Source for current Aerial or Sat photo of farm

[lj]

I am trying to find a current aerial or satelite photo of my farm and land. I can download from Google Earth but it is not very current. Does Google offer a new shot that I can buy ? Can I pay some agency for this specific location and have them email it or give me a site I can get it online and pay online so I can have it NOW. Thanks LJ

[Tricky Grama]

We sometimes use mapquest-almost a good as google & sometimes even clearer...www.mapquest.com

Patty

[artificer]

Have you tried the http://terraserver-usa.com/ website? Probably the same data, but I know they tend to be higher res than google.

Google satellite photos custom and you'll find a bunch of sites to order from.

Michael

[fantasymaker]

Flashearth.com

[switchman62]

I don't know about buying one but for the areas I look at, It seems the best resolution and most up to date is atwww.weather.com
Click on the interactive map and you can zoom in very close. I don't know how often they update the images but, my property I can see changes made approx a year to 18 months ago.

[Nevada]

Nothing there any newer.

I've been looking for updated satellite imagery also.

[Nevada]

Originally Posted by switchman62

It seems the best resolution and most up to date is atwww.weather.com

Same old stuff. It's the USGS image from 1994 for my vicinity.

[Old Vet]

I got one at the Arkansas State Forestry Commission. It is a 2006 edition. It will be a couple of years before it will be updated. If you want a newer one it is not out yet.

[cfabe]

Get in touch with your county planning department. If anyone has done a recent arial photo survey of the area, they will know about it and may be able to get you a print. generally, satellite photos are not high enough resolution to be of much use, the good photos you see online are all arial from a plane, not satellite.

[Nevada]

Originally Posted by cfabe

Get in touch with your county planning department. If anyone has done a recent arial photo survey of the area, they will know about it and may be able to get you a print. generally, satellite photos are not high enough resolution to be of much use, the good photos you see online are all arial from a plane, not satellite.

Yes, even USGS images are from aircraft. However, now that satellite imagery can be made at higher resolution than the aircraft imagery we've seen from USGS in the past, it's doubtful that the USGS will ever do another aircraft imagery survey. I suspect that they will be releasing high-resolution satellite imagery in the future, since it will save them a bundle.

[Fried Okra]

Search for the GIS site for your county ... the imagery, if they have it, would be included in the layers. They may give you the opportunity to download it via ftp or some such.

[Mike in Ohio]

Go to your local airport (not major one, a county one) and ask around. You may even be able to get a free ride and take your own photos. It might be that offering a little money towards gas might help.

It's worked for me. Just a thought.

Mike

County tax assessor probably has relatively recent aerial photography.

.....Alan.

[Darren]

If your county has a flood plain manager ask them if new aerial photography was used for the new FEMA floodplain maps.

Check with your county emergency services manager to see if new aerial photos were made for 911 addressing.

Call the Farm Service Agency in your county and ask them the date of their newest aerial photos.

[travlnusa]

Your local county ag extention agent will have what you want.

Our office has a program where they will draw the line over your map where ever you tell them to, tell you how many acres are in each block you had laid out, etc.

[Quint]

Microsoft Virtual Earth sometimes has a little more up to date imagery that Google earth does.


USGS should have something newer that 94 imagery I'd think.

[Country Lady]

Have you tried zillow.com?

[WisJim]

Our county government website has a GIS map on-line that has 3 choices for satellite pics, from 1 to over 5 years old, one color and the other 2 B&W, along with lots of other info in the layers on the map, including property lines, owners, elevations, soil types, etc. I have done a little searching and find that some other counties in our state also do this, with more or less information on the maps. I found it by going to the county's website and looking for a map, and I ended up with more than I expected.

[Metagirrl]

LJ- It might be helpful to know at least what state your'e in... I know that in Indiana there were some new high-resolution shots done just a couple of years ago.

http://www.in.gov/igic/projects/indianamap/index.html

AERIAL PHOTOS - 2007 (CENTRAL INDIANA) --
Aerial Photos, 2007 (1-foot and 6-inch resolutions)
Color aerial photos derived from Hamilton County, Hendricks County, Marion County, and the Indy Metropolitan Planning Organization (INDY MPO).
In March and April, 2007, the Indy Metropolitan Planning Organization (INDY MPO), in partnership with the Indianapolis Mapping and Geographic Infrastructure System (IMAGIS), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Hancock County and Johnson County, acquired imagery with a resolution of 1 foot for Boone, Hancock, Johnson, Morgan and Shelby Counties.
Also, in April 2007, Hendricks County, Hamilton County (2007 Hamilton CountyOrthophotography [www.co.hamilton.in.us]), and Marion County individually acquired color orthophotography with a resolution of 6 inches.
More information is available from the Indiana University Spatial Data Portal.

http://www.indiana.edu/~gisdata/local/local_nc.html

[Bandit]

Originally Posted by Country Lady

Have you tried zillow.com?

Country Lady
Thanks for the tip on zillow , that is one that I haven't stumbled across yet , and I thought I had all most all of them .
Bob