long run, it is the giving of proper consideration to statements 
and factors such as those listed in Table 2 that is at the very The 
heart of remote sensing technology transfer and acceptance in the ble 
years to come. of 
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K. There will be a Greater Borrowing by Future Remote Sensing 
Scientists of Various Applicable Techniques and Procedures res 
that Have Been Developed in Other Disciplines. fea 
In any discipline that is relatively new and fast-growing there on 
is likely to develop the belief that each problem encountered is ste 
an entirely new one, the likes of which have never before been top 
encountered by man or beast. Again, if my perception is correct, tec 
remote sensing is among the disciplines that have suffered from Nat 
this belief - one that employs the "not-invented-here" syndrome 
in rejecting worthy contributions from other disciplines. It is 
entirely probable that at this very moment many of the problems M. 
that remote sensing scientists are seeking to solve have already | 
been solved, in only a slightly modified context, by workers in | 
other disciplines. To the extent that this is true we should even Int 
now be testing the applicability to remote sensing image analysis pla 
of (1) various search techniques used by astronomers or micro- the 
scopists as they attempt systematically to search for information; bui 
(2) various counting or enumeration techniques used by doctors in are 
determing the number of red and white blood corpuscles in a and 
patient's blood sample; (3) various fatigue-reducing techniques a s 
used by industrial supervisors to ensure that their workers who pos 
are engaged in highly repetitive tasks will perform acceptably shi 
well throughout an 8-hour work day; and (4) various "convergence hei: 
of evidence techniques" used by lawyers to maximize the prospect the 
that a deduction made is the correct one. in 
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Such a mass borrowing of information and techniques from other 
disciplines should not be regarded as a shameful practice, but 
as a highly intelligent one. For those remote sensing scientists NH 
who nevertheless might suffer pangs of conscience from engaging ( 
in this practice, adequate consolation should be found in the : 
following thought: For each field or discipline from which remote 
sensing scientists might borrow information of the types indicated In : 
above (and for many other fields as well) repayment many times as 
over is likely to be offered in the near future - the reciprocity be « 
in this case being in the form of remote sensing derived infor- In ° 
mation that could be used to great advantage in these other fields ack: 
or disciplines. seel 
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One of the first to express, in highly positive terms, this concept se 
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of mass borrowing of information as a means of progressing toward 
the desired result, was Aristotle, who reportedly said some 2400 for 
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years ago: "The search for truth is in one way difficult and in 
another easy, for no one can master it fully nor escape it wholly; itei 
yet each, through his own efforts, adds a bit of information, and con 
from the mass of knowledge thus assembled there arises a certain 
grandeur". Ims 
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