The National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) acquires aerial imagery during the agricultural growing seasons in the continental U.S. A primary goal of the NAIP program is to make digital ortho photography available to governmental agencies and the public within a year of acquisition. NAIP is administered by the USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA) through the Aerial Photography Field Office in Salt Lake City. This "leaf-on" imagery is used as a base layer for GIS programs in FSA's County Service Centers, and is used to maintain the Common Land Unit (CLU) boundaries.

The National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) acquires aerial imagery during the agricultural growing seasons in the continental U.S. NAIP projects are contracted each year based upon available funding and the imagery acquisition cycle. Beginning in 2003, NAIP was acquired on a 5-year cycle. 2008 was a transition year, and a …

The National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) is administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Production and Conservation Business Center (FPAC-BC) Geospatial Enterprise Operations (GEO) Branch. NAIP acquires aerial imagery for the contiguous United States (CONUS) during the agricultural growing season, or leaf-on conditions and may contain as much as 10 percent cloud cover per tile. The images are orthorectified which combines the image characteristics of an aerial photograph with the georeferenced qualities of a map. NAIP acquisition from 2002-2017 was at a ground sample distance (GSD) of 1 or 2-meter. In 2018, the ground sample distance standard changed to 0.6 meter with the option for 0.3 meter. The 2025 acquisition consists of approximately half of the states delivered at 60cm and the other half at 30cm ground sample distance. The repeat flying cycle has also changed to no more than a 3-year cycle (generally every other year for most states) from its 5-year cycle back in 2003-2009. Each individual image tile is based on a 3.75-minute longitude by 3.75-minute latitude quarter quadrangle, originally with a 300-meter buffer on all four sides. In 2024 the buffer was changed to 12-meters on all four sides. Tiles in the NAIP collection are natural color (red, green, and blue bands) or color near infrared (red, green, blue, and near infrared bands).

A large-scale aerial farmland image dataset for semantic segmentation of agricultural patterns. Collects 94,986 high-quality aerial images from 3,432 farmlands across the US, where each image consists of RGB and Near-infrared (NIR) channels with resolution as high as 10 cm per pixel.

What is NAIP? The National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) acquires aerial imagery during the agricultural growing seasons in the contiguous U.S. A primary goal of the NAIP program is to make digital ortho photography available to governmental agencies and the public within a year of acquisition. NAIP is administered by the USDA's Farm Production and Conservation Business Center Geospatial Enterprise Operations Branch (GEO). This "leaf-on" imagery is used as a base layer for GIS programs in FSA's County Service Centers, and is used to maintain the Common Land Unit (CLU) boundaries. How can I Access NAIP?On the web FPAC-BC-GEO public image services can be accessed through the REST endpoint here. Compressed County Mosaics (CCMs) are available to the general public through the USDA Geospatial Data Gateway. All years of available imagery may be downloaded as 1/2, 1, or 2 meter CCMs depending on the original spatial resolution. CCMs with a file size larger than 8 GB are not able to be downloaded from the Gateway. Full resolution 4 band quarter quads (DOQQs) are available for purchase from FPAC GEO. Contact the GEO Customer Service Section for information on pricing for DOQQs and how to obtain CCMs larger than 8 GB. A NAIP image service is also available on ArcGIS Online through an organizational subscription. How can NAIP be used? NAIP is used by many non-FSA public and private sector customers for a wide variety of projects. A detailed study is available in the Qualitative and Quantitative Synopsis on NAIP Usage from 2004 -2008: Click here for a list of NAIP Information and Distribution Nodes. When is NAIP acquired? NAIP projects are contracted each year based upon available funding and the FSA imagery acquisition cycle. Beginning in 2003, NAIP was acquired on a 5-year cycle. 2008 was a transition year, a three-year cycle began in 2009, NAIP was on a two-year cycle until 2016, currently NAIP is on a 3 year refresh cycle. Click here >> for an interactive PDF status map of NAIP acquisitions from 2002 - 2018. The 2022 acquisition status dashboard is available here. What are NAIP Specifications? NAIP imagery is currently acquired at 60cm ground sample distance (GSD) with a horizontal accuracy that matches within four meters of photo-identifiable ground control points. The default spectral resolution beginning in 2010 is four bands: Red, Green, Blue and Near Infrared. Contractually, every attempt will be made to comply with the specification of no more than 10% cloud cover per quarter quad tile, weather conditions permitting. All imagery is inspected for horizontal accuracy and tonal quality. Make Comments/Observations about current NAIP imagery.If you use NAIP imagery and have comments or find a problem with the imagery please use the NAIP Imagery Feedback Map to let us know what you find or how you are using NAIP imagery. Click here to access the map.

