Free FORMOSAT-2 Satellite Imagery
Proposals due by March 31, 2014.
From the post:
ISPRS WG VI/5 is delighted to announce the call for proposals for free FORMOSAT-2 satellite data. Sponsored by the National Space Organization, National Applied Research Laboratories (NARLabs-NSPO) and jointly supported by the Chinese Taipei Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing and the Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research (CSRSR), National Central University (NCU) of Taiwan, this research announcement provides an opportunity for researchers to carry out advanced researches and applications in their fields of interest using archived and/or newly acquired FORMOSAT-2 satellite images.
FORMOSAT-2 has a unique daily-revisiting capability to acquire images at a nominal ground resolution of 2 meters (panchromatic) or 8 meters (multispectral). The images are suitable for different researches and applications, such as land-cover and environmental monitoring, agriculture and natural resources studies, oceanography and coastal zone researches, disaster investigation and mitigation support, and others. Basic characteristics of FORMOSAT-2 are listed in Section III of this document and detailed information about FORMOSAT-2 is available at
<http://www.nspo.org.tw>.Interested individuals are invited to submit a proposal according to the guidelines listed below. All topics and fields of application are welcome, especially proposals aiming for addressing issues related to the Societal Beneficial Areas of GEO/GEOSS (Group on Earth Observations/Global Earth Observation System of Systems, Figure 1). Up to 10 proposals will be selected by a reviewing committee. Each selected proposal will be granted 10 archived images (subject to availability) and/or data acquisition requests (DAR) free of charge. Proposals that include members of ISPRS Student Consortium or other ISPRS affiliated personnels as principal investigator (PI) or coinvestigators (CI) will be given higher priorities, so be sure to indicate ISPRS affiliations in the cover sheet of the proposal.
Let’s see, 2 meters, that’s smaller than the average Meth lab. Yes? I have read of trees dying from long term meth labs, those should be more than 2 meters. Other environmental clues to the production of Methamphetamine?
Has your locality thought about data crunching to supplement its traditional law enforcement efforts?
A better investment than small towns buying tanks.
I first saw this in a tweet by TH Schee.