This OSGeo sample dataset for research, development and education was
prepared thanks to agencies providing public access to geospatial
data. We are especially grateful to the North Carolina (NC) Center for
Geographic Information and Analysis, Wake County GIS, NC State Climate
Office, NC Department of Transportation, USGS and NASA for making
their data available.  Advice and assistance with the data set by
Julia Harrell, Silvia Terziotti, Robert Austin, Adeola Dokun, Jeff
Essic, and Doug Newcomb, and computer system assistance by Micah Colon
are greatly appreciated. Martin Spott is acknowedged for processing
of geonames.org data for NC.

The processing of MODIS time series (separate MAPSET) was kindly
supported by telascience.org, we are grateful to John Graham for
granting access to these computational resources.


August 2007                                          Helena Mitasova
                                                      Markus Neteler
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