This data set contains imagery from the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP). The NAIP acquires digital ortho imagery during the agricultural growing seasons in the continental U.S.. A primary goal of the NAIP program is to enable availability of ortho imagery within one year of acquisition. The NAIP provides two main products: 1 meter ground sample distance (GSD) ortho imagery rectified to a horizontal accuracy within +/- 5 meters of reference digital ortho quarter quads (DOQQ's) from the National Digital Ortho Program (NDOP) or from the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP); 1 meter GSD ortho imagery rectified within +/- 6 meters to true ground. The tiling format of NAIP imagery is based on a 3.75' x 3.75' quarter quadrangle with a 300 meter buffer on all four sides. The NAIP imagery is formatted to the UTM coordinate system using the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83). The NAIP imagery may contain as much as 10% cloud cover per tile. This file was generated by compressing NAIP imagery that cover the county extent. Two types of compression may be used for NAIP imagery: MrSID and JPEG 2000. Target value for the compression ratio is (15:1).

Agriculture-Vision aims to be a publicly available large-scale aerial agricultural image dataset that is high-resolution, multi-band, and with multiple types of patterns annotated by agronomy experts. The original dataset affiliated with the 2020 CVPR paper includes 94,986 512x512images sampled from 3,432 farmlands with nine types of annotations: double plant, drydown, endrow, nutrient deficiency, planter skip, storm damage, water, waterway and weed cluster. All of these patterns have substantial impacts on field conditions and the final yield. These farmland images were captured between 2017 and 2019 across multiple growing seasons in numerous farming locations in the US. Each field image contains four color channels: Near-infrared (NIR), Red, Green and Blue. We first randomly split the 3,432 farmland images with a 6/2/2 train/val/test ratio. We then assign each sampled image to the split of the farmland image they are cropped from. This guarantees that no cropped images from the same farmland will appear in multiple splits in the final dataset. The generated (supervised) Agriculture-Vision dataset thus contains 56,944/18,334/19,708 train/val/test images. Additionally, we continue to grow this dataset. In 2021 as a part of the Prize Challenge at CVPR, we have added sequences of full-field imagery across 52 fields to promote the use of weakly supervised methods.

This dataset contains 4-band natural color and false color infrared (CIR) imagery from the National Agricultural Imagery Program (NAIP). NAIP acquires digital ortho imagery during the agricultural growing seasons in the continental U.S. A primary goal of the NAIP program is to enable availability of ortho imagery within one year of acquisition.

The source files are 30-centimeter (approx. 1-foot) ground sample distance (GSD) ortho imagery rectified to within +/- 4 meters to reference digital ortho quarter quads (DOQQ's) from the National Digital Ortho Program (NDOP) or from the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP). The tiling format of NAIP imagery is based on a 3.75' x 3.75' quarter quadrangle with a 300 +/- 30 pixel buffer on all four sides. NAIP imagery is formatted to the UTM coordinate system using the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83). NAIP imagery may contain as much as 10% cloud cover per tile.

The county mosaic files downloadable from the USDA NRCS Geospatial Data Gateway (natural color and color infrared) were generated by compressing NAIP imagery that covers the county extent. Two types of compression may be used for NAIP imagery: MrSID and JPEG 2000. The target value for the compression ratio is 40:1 for imagery.

The Minnesota Geospatial Information Office (MnGeo) created this metadata record to describe the entire NAIP 2023 dataset, using information from FPAC-BC-GEO metadata. Each county file available from the USDA NRCS Geospatial Data Gateway is accompanied by the original FPAC-BC-GEO metadata for that county.

