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National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) Imagery
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).
Complete Metadata
| @type | dcat:Dataset |
|---|---|
| accessLevel | public |
| accrualPeriodicity | R/P1Y |
| bureauCode |
[
"000:00"
]
|
| contactPoint |
{
"fn": "United States Department of Agriculture, Farm Production and Conservation Business Center, Geospatial Enterprise Operations (FPAC-BC-GEO)",
"@type": "vcard:Contact",
"hasEmail": "mailto:GEO.Sales@usda.gov"
}
|
| dataQuality |
true
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| description | 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). |
| distribution |
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"title": "Web interactive view ISO metadata organized for easy reading by humans",
"accessURL": "https://geodata.nal.usda.gov/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/e2442795-2136-424f-afd1-291397b51c3d/formatters/xsl-view?root=div&view=advanced",
"conformsTo": "http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gss",
"description": "Displayed in the National Agricultural Library GeoData Catalog"
},
{
"@type": "dcat:Distribution",
"title": "NAIP GeoHub Information Site",
"accessURL": "https://naip-usdaonline.hub.arcgis.com/",
"description": "This is the main GeoHub page for NAIP. It connects to search, discovery, updates, and visualization of the name imagery. It also provides additional catalog, time/date of acquisition, information sheet, coverage maps from 2002 to the present, image services information, and resources for data download."
},
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"@type": "dcat:Distribution",
"title": "ISO Geospatial metadata direct access in machine readable format",
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"conformsTo": "http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmd",
"description": "The file is the XML representation of ISO content and format intended for automated processing, cataloging, and sharing.",
"downloadURL": "https://geodata.nal.usda.gov/geonetwork/srv/api/records/e2442795-2136-424f-afd1-291397b51c3d/formatters/xml"
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]
|
| identifier | USDA NAIP Collection Starting 2003 |
| keyword |
[
"Imagery Theme",
"NGDA",
"NGDA Imagery Theme",
"NGDAID106",
"National Geospatial Data Asset",
"North America",
"State",
"US",
"united states"
]
|
| landingPage | https://naip-usdaonline.hub.arcgis.com/ |
| language |
[
"en-US"
]
|
| license | https://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/ |
| modified | 2025-07-09 |
| programCode |
[
"000:000"
]
|
| publisher |
{
"name": "Farm Production and Conservation Business Center",
"@type": "org:Organization",
"subOrganizationOf": {
"name": "Farm Production and Conservation Business Center",
"@type": "org:Organization"
}
}
|
| rights |
"true"
|
| spatial |
"{"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-131.0, 52.13], [-131.0, 24.76], [-66.09, 24.76], [-66.09, 52.13], [-131.0, 52.13]]]}"
|
| temporal | 2003-01-01/2023-01-01 |
| theme |
[
"geospatial"
]
|
| title | National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) Imagery |
