ences of the GDSS can provide benefits to fields other than 
remote sensing. 
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
Parts of this work are being funded by Project l/task 4 
(Parallel Processing Strategies For Large Image Data Sets) of 
the Austrian ‘Fond zur Förderung  wissenschaftlicher 
Forschung" (FWF) research program ‘Theory and 
applications of digital image processing and pattern 
recognition’ and by the Space Research Programme of the 
Austrian Academy of Sciences. 
Special thanks go to the CACI Products Company and to 
their coordinator for university programmes, Caalie Ellis, 
who supported this project with a temporary license to the 
COMNET III network simulator. 
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