What is NAIP?The National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) acquires aerial imagery during the agricultural growing seasons in the contiguous U.S. A primary goal of the NAIP program is to make digital ortho photography available to governmental agencies and the public within a year of acquisition.NAIP is administered by the USDA's Farm Production and Conservation Business Center through the Aerial Photography Field Office in Salt Lake City. The APFO as of August 16, 2020 has transitioned to the USDA FPAC-BC's Geospatial Enterprise Operations Branch (GEO). This "leaf-on" imagery is used as a base layer for GIS programs in FSA's County Service Centers, and is used to maintain the Common Land Unit (CLU) boundaries.How can I Access NAIP?On the web GEO (APFO) public image services can be accessed through the REST endpoint here. Compressed County Mosaics (CCMs) are available to the general public through the USDA Geospatial Data Gateway. All years of available imagery may be downloaded as 1/2, 1, or 2 meter CCMs depending on the original spatial resolution. CCMs with a file size larger than 8 GB are not able to be downloaded from the Gateway. Full resolution 4 band quarter quads (DOQQs) are available for purchase from FPAC GEO. Contact the GEO Customer Service Section for information on pricing for DOQQs and how to obtain CCMs larger than 8 GB. A NAIP image service is also available on ArcGIS Online through an organizational subscription.How can NAIP be used?NAIP is used by many non-FSA public and private sector customers for a wide variety of projects. A detailed study is available in the Qualitative and Quantitative Synopsis on NAIP Usage from 2004 -2008: Click here for a list of NAIP Information and Distribution Nodes.When is NAIP acquired?NAIP projects are contracted each year based upon available funding and the FSA imagery acquisition cycle. Beginning in 2003, NAIP was acquired on a 5-year cycle. 2008 was a transition year, a three-year cycle began in 2009, NAIP was on a two-year cycle until 2016, currently NAIP is on a 3 year refresh cycle. Click here >> for an interactive PDF status map of NAIP acquisitions from 2002 - 2018. 2021 acquisition status dashboard is available here.What are NAIP Specifications?NAIP imagery is currently acquired at 60cm ground sample distance (GSD) with a horizontal accuracy that matches within four meters of photo-identifiable ground control points.The default spectral resolution beginning in 2010 is four bands: Red, Green, Blue and Near Infrared.Contractually, every attempt will be made to comply with the specification of no more than 10% cloud cover per quarter quad tile, weather conditions permitting.All imagery is inspected for horizontal accuracy and tonal quality. Make Comments/Observations about current NAIP imagery.If you use NAIP imagery and have comments or find a problem with the imagery please use the NAIP Imagery Feedback Map to let us know what you find or how you are using NAIP imagery. Click here to access the map.**The documentation below is in reference to this items placement in the NM Supply Chain Data Hub. The documentation is of use to understanding the source of this item, and how to reproduce it for updates**Title: National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) History 2002-2021Item Type: Web Mapping Application URL Summary: Story map depicting the highlights and changes throughout the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) from 2002-2021.Notes: Prepared by: Uploaded by EMcRae_NMCDCSource: URL referencing this original map product: https://nmcdc.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=445e3dfd16c4401f95f78ad5905a4cceFeature Service: https://nmcdc.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=8eb6c5e7adc54ec889dd6fc9cc2c14c4UID: 26Data Requested: Ag CensusMethod of Acquisition: Living AtlasDate Acquired: May 2022Priority rank as Identified in 2022 (scale of 1 being the highest priority, to 11 being the lowest priority): 8Tags: PENDING

This data set contains 4-band natural color and false color infrared (CIR) imagery from the National Agricultural Imagery Program (NAIP). NAIP acquires digital ortho imagery during the agricultural growing seasons in the continental U.S. A primary goal of the NAIP program is to enable availability of ortho imagery within one year of acquisition.

The source files are 60-centimeter (approx. 2-foot) ground sample distance (GSD) ortho imagery rectified to within +/- 6 meters to true ground. The tiling format of NAIP imagery is based on a 3.75' x 3.75' quarter quadrangle with a 300 pixel buffer on all four sides. NAIP imagery is formatted to the UTM coordinate system using the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83). NAIP imagery may contain as much as 10% cloud cover per tile.

