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3 September 2001
[Federal Register: July 27, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 145)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Geological Survey
Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC); Public Review of
Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata: Extensions for Remove
Sensing Metadata
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The FGDC is conducting a public review of the draft Content
Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata: Extensions for Remote Sensing
Metadata. An interagency team under the sponsorship of the FGDC
Standards Working Group developed this draft standard over several
years and the FGDC Coordination Group comprised of representatives from
Federal agencies approved releasing this standard for public review.
The FGDC invites software vendors and data users and producers in
public and private sectors to comment on this standard to ensure that
the standard meets their needs.
Comments that address specific issues/changes/additions may result
in revisions to the draft NSDI Content Standard for Digital Geospatial
Metadata: Extensions for Remove Sensing Metadata. After comments have
been evaluated, participants will receive notification of how their
comments were addressed. After formal endorsement of the standard by
the FGDC, the standard and a summary
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analysis of the changes will be made available to the public.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before Friday, August 31, 2001.
ADDRESSES: The draft standard may be downloaded via Internet address
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi?from=leavingFR.html&log=linklog&to=http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/status/csdgm_rs_ex.html
Request for printed copies of the standard should be addressed to
``Extensions for Remote Sensing Metadata,'' FGDC Secretariat (attn:
Julie Binder Maitra), U.S. Geological Survey, 590 National Center,
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, Virginia 20192 or facsimile 703-
648-5755 or Internet at jmaitra@usgs.gov.
Reviewer's comments may be sent to FGDC via Internet mail to gdc-
remotesensing@www.fgdc.gov. Reviewer's comments may also be sent to the
FGDC Secretariat at the above postal address. If sending comments by
postal mail, please send one hardcopy version of the comments and a
softcopy version on 3.5-inch diskette in Microsoft Word or Rich Text
Format. All reviewers are strongly urged to use the template for
sending comments that may be downloaded from Internet address http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi?from=leavingFR.html&log=linklog&to=http://www.fdgc.gov/standards/directives/dir2d.html
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Following is information about the draft
Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata: Extensions for Remote
Sensing Metadata, submitted by the FGDC Standards Working Group:
Objectives: The purpose of this standard is to provide extensions
to the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Content Standard for
Digital Geospatial Metadata (also referred to hereafter as the Metadata
Content Standard) for metadata describing geospatial data obtained from
remote sensing. Efforts are being made to make these extensions
compatible with the framework and content of the ISO metadata standard
now undergoing the approval process, in order that the FGDC standard
can be converted to ISO form for use as remote sensing extensions to
the ISO standard.
Scope: These extensions define content standards for additional
metadata, not defined in the Metadata Content Standard, that are needed
to describe data obtained from remote sensing. They include metadata
describing the sensor, the platform, the method and process of deriving
geospatial information from the raw telemetry, and the information
needed to determine the geographical location of the remotely sensed
data. In addition, metadata to support aggregation, both the components
of an aggregate data set and the larger collection of which a data item
may be a member, will be supported.
Karen Siderelis,
Geographic Information Officer.
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