1 Attachment A USGS EROS Data Center U.S. Geological Survey Department of the Interior EROS Data Center

2 Attachment A USGS EROS Data Center Who Are We?

3 Attachment A USGS EROS Data Center People Who Fly Satellites People Who Fly Satellites

4 Attachment A USGS EROS Data Center People Who Archive Earth Images

5 Attachment A USGS EROS Data Center People Who provide data to the public

6 Attachment A USGS EROS Data Center People Who Think and Work Globally Loss of Wetland in Southern Iraq

7 Attachment A USGS EROS Data Center People Who Respond to Disasters May 2001 June 2002 Hayman Fire, CO

8 Attachment A USGS EROS Data Center People Who Study Earth Changes Las Vegas in 1973 (population 358,400) Las Vegas in 2000 (population 1,563,280) Urban Sprawl

9 Attachment A USGS EROS Data Center People who reach out & educate

10 Attachment A USGS EROS Data Center Who Are We? Computer Scientists Geographers Computer Scientists Geographers Network Engineers Info Technologists Geologists Data Base Administrators Geologists Data Base Administrators Records Managers System Engineers Records Managers System Engineers Accountants Electrical Engineers Accountants Electrical Engineers Foresters Biologists Physicists Foresters Biologists Physicists Hydrologists Chemists Project Managers

11 Attachment A USGS EROS Data Center Who Are We? 680 People 680 People Located in over a dozen locations worldwide Working for 14 employers Working together: To promote new users and uses of land remote sensing data To ensure ready access to land remote sensing data To safeguard and expand the National Archive of land remote sensing data

12 Attachment A USGS EROS Data Center Changes to USGS Geospatial Programs and Services August 17, Geospatial Information Office (GIO)…unify and integrate the elements of our geospatial programs and services 2. National Geospatial Programs Office 3. EDC “will be elevated to the status” of “national capability” 4. Geography Discipline will focus efforts on….research and applications

13 Attachment A USGS EROS Data Center National Capabilities: “activities that represent unique science capabilities that are not replicated elsewhere in the bureau.” Unique: EDC’s combination of engineering and scientific expertise collocated with the National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive. As a national capability, EDC will have increased visibility and opportunity to work across the organization in support Bureau and Department programs.

14 Attachment A USGS EROS Data Center Capabilities  Interdisciplinary scientific investigations from local to international scale and scope  Multi-mission, land remote sensing data collection  Data preservation, access, and distribution  Remote sensing education, training, and technical assistance  Integrated information technology and systems engineering  Synthesis and analysis of geospatial information and on-line support services

15 Attachment A USGS EROS Data Center “The time is now right and urgent to apply space technology towards the solutions of many pressing natural resource problems being compounded by population and industrial growth.” Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall, 1966