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sensing efforte and promote the discipline. I am not sure how well we have 
performed this latter füncttont We have had some effective educators who 
have passed on useful information to the land manager -- such men as Gerd 
Hildebrandt, Donald Stellingwerf, Robert Heller, John Howard, Victor Zsilinszky 
and others in the natural resources area -- but we need many more to follow 
them. In the United States, many of the experts in the use of remote sensing 
of natural resources are near the stage of retiring and there are not nearly 
enough experts to replace them, especially specialists grounded in the basics 
of practical systems for getting a job done. 
We have had two innovative workshops recently on remote sensing education 
which could be of help. These were the Conference on Remote Sensing Education- 
CORSE 1978 (Welch, 1980) and CORSE-1981 (Davis, 1981; 41405884 Lillesand, 1982). 
The proceedings of these conferences, available through the United States 
National Technical Information Service, have much useful information for remote 
sensing educators and any others who wish to learn more about remote sensing. 
During the latest conference Dahlberg and Jensen presented the results of a 
survey of remote sensing type courses gant in Colleges and Universities in 
the United States. A glaring deficiency surfaced in this study, especially 
one that we in natural resources may be concerned about, and that is the 
limited number of courses taught in the natural resource or agriculture areas 
(10% only). Meyer et al. (1981) had earlier highlighted this issue for forestry 
schools when they pointed out that less than 60% of the accredited forestry 
schools required adequate training in aerial photo interpretation. What more 
could we do to promote the practical use of remote sensing than to insure that 
our managers are adequately trained? 
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