The county mosaic files downloadable from the USDA NRCS Geospatial Data Gateway (natural color and color infrared) were generated by compressing NAIP imagery that covers the county extent. MrSID compression was used. Target values for the compression ratio are 15:1.

The Minnesota Geospatial Information Office (MnGeo) created this metadata record to describe the entire NAIP 2019 dataset, using information from Farm Service Agency metadata. Each county file available from the USDA NRCS Geospatial Data Gateway is accompanied by the original FSA metadata for that county.

This data set contains imagery from the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP). NAIP acquires digital ortho imagery during the agricultural growing seasons in the continental U.S.. A primary goal of the NAIP program is to enable availability of of ortho imagery within one year of acquisition. NAIP provides four main products: 1 meter ground sample distance (GSD) ortho imagery rectified to a horizontal accuracy of within +/- 5 meters of reference digital ortho quarter quads (DOQQ's) from the National Digital Ortho Program (NDOP); 2 meter GSD ortho imagery rectified to within +/- 10 meters of reference DOQQs; 1 meter GSD ortho imagery rectified to within +/- 6 meters to true ground; and, 2 meter GSD ortho imagery rectified to within +/- 10 meters to true ground. The tiling format of NAIP imagery is based on a 3.75' x 3.75' quarter quadrangle with a 300 meter buffer on all four sides. NAIP quarter quads are formatted to the UTM coordinate system using NAD83. NAIP imagery may contain as much as 10% cloud cover per tile.NAIP imagery is available for distribution within 60 days of the end of a flying season and is intended to provide current information of agricultural conditions in support of USDA farm programs. For USDA Farm Service Agency, the 1 meter GSD product provides an ortho image base for Common Land Unit boundaries and other data sets. The 1 meter NAIP imagery is generally acquired in projects covering full states in cooperation with state government and other federal agencies who use the imagery for a variety of purposes including land use planning and natural resource assessment. With an annual cycle, NAIP is also used for disaster response often providing the most current pre-event imagery. While suitable for a variety of uses the 2 meter GSD NAIP imagery is primarily intended to assess crop condition and compliance to USDA farm program conditions. The 2 meter imagery is generally acquired only for agricultural areas within state projects.Individual image tiles can be downloaded using the Idaho Aerial Imagery Explorer.These data can be bulk downloaded from a web accessible folder.Users should be aware that temporal changes may have occurred since these data were collected and that some parts of these data may no longer represent actual surface conditions. Users should not use these data for critical applications without a full awareness of the limitations of these data as described in the lineage or elsewhere.

This data set contains natural color imagery from the National Agricultural Imagery Program (NAIP). NAIP acquires digital ortho imagery during the agricultural growing seasons in the continental U.S.. A primary goal of the NAIP program is to enable availability of ortho imagery within one year of acquisition.

The source files are 2 meter ground sample distance (GSD) ortho imagery rectified to a horizontal accuracy of within 10 meters of reference digital ortho quarter quads (DOQQ's) from the National Digital Ortho Program (NDOP). The tiling format of NAIP imagery is based on a 3.75' x 3.75' quarter quadrangle with a 300 meter buffer on all four sides. NAIP quarter quads are formatted to the UTM coordinate system using NAD83. NAIP imagery may contain as much as 10% cloud cover per tile.

This file was generated by compressing NAIP quarter quadrangle tiles that cover a county. MrSID compression, with mosaic option, was used. Target values for the compression ratio are (15:1) and MrSID Generation 3.

(Note: MnGeo created this metadata record using information from Farm Service Agency metadata. Each county file is accompanied by the original FSA metadata for that county.)

