I can't comment on the outcome, but I can tell you what we can do. In forestry we can measure the infestation of the pine beetle. You see it with your own eye from space, but our RADARSAT-2 can see it, and you can watch that propagation from west to east.
In hydrology it's something we don't do right now, but we could easily measure the flux of the spring where water rises six feet and then watch where it goes. You need four assets to do that, but we can do that. We can do habitat monitoring. We did it in Haiti. We tracked dengue fever, so we know where the mosquitoes are. We can't see the mosquitoes, obviously, but we see their habitats and we send DARTs to fix that.
You can't do everything with respect to biodiversity, but we can do quite a bit. We can do geology. We have a 3-D map of the earth. We don't have it, but we're developing a 3-D map of Canada. Add that to the fact that an instrument will be flying soon that Canada has major participation in that measures soil moisture down to half a metre. We have something called CloudSat, where Canada has the klystron, which is the heart of that instrument. It measures all the precipitation in a cloud, and it's going over every spot in Canada once a day.
If you do all this together, you start having the data that allows you to describe biodiversity, to work issues in hydrology, to work what happens when soil moisture changes its humidity context by so much. The next thing you know the modellers take all that data...and they're starting to get something realistic.
Canada is well positioned to do that. Our long-term space plan talks not about answering the question, but providing the data that allows those individuals to answer the question, and that's where we're coming from.