Eric Wood / Saud Amer USGS /EROS The USGS Afghanistan Website and Geospatial Clearinghouse MODIFY

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)