‘Classification,
‘Computer Program for Radiometric Data Analysis.
CICESE) from August 1992.
The activities related with the undergraduate
level, with the course III.1.1, are being planned
in the Autonomous University of Baja California,
Sede Ensenada, starting the next year, in January
1993.
III.1.7 Teach & Research Integration:
The integration of the student with the research
projects considers different levels:
i) Use of images of the research project for the
laboratory practices, including the ancillary data
existent. All these images correspond to Mexican
Areas under study for Mexican research groups.
ii) Students participate in one aspect of our
research project, for example, Image
Map digitization or a Small
iii) Students incorporate Remote Sensing in their
Master or Ph. D. Thesis. We help students to
obtain sub-images of Landsat Images, existing
in one Governmental Institution, for the
region where they are doing their Master
Thesis or Ph. D. Thesis. The Institution is The
Mexican Institute of Water Technology (IMTA).
III.2 Institutions or Programs Involved.
Our group is very small; during the last years we
were only 3 members supported by the Physics
Department. Now, we are only 2 members because the
other got a fellowship to the Great Britain.
‘All the activities mentioned, including the Long
and Short Term courses, the Research Projects and
the preparation of didactic materials required a
big effort and the collaboration of different
Institutions. In the Figure 3, we show a scheme of
these relations.
In this section we would like to mention them and
say Thanks.
III.2.1. Hardware and Software Facilities.
At the beginning, before 1985, the actual National
Institute of Statistics, Geography and Information
(INEGI) gave us facilities with Computer Time for
the ELAS software that they had installed.
After 1985, in the IBM Scientific Center of MEXICO
we could develop part of our project with the
HLIPS software.
From 1987, we initiated the implementation of our
Research in a Microcomputer system in
collaboration with a small Private Consulting
Company, EMAYEV (Estudios del Medio Ambiente y
Electro-Vehículos S.A. de C.V.).
III.2.2. Hardware & Software Acquisition.
Microcomputer practices were included, in the
Interdisciplinary Courses, from 1990. The software
facilities were provided by EMAYEV and the
microcomputer, by the Coordination of the
Scientific Research of the UNAM.
In 1991, with the support of Grants corresponding
to three UNAM projects; PADEP (Programa de Apoyo a
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Divisiones de Posgrado) FC-9108; Eclipse 11 de
Julio de 1991, and the mentioned DGAPA (Direcciön
General de Personal Académico) IA-IN303389, we
obtained two more microcomputers and
accessories. Also we bought software. A
workstation where the IRAF will run was also
bought but it is not received yet.
III.2.3 Fellowships.
The project IN-303389 included fellowships for
young people to collaborate with our group. New
members, 4, are participating in the different
‘activities related with support to the students
(preparation of new practices, mainly related
with Astronomy, Lectures, and supporting our
projects on Data Analysis), from 1991. Our
colleagues were: Antonio Valencia, María Ladrón de
Guevara, Elena Nikiforova and Bertha Vazquez.
III.2.4 Image & Sub-Image Facilities
In our Research Projects, we need to buy the
"simultaneous" multispectral images. The work of
the students, may need satellite sub-images
from a different region of MEXICO with no money
to buy them. We had found support for
different Institutions. MSS Landsat sub-images,
as it was mentioned before, were obtained
from The Mexican Institute of Water
Technology (IMTA). Meteorological Images, GOES
or TIROS images, are provided by The National
Meteorologic Service (SMN). SPOT IMAGE & CONACYT
gave us some slides and Demonstrative CCT's to
use in the courses. Kosmokarta gave us one printed
image of a zone of Mexico City.
III.3 Zones of MEXICO under study.
III.3.1 Interdisciplinary Laboratory Studies.
The States of MEXICO with zones considered in our
projects (with aerial and spatial multispectral
imagery), are shown in the Figure 4.
III.3.2 Zones related with Students Projects.
The States of MEXICO with zones of interest for
our undergraduate and graduate students, are
shown in the Figure 4.
III.4 Professions or Areas of interest covered
by the Undergraduate and Graduate Students.
The approximate percentage of different
professions of the 1120 participants, including
students, professors or other professionals is
shown in the Figure 5.
IV. CONCLUSIONS.
The activities mentioned in this paper were always
focused from the physical point of view. At the
same time, our work was immersed in a
multidisciplinary environment. In this sense, it
is possible to say that during the last 18 years,
a "small multifaceted seed" was sown. Fortunately,
it is growing. Now, many of our former students
are working on different places of our country,
from Baja California Norte to Chiapas. Most of
them, know about the capabilities of Remote
Sensing and Geographic Information System Methods.
Also, they know how difficult is to use them in a
developing country.