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Eric Wood / Saud Amer
USGS /EROS
The USGS Afghanistan Website and Geospatial
ClearinghouseMODIFY
Presentation
1. Accomplishments (past 6 months)
2. Plans for Rest of 2006 (and beyond)
3. Economic Relevance
4. Immediate Issues
1. Accomplishments (past 6 months)
• Continued staging of datasets
• Providing assistance for project webpage development
• Data delivery tool development
• Other website maintenance
Continued Staging of Datasets - Examples
• USGS Quads
• Landsat (new and revised)
• DVDs
• Bob Bohannon’s photo collection
• Aster 1A (almost….)
• Odds and ends (website maintenance)
Data delivery tool
development
Project Website Pages Development Assistance
(e.g., Hazards transition from web fact sheet format)
2. Plans for Rest of 2006 (and beyond)
• Continued staging of datasets
• National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) workshop
• Improve public site
• Univ. of Nebraska – Omaha (UNO) archiving contract
• Streamline website
• Archiving assessment
Continued Staging of Datasets (e.g., airborne geophysics)
• 6 terrabytes of raw data• Options (raw, processed,
clipped/mosaiced)– Silo storage, tile access– Silo storage, one layer
seamless access (most likely)
– Seamless storage and access
NSDI Workshop
• In collaboration with AGCHO and Central Statistics Office
• Will invite local partners, relevant agencies, NGOS (local and international)
• Tentatively scheduled for July, 2006
Improve Public Website
• Still poorly developed
• Incomplete project representation
Univ. of Nebraska–Omaha (UNO) Contract
• Postponed from last year
• Existing archive of maps, documents
• Contract to scan, organize, stage(??)
• Example:
Streamlining Website
• Improve speed
• Reduce overhead
• Investigate possibility of Google Earth access
• Present delivery system
• For future transfer of system to AGS
• Investigate possibility of Google Earth access
Archiving Assessment
• Presently carrying out short-term archiving– Backed up , available, will not get “lost”– To be removed at end of project
• Need to determine which data should be archived as USGS data for “long-term”, i.e., 100 years, with replacement media, etc.
3. Economic Relevance
• Value of access to datasets to USGS, Govt. of Afghanistan ?
• Value of NSDI to Afghanistan ?
• Similar attributes for both:– Ready access to key spatial data – Redundancy eliminated (i.e. knowledge of datasets
eliminates unnecessary repeat development)– Data support geologic/water resource development
4. Immediate Issues
• Scope of airborne geophysics project archiving and distribution
• Scope of NSDI effort in Afghanistan
• Registration (non-project requests)
• Calendar (updating)
• Long-term archiving
• Timing of transition to AGS (including extent of collaboration with BGS)