  The 2.5m Isaac Newton Telescope(INT) is currently being used to carry out a
major multi-colour, multi-epoch, CCD based wide field survey over an area of
100 square degrees. The survey parameters have been chosen to maximise
scientific return over a wide range of scientific areas and to complement other
surveys being carried out elsewhere. Unique aspects of the survey is that it
concentrates on regions of sky that are easily accessible from telescopes in
both Northern and Southern terrestrial hemispheres and that it the first public
survey to use filters similar to that being used by the Sloan Digital Sky
Survey. A major aim of the the INT Wide Field Survey program is to bridge the
gap between the all-sky photographic 2 and 3 band surveys such as the Palomar
and UK Schmidt sky surveys and the ultra-deep keyhole surveys such as the
Hubble Deep Field.
