and cultural resource management are especially 
important. In the developing countries, such research 
still appears to be a luxury since there is a general 
paucity of manpower and all human resources are 
geared to coping with inventorying and cataloging the 
mass of cultural resources. 
8. For developing nations, the challenge is multi 
faceted, involving many of the items above. Vitually 
all of these countries are mainly in the survey stage 
of assessing their resources and have neither the 
mechanisms nor the funds to employ the more sophis 
ticated management techniques practiced in European 
countries. Moreover, much of the survey work is 
accomplished by foreign investigators and is sporad 
ically applied in time and space. Remote sensing 
applications planned for these areas might well 
include cultural resources considerations and inves 
tigators planning work there would do a great service 
by attempting to incorporate cultural resources 
approaches along with the traditional ones relating 
to land-use, water resources, mineral exploitation, 
and forest or grassland management. Training programs 
geared for developing countries have generally not 
approached these resources in any meaningful way, 
so the time is ripe for planning the introduction of 
the topic. 
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Lipe, W.D. 1984. Value and meaning in cultural 
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5 CONCLUDING REMARKS 
The non-renewable nature of cultural resources and 
the numerous threats converging on their well-being 
in the decades to come makes the matter of resource 
management all the more critical. Although their 
value may vary from place to place, all nations and 
peoples have some recognition that the rights of the 
past to exist is philosophically continuous with a 
respect for the rights of the future (Lipe, 1984). 
All scientists, resource managers and indeed all 
human beings, have a stake in the business of cul 
tural resources management. We have attempted to 
identify some of the challenges facing the remote 
sensing community within the cultural resources 
realm in a broad way with the hope that they will 
ultimately become matters of routine concern in all 
corners of the World. We have also suggested some of 
the complexities involved with a few examples. The 
more remote areas of the planet are no longer hidden 
from the view of remote sensing "eyes". As the earth 
is the home of mankind, it is appropriate that we 
should apply relevant remote sensing technologies to 
discover and manage its ancient or historic cultural 
features and landscapes. 
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