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A Profile of the Workforce at the USGS EROS DATA CENTER

A Profile of the Workforce at the USGS EROS DATA CENTER. John Dwyer Raytheon ITSS dwyer@usgs.gov. USGS EROS Data Center Mission Statement. To promote new uses, new users, and new understanding of land information, so that others can better understand our planet

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A Profile of the Workforce at the USGS EROS DATA CENTER

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  1. A Profile of the Workforce at the USGS EROS DATA CENTER John Dwyer Raytheon ITSS dwyer@usgs.gov

  2. USGS EROS Data CenterMission Statement • To promote new uses, new users, and new understanding of land information, so that others can better understand our planet • To ensure scientists, researchers, businesses, decision makers, and the public have ready access to the land information they need • To safeguard and expand the world’s largest civilian archive of remotely sensed land data

  3. USGS EROS Data Center • Home of the: • National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive • Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center • World Data Center-A for Remotely Sensed Land Data • USGS Sales Data Base • United Nations Environment Programme / Global Resource Information Data Base

  4. Department of the Interior

  5. Land Remote Sensing from Space: Acquisition to Applications Earth Observation Satellites USGS National Archive Challenge Data Applications • Land Cover • Fire Danger Rating • DOI Land Management • Natural Hazards • Coastal Zones • Environmental Monitoring • Emergency Response • Declassified Systems • Landsat 1-5 • NOAA - POES • Shuttle Radar • Landsat 7 (1999) • NASA-EOS (1999) • High Resolution Systems • Preserve • Provide Access • Process • Reproduce • Distribute • Hold in Trust Expanding to over 18 million images of the earth!

  6. USGS EROS Data Center • Expertise • Customer services • Information systems development and technologies • Remote sensing and its applications • Earth system sciences - terrestrial, ecosystem, global change • Software development and maintenance • Systems engineering • Data management • High speed communications • Image processing • Product generation, digital and photographic

  7. USGS EROS Data CenterStaffing Profile

  8. USGS EROS Data Center Staffing Locations Alaska FO Whitefish MT  Rapid City SD  EDC Denver CO  Greenbelt MD Menlo Park CA  Washington DC  Niger  Honduras  Venezuela  Kenya  Zimbabwe

  9. EROS Data CenterStaffing Educational Levels 72% of Government and Raytheon staff have degrees.

  10. Workforce Characteristics – USGS/TSSC 421Total Employees

  11. Workforce Characteristics NASA/ECS Raytheon ITSS 44 Total Employees

  12. Science and Applications Branch Staff Expertise

  13. Activities • Investigate new technologies and applications • Develop prototype products and services • Participate in national and international research • Participate in collaborative research and applications projects • Perform requirements analysis • Promote technology transfer • Provide technical/scientific support

  14. Lake Victoria - Water Hyacinth Famine Early Warning (FEWS) International Program • Ecological Monitoring (Senegal) • Early Warning Systems (Sub-Saharan & Southern African Countries) • Developing Country Applications (Madagascar) • Projects for Sustainable Development (Latin America) • International Development Technical Assistance (Greater Horn, Mozambique, Latin America) • UNEP/GRID

  15. Research and Applications Program Projects: • Electro-optical Studies • Microwave Systems • Technique Development Studies • Topographic Studies • Arctic Studies • Carbon Cycle • Environmental Monitoring (05-01-01)

  16. Land CoverCharacterization Program • Guiding Principles • Compatible with previous work • Built on partnerships • Flexible data base strategy • Multi-Resolution • Needs-Based and User-Driven • Dynamic, with Monitoring Capability • Integrated Strategy

  17. Develop Prototype Products Oregon Land Cover • Multi-scale • National and Global • Historical

  18. Land Cover Characterization Program Components • Global Seasonal Land Characteristics AVHRR • Regional Land Cover (30 m) • Landsat TM • Urban Land Use/Land Cover Aerial Photography

  19. Topographic Science Program Projects: • Elevation Data Research • Global • National • Hydrologic Derivatives and Applications • NED-H Development and Applications • HYDRO1k Development and Applications

  20. Education • Earth or Natural Sciences, Geography • Physics/Geophysics • Mathematics/Statistics • Principles of Remote Sensing • Image Interpretation • Digital Image Processing • Geographic Information Systems Workforce Training -- Preparation

  21. Experience • Airborne and satellite data • Image processing software • Radiative transfer models • GIS software • Statistical analysis software • Programming • (C++, object-oriented, HTML/XML) • Windows, Unix, and/or Linux OS Workforce Training -- Preparation

  22. Summary • Academic training – theoretical basis • Practical experience – real data, tools, • and problems • Strong communications skills – written • and oral • Commitment to teamwork – projects • Ability to multi-task Workforce Training -- Preparation

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