As a future objective, the author believes it is imperative that end users of spatial data open strong 
lines of communication with designers of satellite retrieval systems, mapping agencies, and data 
archivists and distributors to establish critical needs in research, whether it entail ecology, economics, 
demographics, politics, etc. Future data sets should be scaled around the processes they are designed 
to measure. 
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