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National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) Imagery

Metadata Updated: July 11, 2025

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).

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

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Dates

Metadata Created Date January 31, 2025
Metadata Updated Date July 11, 2025
Data Update Frequency R/P1Y

Metadata Source

Harvested from USDA JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date January 31, 2025
Metadata Updated Date July 11, 2025
Publisher Farm Production and Conservation Business Center
Maintainer
Identifier USDA NAIP Collection Starting 2003
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2025-07-09
Rights true
Category geospatial
Public Access Level public
Data Update Frequency R/P1Y
Bureau Code 000:00
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Data Quality True
Harvest Object Id 3402be3a-ad7d-4363-b625-177536a6f39b
Harvest Source Id d3fafa34-0cb9-48f1-ab1d-5b5fdc783806
Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
Homepage URL https://naip-usdaonline.hub.arcgis.com/
License https://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
Metadata Type geospatial
Old Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -131.0, 52.13, -131.0, 24.76, -66.09, 24.76, -66.09, 52.13, -131.0, 52.13}
Program Code 000:000
Publisher Hierarchy Farm Production and Conservation Business Center > Farm Production and Conservation Business Center
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 604f71723902f3c5e73f01f20ee594fd5562e6f23ad6e9b9ffa560f6b695cafa
Source Schema Version 1.1
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

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