These images are presented as thumbnail sketches of areas in, or adjacent to, Afghanistan. As digital images, they can be imported into standard software packages and enlarged; however, as thumbnail sketches they are always of inferior quality to the original imagery and/or data base. The ASTER images listed herein were selected (quality, cloud cover, etc.) and acquired by Doug Peters, and Lindsey Maness, who have extensive experience with images of this type: these represent only a very small sample of the available imagery.

Viewers should directly contact the original source to get copies of the original digital data. Detailed instructions for how to do that will soon be incorporated into this document. In the interim, if someone urgently needs a copy, please contact Lindsey V. Maness, Jr. directly, via E–Mail at lvmaness@china–resources.net for instructions. I am not an authorized reseller of this imagery, but can put you in touch with the appropriate authorized party to acquire it, and can offer expert advice on effective use of the imagery for a variety of purposes. For those involved in the anti–terrorism effort (US or Allied), there will be no charge assessed for routine assistance (i.e., that which does not require a significant expenditure of time or money). For all others, my charge is $200/hour, plus expenses, payable in advance.

For more information about ASTER images, contact: http://imsweb.aster.ersdac.or.jp/ims/cgi-bin/dprSearchMapByMenu.pl.

As a final note, it would have been more useful to have listed these ASTER images in satellite path–and–row order (rather than roughly, by country), as was done with the original Landsat series of satellites, but no such scheme has been implemented to date for ASTER. Lacking an accepted path–and–row scheme, the images were sorted first alphabetically by country acronym(s) and second numerically by scene id.