U.S. Department of the Interior

U.S. Geological Survey

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WGISS #24, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen/Munich, GermanyOctober 15, 2007

Lyndon R. Oleson, WTF Core Test Sites LeadU.S. Geological SurveyCenter for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS)Sioux Falls, SD

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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

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Recommendations:Close WTF Core Test Sites activityProvide final status and recommendations for

continued operations to PlenaryConsider evolving effort to a data identification

and linkage effort lead by ESA to populate the ESA Portal

Possibly transfer leadership to WGCV