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

Satellite Imagery FAQ
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Satellite Imagery for Earth Observation

October: no proper update (no time ahead of the posting date - sorry)
Some notes here:
  (1) The "Geoscience Journals" entry points to a service which appears
      to be having problems (from several reports), and should be removed.
      There is another somewhat similar service to be added (recently
      announced by Elsevier) - see news:3252F681.3BE@elsevier.nl
  (2) OGC Earth Imaging Working Group http://www.opengis.org/
  (3) Electronic Atlas Newsletter http://www.electronic-atlas.com/
  (4) The Interactive FAQ software is now operational again.   The contents
      at the time of writing is merely this FAQ in plain-HTML format,
      but will be growing during the next month.

Last Modified: September 15th 1996:

   * Rewrote credits section (this has always been a TBD).
   * Added ADEOS reference (NASDA) to satellites list
   * Added Wim's collection re satellite orbits.
   * Fixed quite a lot of old URLs, including some of NASA's major sites
     (thanks to inputs from Liz Johnson and - as always - Wim Bakker).
   * Had a system crash while doing the update :-(

Note (update from June/July Notes)

The WWW addresses for this document have changed again, but the Interactive
FAQ remains out of service for the time being.

The HTML version of this FAQ may be read at Web addresses, including:
http://www.geog.nott.ac.uk/remote/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.

