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Subject:        News Release: TerraLook Coming Soon
Date:   Mon, 8 Jan 2007 15:30:29 -0500
From:   Karen Renee Wood <[log in to unmask]>
To:     MAPS-L




News Release

For release: January 8, 2007
Contact: Gene Fosnight, 605-594-605, [log in to unmask]

*TerraLook Coming Soon*

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Center for Earth Resources Observation
and Science (EROS), in cooperation with the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA), is pleased to announce the upcoming release
of the TerraLook data product. TerraLook consists of a collection of
JPEG images created from _ASTER images_ from the Land Processes
Distributed Active Archive Center and _Landsat Orthorectified_ images
from the USGS EROS archive.

The TerraLook images are user-selected, geo-registered, simulated
natural color bundled with footprints of the images and
standards-compliant metadata that describe the collection. Each
collection will be delivered as a single zipped file. Sample TerraLook
data products are illustrated below.



TerraLook products will be available at no charge, and may be selected
and ordered through the USGS Global Visualization Viewer (GloVIS),
_http://glovis.usgs.gov/_. The expected release date is January 2007.

TerraLook builds on the success of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s
Protected Area Archive project (_http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/paa.asp_)
with additional support from The Nature Conservancy, the World Bank
Development Grant Facility Program’s Inter-American Biodiversity
Information Network Connectivity Project, the U.S. State Department, the
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Amazon Protected Area Network project
and the IUCN – the World Conservation Union.

*For More Information*
USGS Center for EROS Phone: (800) 252-4547
Customer Services TDD: (605) 594-6933
Mundt Federal Building Fax: (605) 594-6589
Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57198-0001 Email: [log in to unmask]
EROS website: _http://eros.usgs.gov/_








Karen Wood
Public Affairs Specialist
U.S. Geological Survey, Office of Communications
703-648-4447
Fax: 703-648-4466
Email: [log in to unmask]