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Public Service CAST staff members are regularly involved in a variety of activities that directly and indirectly benefit Arkansans, from its work with Arkansas' high school students who participate in the EAST Initiative to making geographic information data easily available to the general public through the CAST website and the GeoStor data warehouse. CAST staff members respond to hundreds of requests for assistance or demonstrations each year from sources ranging from University of Arkansas students to rural 4H clubs. CAST's public service mission includes talks, demonstrations, workshops, meetings, presentations, and responses to requests for a variety of types of information. Some of CAST's major public service efforts for FY 04-05 are described below. Cast’s new webpage: www.cast.uark.edu CAST’S WEBSITE. Established in 1994, CAST’s website (www.cast.uark.edu) was designed to provide access to maps and spatial data, to provide information on the Center's research projects, and serve as an informational resource in the areas of GIS, remote sensing, photogrammetry, spatial technologies, historic preservation, and archaeology. This award-winning site was developed and designed by Snow L. Winters. With its recent update, CAST’s website better reflects the variety of the Center’s activities and provide easy access to frequently requested data. CAST’s goal to introduce and provide GIS technologies to the widest audience possible continues to drive the development of this website. The Center's website continues to expand in the quality and quantity of data it contains and in the ease of access to that data. While most website accesses come from the U.S., the site is utilized by students, the public, and researchers from around the world. The CAST website has an average of 32,000 hits per day. This number has remained consistently high since its dramatic rise in 2002 from 19,000. Along with the high number of hits for the website, the number of other sites with links to CAST has risen. Currently there are 24,765 other websites that link to CAST. This number has risen over 18,000 links since 2000. For example, some of these sites that have links to CAST are the Center for Global and Regional CENTER FOR ADVANCED SPATIAL TECHNOLOGIES 45
Environmental Research, Universiteit Utrecht, and the New York State GIS Clearinghouse. data search and delivery, support for multiple enterprise applications, and an integrated Oracle enterprise-class distributed database architecture. The system currently includes all publicly available location-based geodata for the State of Arkansas. Slide shows are available for some areas of interest within CAST’s website. GeoStor can be found via CAST’s webpage at: www.cast.uark.edu Google is the top search engine in the U.S. Having a website that is readily accessible can make or break a site, so the ultimate goal of any website is to be ranked within the top 30 search results. For Google, this is determined by how many other sites are linked to the site. With this high number of links (24,765), CAST has achieved rankings in the top 30 search results. GEOSTOR. GeoStor is a comprehensive, enterprise geospatial geodata system, including web-based GeoStor is the nation’s first seamless statewide geospatial database that allows heterogeneous access to spatial data, so that users can easily locate, access, and use multiple scales of over two terabytes of raster and vector spatial data. Although more than fifteen states have digital data warehouses, none have the versatility and relative ease of use, due to the seamless nature of data representation and underlying architecture within GeoStor (see the Research section for more information). BOARD MEMBERSHIP. Cast members serve on numerous national, state, and local boards. Jack Cothren serves on the Editorial Board of Earth Imaging Journal and the Board of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Fred Limp serves on the Boards of the Open Geospatial Interoperability Institute, the Oracle North America Spatial Interest Group, the EAST Board, the Arkansas State Land Information 46 CENTER FOR ADVANCED SPATIAL TECHNOLOGIES
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