Aerial Photographs

[ScoutMan]

I have no trouble getting topo maps for those areas I want to hunt. But how do you get the aerial photo to match. When ordering photos do you just use the map coordinates?. I need help here.

Morover, with the high quality of computer printers now, can't these photos be downloaded from the respective sites (hopefully free).

Appreciate any help to point me in the right direction.


ScoutMan

[Hairtrigger]

Check out google earth

[SDS-GEN]

Go to your county NRCS office, they can order aerial photos of the farm or area you want to hunt, they may be able to print them out for you right there.  Some of the web sites that have topos also have photos (terra server) also try USGS web site they can direct you to other sources.  Google Earth is great if they have the sat. pic for your area in good resolution.

[The Sodbuster]

I'm with SDS-GEN on this one.  In any county with significant agriculture, the USDA will fly aerial photography every summer.  They can print out a copy of the tract you'll be hunting.  For the past few years, they've used digital photography.  Depending on the office, you might be able to get a digital copy.  I use these at work all the time.  In our area, USDA photography has 2 meter resolution.  It would take me forever to download that kind of detail over a modem.

If you're in a part of the country that's largely forested, they might not fly your area.  Here in Missouri, they generally don't fly all the southern counties since there's darn little cropping going on in parts of the Ozarks.  Go with TerraServer or Google Earth if that doesn't work.

[OLDHandgunner]

Sodbuster,
In VT. we have a problem with Goggle, it won't show clear images. Map-Quest site now has aerial photos. It seems alot clearer.  Check it out.

[Land_Owner]

Shown below are the contents of an e-mail I received on Monday 01/08/07.  Please note the cost is FREE.   
Land Owner

News Release

For release:  January 8, 2007
Contact:  Gene Fosnight, 605-594-605, fosnight@usgs.gov

TerraLook Coming Soon

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS), in cooperation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is pleased to announce the upcoming release of the TerraLook data product.  TerraLook consists of a collection of JPEG images created from ASTER images from the Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center and Landsat Orthorectified images from the USGS EROS archive.
 
The TerraLook images are user-selected, geo-registered, simulated natural color bundled with footprints of the images and standards-compliant metadata that describe the collection. Each collection will be delivered as a single zipped file.

TerraLook products will be available at no charge, and may be selected and ordered through the USGS Global Visualization Viewer (GloVIS), http://glovis.usgs.gov/.  The expected release date is January 2007.

TerraLook builds on the success of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Protected Area Archive project (http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/paa.asp) with additional support from The Nature Conservancy, the World Bank Development Grant Facility Program’s Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network Connectivity Project, the U.S. State Department, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Amazon Protected Area Network project and the IUCN – the World Conservation Union.

For More Information
USGS Center for EROS        Phone:        (800) 252-4547
Customer Services        TDD:        (605) 594-6933
Mundt Federal Building        Fax:        (605) 594-6589
Sioux Falls, South Dakota 57198-0001        Email:        custserv@usgs.gov
EROS website: http://eros.usgs.gov/

Karen Wood
Public Affairs Specialist
U.S. Geological Survey, Office of Communications
703-648-4447
Fax: 703-648-4466
Email: kwood@usgs.gov

[dukkillr]

there are several places online that offer good resolution aerials for free... I would not go into any office or pay for them.  http://terraserver.microsoft.com is what I use.

[ScoutMan]

Thanks for the good info everyone. Does anyone offer these on CD Rom by area of the US (North East, South, SouthWest, etc. )

SM

[PA-Joe]

Try USAPhotoMaps

[†·ĦŮŃŦČŔ·†]

I use aerial maps alot like terrasever but the one thing ya need to be careful of is the date the picture taken w/ terraserver I notice that the photos were taken almost 10 years ago - I found several tracts of land that I went lookin at only to find a sub-devision has been built there .....

 I used to work in our local Town Hall and I know in the Planning Office they had something called "GIS" I think - but it was aerial photos of the town for future planning - I got a few of properites that I hunt - so ya may want to check out your local Town offices to see you can optaine copies of there aerial photos which are more up to date ...