‘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.