Aerial Photography of Minnesota: 2015
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency
Digital aerial photography was collected for the entire State of Minnesota
during Summer and Fall 2015, 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
- Orthorectification using ground control (absolute accuracy)
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Documentation
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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)
- County seamline shapefiles
in UTM Zone 15 coordinates (all 87 county seamline shapefiles can be downloaded as one
zipped file)
View/Download/Purchase
- MnGeo's WMS service:
View without downloading (free)
- natural color and color infrared (CIR) are in separate
layers
- natural color and color infrared (CIR) are in separate
layers
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Download the natural color MrSID format county mosaics (free). Filenames use these county codes.
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County mosaics do NOT contain the color infrared (CIR) band.
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FSA's Aerial Photography Field Office: Order imagery on physical media such as DVD, flash drive or hard drive
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The color infrared imagery is available as quarter-quadrangle TIF tiles, not as county mosaics
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Order form and price list for ordering imagery, including contact info if you have questions
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Return to MnGeo's first-stop
Aerial Photography page