Countries are well aware that the possession of satellite remotely sensed data and the ability to analyze them gives others power to affect their resource development. Data from the meteorological satellites are generally not in question because they are low resolution and are widely perceived by other countries to be of little use in exploiting a country’s resources. Private ownership of a land remote-sensing system may heighten suspicions that such data would be used to enable interests outside the sensed country to gain a competitive advantage, or that information on crop conditions or military activities of States might be sold preferentially to political adversaries.