Contact Ground Truth Asia

Reader mail is welcome at Ground Truth Asia, and it is read by the editorial team that writes the guides. The magazine covers a working field, and its readers are often the first to know when a page has drifted from reality: an archive moved, a satellite decommissioned, a conference edition announced, a method superseded. Writing in is the fastest way to have that fixed for everyone.

When to write

Corrections are the highest-value mail the magazine receives. If a date, a mission fact or an access rule in any guide no longer matches the agency's own publications, say so and cite the source, and the page will be amended with credit unless you ask otherwise. Suggestions of public sources are equally welcome: the guides to free satellite imagery and to choosing satellite data for work in Asia exist to route readers to open portals, and new or better ones appear every year. Questions about what an article means are answered when they are specific, since a precise question about one passage usually improves that passage for the next reader. Story leads about Asian remote sensing applications, particularly ones with observable public results, are noted for future coverage in the sections on land, water and cities and methods and community.

When not to write

A few categories save everyone time. The magazine does not redistribute satellite imagery, run data searches for individual projects or broker access to restricted national archives; the guides explain how those steps are done, and the doing stays with the reader. It does not publish sponsored content, guest posts, link exchanges or press releases, and requests along those lines receive no reply. It cannot forward messages to the Asian Association on Remote Sensing or to any agency described in its pages, since it has no affiliation with them, a position stated on the about page.

How to write

Send email to the editorial address, contact at this domain, with a subject line that names the page in question. One topic per message keeps handling reliable, and a source link beats a paragraph of argument. Expect an answer within two weeks during normal operation, faster for corrections to factual claims.