Aerial Photography of Minnesota: 2013

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency

Digital aerial photography was collected for the entire State of Minnesota during Summer and Fall 2013, as part of the Farm Service Agency's National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP).
 

Specifications

• Statewide; 1-meter resolution
• Digital with four bands:  red, green, blue, color infrared (the downloadable MrSID format county mosaics are 3-band natural color)
• Orthorectification using ground control (absolute accuracy)
• Documentation
   
• Photo dates:  A seamline shapefile accompanying each county mosaic documents the date the photo was flown along with other technical details.
  • County seamline shapefiles in UTM Zone 15 coordinates (all 87 county seamline shapefiles can be downloaded as one zipped file)
  • Statewide seamline shapefile in GCS NAD83 (latitude/longitude) coordinates
     

View/Download/Purchase

• MnGeo's WMS service: View without downloading, natural color and color infrared (free)
   

• NRCS Geospatial Data Gateway:  The site provides step-by-step instructions to download the natural color county mosaics (free).
   

• FSA's Aerial Photography Field Office:  Order imagery on physical media such as DVD, flash drive or hard drive. The color infrared imagery is only available as quarter-quadrangle tiles, not as county mosaics.

  • Ordering process

  • Order form and price list for ordering imagery, including contact info if you have questions
     

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