U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey WTF Core Test Sites Status and Plans WGISS #24, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen/Munich, Germany October 15, 2007 Lyndon R. Oleson, WTF Core Test Sites Lead U.S. Geological Survey Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Sioux Falls, SD

2 WTF Core Test Sites Status and Plans Web site developed and hosted by the USGS has been essentially frozen for over two years. ESA Portal is operational Very few users are accessing the WTF web site Historical and new data providers should be interfacing with ESA Portal and not with WTF USGS disconnecting web site in near future

3 WTF Core Test Sites Status and Plans Recommendations : Close WTF Core Test Sites activity Provide final status and recommendations for continued operations to Plenary Consider evolving effort to a data identification and linkage effort lead by ESA to populate the ESA Portal Possibly transfer leadership to WGCV