Background

For more than 75 years in more than 100 countries, USGS has successfully completed capacity- or institution-building projects. These include collaborative efforts in Afghanistan in the '50s, '60s and early '70s.

The proposed USGS projects will focus on assessments of oil and gas, coal, minerals,water resources, and earthquake hazards as well as geospatial infrastructure development and institution/capacity building.

View photographs and images from USGS Afghanistan projects. The galleries are used to archive photographs and images from field activities, training events, and other actives. Within the galleries you can quickly browse and download original photograph or image as well as search for specific images by keywords.

The viewer, based on ESRI Internet Map Server technology, allows interactive creation of maps of Afghanistan with a variety of landscape and infrastructure features at any scale.

Additional perspectives on Afghanistan and the science behind USGS activities are also available through a variety of downloadable documents.

Download Landsat and ASTER imagery, SRTM DEMs, Soviet topographic sheets and various vector data sets for the country of Afghanistan. USGS has developed a comprehensive Landsat data set for Afghanistan that includes original and atmospherically corrected scenes as well as 3 band natural and false color composites.