Subject: Satellite Imagery FAQ - Pointer
From: satfaq@pobox.com (Nick Kew)
Date: 18 Dec 1996 13:10:17 GMT
Archive-name: sci/Satellite-Imagery-FAQ/Pointer
Satellite Imagery FAQ
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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* Chopped long and badly outdated contact list.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.
