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    Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata: Extensions for Remote Sensing Metadata Document number

FGDC-STD-012-2002

Maintenance Authority

NASA

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.

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FGDC Standards  Working Group

Project history

Document
Version
Date
CustodianProposal

1998-10-21
FGDC Standards Working GroupPublic Review
Draft

2000-12-21
FGDC SecretariatFGDC-endorsed
standard

2002-10-08
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