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chettri@huey.udel.edu (Expressio Veri) writes:

>DUNCAN>group to be useful........

>I agree with this. 

>Also, as a request, I am looking for satellite image data with 
>associated ground truth. Does anyone know of an archive site
>with such data? Or, does anyone on this net  have such data that
>they will be willing to share? I'm working on neural nets and
>satellite image classification and would be willing to pass on
>results, experiences etc.

>I'l be also willing to open up  some kind of archive site if there is 
>sufficient satellite data available.

>Samir

Sufficient!
What sort of disk space do you have?  Surely anyone doing serious satellite
remote sensing has many GBytes of data, and they keep most of it off line.

I could send you some data, it would be Meteosat Thermal Infra Red.  The ground
truth is all rainfall data as we use statistical relationships to estimate rainfall
for parts of Africa.  A bit unfair on the network though sending satellite data
from the UK.

As for this idea of a new remote sensing group.  What is it that you want to discuss
which is part of remote sensing but not image processing, geography, agriculture,
meteorology?   I think the 'remote sensors' should stay here, sure not everyone
understands everything, thats why this whole news thing is here.  Then again if
you want to talk about methods for collecting ground truth for crop yields,
perhaps this isn't the best place.

Michael Saunby.  Reading University Meteorology Dept.  M.Saunby@reading.ac.uk
/ I'm not a meteorologist so no weather questions please! /

-- 
	Michael Saunby