COST SHARING

As requested in the RFP, our proposal includes substantial cost sharing from the participating institutions and corporations. The total contributed in cash, salaries, equipment, and software is substantially greater than the required 25of the project. The major contributions to cost sharing are as follows, as detailed in the budget in Section 4:

• a cash contribution by the University of California, Santa Barbara of $100,000 per year for each year of the project;
• a cash contribution by the State University of New York at Buffalo of $40,000 per year for each year of the project;
• partial salaries of key staff of the Map and Imagery Laboratory (Carver and Larsgaard) and a full-time data entry person, by the UCSB Library;
• partial salaries for various key researchers at UCSB and SUNY Buffalo;
• a major equipment donation, software licenses, and the salary of a full time design engineer for each year of the project, by Digital Equipment Corporation (although Digital has identified only its initial equipment donation, we anticipate based on discussions that similar donations will be forthcoming in the later years of the project);
• donation of software licenses, and staff time for design activities, by ConQuest Corporation and ESRI.