2006 USDA National Agriculture Imagery Program Orthophotography

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Originally published: March 2, 2025

Most recent update: May 10, 2025

Resolution: 4 feet (1.2 meters)

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Data Sources

Description

Natural color aerial imagery from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP), stitched together into a seamless map. 2006 imagery was used for New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island. 2005 imagery was used in Pennsylvania. Massachussets is a mixture of 2004 and 2006 imagery. The earliest Delaware imagery was from 2009. Maryland is a mixutre of 2005, 2006 and 2007 imagery - yet there are still some areas around Chesapeake Bay that are not covered.

The New Jersey imagery was available from NJGIN as a mosaic of the entire state. All other imagery was downloaded as individual counties from the NRCS. These files are composites of multiple images that must be cropped for use in a seamless map. We used the county shapefiles from the USGS National Boundary Dataset for this purpose in Pennsylvania. However, previous experience found that this technique did not work well in coastal areas because the actual coastlines do not match the low-resolution shapefiles very well. Therefore, we hand-cropped all of the New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachussets, Maryland and Delaware imagery to preserve the maximum amount of coverage in coastal areas.

NAIP began acquiring imagery in 2003 and those are the earliest available files. This map (more or less) represents the earliest available NAIP imagery for the region. For example, 2006 is the oldest New Jersey imagery available for download. There is a considerable difference in imagery between the different states in this map. While New Jersey and parts of Connecticut are well-exposed with natural looking colors, New York is very de-saturated with low contrast while Pennsylvania is quite dark with a heavy bluish cast. These are the colors as they originally appeared in the imagery, boydsmaps has not done any processing to change colors or contrast.

Credits

United States Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Administration Aerial Photography Field Office

NJ Office of Information Technology (NJOIT), Office of Geographic Information Systems (OGIS)

New Jersey Geographic Information Network (njgin.nj.gov)

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