West Virginia View A West Virginia Remote Sensing Consortium

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West Virginia ViewA West Virginia Remote Sensing
Consortium

• Timothy Warner1M. Duane Nellis1,2
• Christopher Whitmore1
• 1Geology and Geography
• 2Eberly College of Arts and Sciences
• West Virginia University

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AmericaView

• Umbrella Organization
• Established as a 501(c)(3) non-profit in 2003
• 15 StateView consortia members
• Sponsored by USGS, 1.6 million dollars funding
  annually
• Aim is to grow to 50 StateView consortia
• Mission advance remote sensing through
  education, research, outreach and technology
  transfer

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West Virginia View Partners

• Academic WVU
• Geology and Geography
• Biology
• WV GIS Technical Center
• State
• WV DEP
• Federal Non-Profit
• Canaan Valley Institute

WV View is currently working with additional
state colleges that have an interest in remote
sensing
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WV View Long Term Aims

• Vision Build a WV remote sensing community
• Statewide remote sensing cooperation
• Infrastructure development access to data,
  computer resources, and field equipment.
• Student education and opportunities
• Community outreach activities
• Theoretical and applied research relevant to West
  Virginia.

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www.wvview.org
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On-line State Image Archive
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County Satellite DEM Data Sets
Ohio County
Ohio County Landsat False Color Image
30 meter pixels
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Web Access May 1 2003 to April 30 2004

• Average data transfer per day 4.1 GB/day
• Users per day 53
• Unique IP addresses 5974
• Hits on files 33,450

Visitors per day
May 03
Dec 03
May 04
Date
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Web Access May 1 2003 to April 30 2004
.org2

• Average data transfer per day 4.1 GB/day
• Users per day 53
• Unique IP addresses 5974
• Hits on files 33,450

.gov2
.com33
.edu24
.net
.net34
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Appalachian Remote Sensing Conference May 14,
2003. West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
You are invited to attend the 2003 Appalachian
Remote Sensing Conference. The conference will
be of interest to geospatial professionals and
students in government, the private sector, and
education. Deadline for abstracts April 4,
2003 Sponsored by West Virginia View
www.wvview.org
NASA Presentation to Dean Nellis, WVU
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Future Developments

• Grow the Image Archive
• Complete the County Data Sets
• Add additional Landsat images
• Sponsor remote sensing education, internship, and
  research opportunities
• Add new academic remote sensing partners
• Let us know if there are ways we can serve you
  better