[okfn-discuss] WisconsinView satellite data, now under CC0

[Mr. Puneet Kishor]

My friend Dr. Sam Batzli, Director, WisconsinView, has made available  
the program's more than 6 Terabytes of satellite imagery under the CC0  
Protocol. Here is a "press release"

Since 2004, WisconsinView (http://www.wisconsinview.org) has made  
aerial photography and satellite imagery of Wisconsin available to the  
public for free over the web. As part of the AmericaView consortium,  
WisconsinView supports access and use of these imagery collections  
through education, workforce development, and research. Starting June  
30, 2009, WisconsinView is making available all of its more than 6  
Terabytes of imagery data under the new CC0 Protocol provided by  
Creative Commons. The CC0 (pronounced CC-Zero) Protocol waives any  
rights in a dataset, ensuring that all of the dataset is available to  
anyone without encumbrance of any kind. More information on CC0 is  
available at http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CC0, and the reasoning  
behind the protocol is described at http://sciencecommons.org/projects/publishing/open-access-data-protocol/ 
. Further questions about WisconsinView may be directed to Dr. Sam  
Batzli, Director, WisconsinView at sabatzli at wisc.edu or Puneet Kishor,  
Science Commons Fellow (Geospatial Data) at punkish at creativecommons.org.


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Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org
Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org
Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org
Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor
Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu
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