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)