[Esip-preserve] Provenance for Data Created With Proprietary Software

[Bruce Barkstrom]

I was researching "orthorectification" a few weeks ago
and ran across a rather bothersome reference that
suggested companies doing aerial surveys may keep
details of the algorithms for this process proprietary
in order to protect what they regard as their trade
secrets.  I'll get the specific reference later, but from
my standpoint, hiding details of the algorithms means
that it is impossible to replicate the details of the
processes applied to the data or to verify the correctness
of the algorithms.  In the long term, this means that
such data should only be published in the Journal of
Irreproducible Results.  It also creates some rather
interesting pleasantries for provenance.

Bruce B.
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