IAEA: ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS ON MAPPING PRODUCT

S E C R E T UNVIE VIENNA 000165 SIPDIS IO/T FOR GOLDSTEIN; ISN/RA FOR NEPHEW; ISN/MNSA FOR COCKERHAM; CIA FOR BRANIGAN, KONKEL; NGA/OIPE FOR PLANERT E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/16/2033 TAGS: IAEA AORC KNNP TRGY MNUC SUBJECT: IAEA: ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS ON MAPPING PRODUCT REQUEST REF: STATE 024239 Classified By: AMBASSADOR GREGORY L. SCHULTE FOR REASONS 1.4 (B) AND (D) ¶1. (U) This is an action request. Please see para 5. ¶2. (S) Msnoff met with Acting Head of the Satellite Imagery Analysis Unit's (SIAU),Karen Steinmaus (AMCIT) on March 16 to deliver reftel points. Steinmaus appreciated the U.S. response and provided additional clarity on the IAEA's interests with regards to Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) and VMAP products, subject to cost and availability, on April 15. ¶3. (S) The IAEA requests worldwide coverage of SRTM Level 1 (30m) data. Using SRTM Level 3 (90m) data as an example, the data is available from the NASA site downloadable via a NASA ftp server. The IAEA requests a similar procedure, to enable downloading of the compressed SRTM Level 1 tiles from an ftp site. If prioritization is needed (and assuming that the organization of the data is similar to NASA site, http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/),then the IAEA would request the EURASIA and SOUTH AMERICA regions. The IAEA would prefer the data be delivered USGS DEM or the DTED format. ¶4. (S) Similarly with VMAP Level 0, the IAEA requests coverage for the EURASIA region and requests this include all feature classes available (e.g. ELEV, TRANS, UTIL, etc.). The IAEA requests this data in ArcGIS shapefiles (shp). ¶5. (S) Action Request: Pursuant to U.S. policy in support of strong, appropriate IAEA safeguards analytic capabilities, we would appreciate a response to Steinmaus' requests as indicated in paras 3 and 4. Mission also requests consideration, subject to anticipated costs, of funding the imagery mapping products through the U.S. Support Program to safeguards. Gabriela Fernandez (IAEA section, 43 1 31339 4823, FernandezGA@state.sgov.gov) is the Mission's POC for this activity. SCHULTE