[OSGeo-Discuss] FYI: New optical satellite remote sensing data archeology project: D-Sat Germany mosaic from 1991/later)

[Peter Löwe]

Hello list,

I have been asked to forward this announcement about a new grassroots open data project. The goal of the project is to make historical satellite image data publicly available/accessible from a historical, previously propietary, CD-ROM set from the early 1990s ("D-Sat 1 is a satellite atlas of Germany, consisting of pictures taken by russian COSMOS satellites in 1991").

At the dawn of time (1996), prior to geospatial web services such as OGC, OSM, GoogleMaps, etc. p.p., the D-Sat data were a game changer, as they provided for the first time easy access to aerial and satellite image mosaics for Germany.

The project is still looking for collaborators.

Details and project blog here: https://dsat.igada.de/

Point of contact is Robert Jäschke from HU Berlin (IBI): robert DOT jaeschke AT hu-berlin DOT de

I remember that there was a discussion about this in the early 2000s (?) on the German GRASS User Association (GAV e.V.) and/or FOSSGIS (OSGeo local chapter Germany) lists. 

It would be great if technical access to the historical image mosaics could be now provided by open geospatial tools and services.
 
Another interesting aspect could be the (orphaned?) ownership/copyright status of the data.

Best,
Peter 



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