Action items from this meeting may be found by following this link. Go to this site. The group, by virtue of the membership of department heads, allocates resources to the various data efforts. A lot of discussion about DAAC data set support and the resources needed. The priority on these satellite sensors could restrict resources available to heritage data sets.
Education is the dominant sector of the user community.
No registration required of users although encouraged. Access by anonymous ftp exhibited a huge increase in 1999. Further to the above request there was discussion as to how to require journal editors to reference data sets properly. Not solutions were found. Satellite check out continues, about 20 days behind.