Subject: Satellite Imagery FAQ - Pointer
Date: 17 Mar 1997 11:24:30 GMT
Summary: Satellite Imagery for Earth Observation (Pointer)
oleum:10075 sci.geo.satellite-nav:37160 comp.answers:24928 sci.answers:6109 news.answers:97367

Archive-name: sci/Satellite-Imagery-FAQ/Pointer

Satellite Imagery FAQ
=====================

Satellite Imagery for Earth Observation

   Last Modified: December 13th 1996:
   _The updates have been rather sporadic since September - sorry._
     * Removed apparently nonfunctional "Geoscience Journals" server;
       added some new references for journal information.
     * Chopped long and badly outdated contact list. Left in the
       reference to the original it was copied from.
     * Updated references for downloadable assessment software
       (Kappa/Entropy).
     * Various miscellaneous updates from the backlog, including Web
       references.
     * The Interactive FAQ software is now operational again at
       http://pobox.com/%7Esatfaq/ I'm looking to use it to
       'democratise' this document (i.e. encourage direct contributions
       which will automatically ingested), but my other FAQ - which is
       much shorter and simpler than this one - is leading the way in
       terms of contents.

NOTE: a server which was dead for several days appears to have killed
November's posting - sorry.   Also I've made some changes to the
posting scripts: apologies in advance if it screws up.

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The HTML version of this FAQ may be read at Web addresses, including:
http://www.geog.nott.ac.uk/remote/satfaq.html
http://atlas.esrin.esa.it:8000/lib/satfaq.html

and the "faqlib":
http://www.faqlib.com/
http://www.ba-karlsruhe.de/faqlib/
http://www.vol.it/mirror/faqlib/

It can also be retrieved by email from the SATFAQ autoresponder.
Send blank email to satfaq@pobox.com for details.

The plain text version is available:
  (1) on news.answers and other newsgroups (see below)
  (2) by anonymous ftp from rtfm.mit.edu and its mirror sites.
  (3) by email from the SATFAQ or RTFM autoresponders - see below.

The RTFM archive name is sci/Satellite-Imagery-FAQ, or it may be
found under the sci.* newsgroups listed below.  Note that, for
technical reasons, it is NOT archived under the group comp.infosystems.gis

To retrieve it from RTFM:
(1) By FTP:
        ftp rtfm.mit.edu
           cd /pub/usenet/news.answers/sci/Satellite-Imagery-FAQ
           get part1 (etc - up to part5)
(2) By email: send email to
          mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu
     with the following in the body of your message:
           send usenet/news.answers/sci/Satellite-Imagery-FAQ/part1
           (or part2, ..., part5)

The full document is posted to the following Usenet groups:
.comp.infosystems.gis
.sci.geo.meteorology
.sci.image.processing
.sci.geo.eos
.sci.answers
.news.answers

Posting to comp.infosystems.gis is as a single document, to ensure its
rejection by the GIS-L gateway and avoid flooding list subscribers mailboxes.
GIS-L subscribers should see this pointer, but not the FAQ itself!

Nick Kew
satfaq@pobox.com (autoresponder - send blank email for details)

disclaimer: I'm posting as a private individual - 
.    not representing my employer or Client.

