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Source: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2001_register&docid=01-18748-filed

    [Federal Register: July 27, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 145)]
    [Notices]
    [Page 39188-39189]
    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.
    [FR Doc. 01-18748 Filed 7-26-01; 8:45 am]
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