Tulak

Gergi

Kharcan

Adraskan

Gala Tut

Anate Sediq

Kamar Zard

Shindand

Parmakan

Kham Khorki

Darvaji Bala

Azaw Bar Azow

Porchaman

MAP LOCATION

AGCHO quadrangles shown in blue

USGS/AGS quadrangle shown in red

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70°E 72°E

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THE HEAD OFFIC E OF GEODESY & CARTOGRAPHY

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

MINISTRY OF M INES AND INDUSTRIES

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

USGS OPEN-FILE REPORT 2005-1109-D

AGS OPEN-FILE REPORT (415/416) 2005-1109-D

USGS Afghanistan Project Product No. 135

Any use of trade names in this publication is for 

descriptive purposes only and does not imply 

endorsement by the U.S. Geological Survey

Cultural data from digital files from AIMS Web site 

(http://www.aims.org.af)

Projection: Universal Transverse Mercator, zone 41, WGS 

84 Datum

SCALE 1:250 000

5 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 KILOMETERS

5 0 5 10 15 20 MILES

FALSE-COLOR-IMAGE MAP OF QUADRANGLE 3362, SHIN-DAND (415) AND TULAK (416) QUADRANGLES, AFGHANISTAN

By

Philip A. Davis (image processing) and Kenzie J. Turner (cartography)

2005

AFGHAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

Prepared in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey and the Afghanistan Geodesy and Cartography Head Office

Under the auspices of the U.S. Agency for International Development

City, town, or village

EXPLANATION

DATA SUMMARY

This map is a false-color rendition created from Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus imagery 

collected between 1999 and 2002. The false colors were generated by applying an adaptive histogram 

equalization stretch to Landsat bands 7 (displayed in red), 4 (displayed in green), and 2 (displayed in 

blue). These three bands contain most of the spectral differences provided by Landsat imagery and, 

therefore, provide the most discrimination between surface materials. Landsat bands 4 and 7 are in the 

near-infrared and short-wave-infrared regions, respectively, where differences in absorption of sunlight 

by different surface materials are more pronounced than in visible wavelengths.

Cultural data were extracted from files downloaded from the Afghanistan Information Management 

Service (AIMS) Web site (http://www.aims.org.af). The AIMS files were originally derived from maps 

produced by the Afghanistan Geodesy and Cartography Head Office (AGCHO). Cultural features were 

not derived from the Landsat base and consequently do not match it precisely.

This map is part of a series that includes a geologic map, a topographic map, a Landsat natural-colorimage map, and a Landsat false-color-image map for the USGS/AGS (U.S. Geological Survey/Afghan 

Geological Survey) quadrangles covering Afghanistan. The maps for any given quadrangle have the 

same open-file number but a different letter suffix, namely, -A, -B, -C, and -D for the geologic, 

topographic, Landsat natural-color, and Landsat false-color maps, respectively. The present map series 

is to be followed by a second series, in which the geology is reinterpreted on the basis of analysis of 

remote-sensing data, limited fieldwork, and library research. The second series is to be produced by the 

USGS in cooperation with the AGS and AGCHO.

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