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This data set contains imagery from the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP). NAIP acquires digital ortho imagery during the agricultural growing seasons in the continental U.S. A primary goal of the NAIP program is to enable availability of of ortho imagery within one year of acquisition. NAIP provides four main products: 1 meter ground sample distance (GSD) ortho imagery rectified to a horizontal accuracy of within +/- 5 meters of reference digital ortho quarter quads (DOQQ's) from the National Digital Ortho Program (NDOP); 2 meter GSD ortho imagery rectified to within +/- 10 meters of reference DOQQs; 1 meter GSD ortho imagery rectified to within +/- 6 meters to true ground; and, 2 meter GSD ortho imagery rectified to within +/- 10 meters to true ground. The tiling format of NAIP imagery is based on a 3.75' x 3.75' quarter quadrangle with a 300 meter buffer on all four sides. NAIP quarter quads are formatted to the UTM coordinate system using NAD83. NAIP imagery may contain as much as 10% cloud cover per tile. Resources in this dataset:Resource Title: GeoData catalog record. File Name: Web Page, url: https://geodata.nal.usda.gov/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/4dae30db-2a65-4c35-8c29-61ea7b729625

This collection contains 3112 2006 2-meter natural color orthorectified images for agricultural land within the State of Idaho. These data are sourced from the USDA FSA National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP).

This data set contains imagery from the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP). NAIP acquires digital ortho imagery during the agricultural growing seasons in the continental U.S.. A primary goal of the NAIP program is to enable availability of of ortho imagery within one year of acquisition. NAIP provides four main products: 1 meter ground sample distance (GSD) ortho imagery rectified to a horizontal accuracy of within +/- 5 meters of reference digital ortho quarter quads (DOQQ's) from the National Digital Ortho Program (NDOP); 2 meter GSD ortho imagery rectified to within +/- 10 meters of reference DOQQs; 1 meter GSD ortho imagery rectified to within +/- 6 meters to true ground; and, 2 meter GSD ortho imagery rectified to within +/- 10 meters to true ground. The tiling format of NAIP imagery is based on a 3.75' x 3.75' quarter quadrangle with a 300 meter buffer on all four sides. NAIP quarter quads are formatted to the UTM coordinate system using NAD83. NAIP imagery may contain as much as 10% cloud cover per tile.

NAIP imagery is available for distribution within 60 days of the end of a flying season and is intended to provide current information of agricultural conditions in support of USDA farm programs. For USDA Farm Service Agency, the 1 meter GSD product provides an ortho image base for Common Land Unit boundaries and other data sets. The 1 meter NAIP imagery is generally acquired in projects covering full states in cooperation with state government and other federal agencies who use the imagery for a variety of purposes including land use planning and natural resource assessment. With an annual cycle, NAIP is also used for disaster response often providing the most current pre-event imagery. While suitable for a variety of uses the 2 meter GSD NAIP imagery is primarily intended to assess crop condition and compliance to USDA farm program conditions. The 2 meter imagery is generally acquired only for agricultural areas within state projects.

Lebanon has traditionally been a major potato producer with 451,860 tons produced in 2014. Generally, potatoes make up 30% of the total Lebanese agricultural exports where approximately 60% of the potato production is exported to the Arab region, the UK and Brazil. The purpose of this study is to promote precision agriculture techniques in Lebanon that will help local farmers in the central Bekaa Valley with land management decisions. The European Space Agency’s satellite missions Sentinel-2A, launched June 23rd 2015, and the Sentinel-2B, recently launched on March 7th 2017, are multispectral high resolution imaging systems that provide global coverage every 5 days. The Sentinel program is a land monitoring program that includes an aim to improve agricultural practices. The imagery is 13 band data in the visible, near infrared and short wave infrared parts of the electromagnetic spectrum and ranges from 10-20 m including three 60 m bands pixel resolution. Sentinel is freely available data that has the potential to empower farmers with information to respond quickly to maximize crop health. Due to the political and security conflicts in the region, utilizing satellite imagery for Lebanon is more reasonable and realistic than operating Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for high resolution remote sensing. During the 2017 growing season, local farmers provided detailed information in designated fields on their farming practices, crop health, and pest threats. In parallel, Sentinel-2 imagery was processed to study crop health using the following vegetation indices: Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, Green Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index and Modified Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index 2. Most Lebanese farmers inherit their land from their parents over generations, and as a result most still use traditional farming techniques for irrigation, where decisions are based on prior generations’ practices. However, with the changes in climate conditions within the region, these practices are no longer as efficient as they used to be. Normalized Difference Water Indices are calculated from satellite bands in the near-infrared and short-wave infrared to provide a better understanding about the water stress status of crops within the field. Preliminary results demonstrate that Sentinel-2 data can provide detailed and timely data for farmers to effectively manage fields. Despite the fact that most Lebanese farmers rely on traditional farming methods, providing them with crop health information on their mobile phones and allowing them to test its efficiency has the potential to be a catalyst to help them improve their farming practices.

This data set contains imagery from the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP). The NAIP program is administered by USDA FSA and has been established to support two main FSA strategic goals centered on agricultural production. These are increase stewardship of America's natural resources while enhancing the environment, and to ensure commodities are procured and distributed effectively and efficiently to increase food security. The NAIP program supports these goals by acquiring and providing ortho imagery that has been collected during the agricultural growing season in the U.S. The NAIP ortho imagery is tailored to meet FSA requirements and is a fundamental tool used to support FSA farm and conservation programs. Ortho imagery provides an effective, intuitive means of communication about farm program administration between FSA and stakeholders. New technology and innovation is identified by fostering and maintaining a relationship with vendors and government partners, and by keeping pace with the broader geospatial community. As a result of these efforts the NAIP program provides three main products: DOQQ tiles, Compressed County Mosaics (CCM), and Seamline shape files. The Contract specifications for NAIP imagery have changed over time reflecting agency requirements and improving technologies. These changes include image resolution, horizontal accuracy, coverage area, and number of bands. In general, flying seasons are established by FSA and are targeted for peak crop growing conditions. The NAIP acquisition cycle is based on a minimum 3 year update of base ortho imagery. The tiling format of the NAIP imagery is based on a 3.75' x 3.75' quarter quadrangle with a 300 pixel buffer on all four sides. NAIP quarter quads are formatted to the UTM coordinate system using the North American Datum of 1983. NAIP imagery may contain as much as 10% cloud cover per tile.

This data set contains imagery from the National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP). The NAIP program is administered by USDA FSA and has been established to support two main FSA strategic goals centered on agricultural production. These are increase stewardship of America's natural resources while enhancing the environment, and to ensure commodities are procured and distributed effectively and efficiently to increase food security. The NAIP program supports these goals by acquiring and providing ortho imagery that has been collected during the agricultural growing season in the U.S. The NAIP ortho imagery is tailored to meet FSA requirements and is a fundamental tool used to support FSA farm and conservation programs. Ortho imagery provides an effective, intuitive means of communication about farm program administration between FSA and stakeholders. New technology and innovation is identified by fostering and maintaining a relationship with vendors and government partners, and by keeping pace with the broader geospatial community. As a result of these efforts the NAIP program provides three main products: DOQQ tiles, Compressed County Mosaics (CCM), and Seamline shape files. The Contract specifications for NAIP imagery have changed over time reflecting agency requirements and improving technologies. These changes include image resolution, horizontal accuracy, coverage area, and number of bands. In general, flying seasons are established by FSA and are targeted for peak crop growing conditions. The NAIP acquisition cycle is based on a minimum 3 year update of base ortho imagery. The tiling format of the NAIP imagery is based on a 3.75' x 3.75' quarter quadrangle with a 300 pixel buffer on all four sides. NAIP quarter quads are formatted to the UTM coordinate system using the North American Datum of 1983. NAIP imagery may contain as much as 10% cloud cover per tile.

The National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) acquires aerial imagery during the agricultural growing seasons in the continental U.S. This "leaf-on" imagery andtypically ranges from 30 centimeters to 100 centimeters in resolution and is available from the naip-analytic Amazon S3 bucket as 4-band (RGB + NIR) imagery in MRF format, on naip-source Amazon S3 bucket as 4-band (RGB + NIR) in uncompressed Raw GeoTiff format and naip-visualization as 3-band (RGB) Cloud Optimized GeoTiff format. More details on NAIP

'The National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) acquires aerial imagery during the agricultural growing seasons in the continental U.S. A primary goal of the NAIP program is to make digital ortho photography available to governmental agencies and the public within a year of acquisition.'