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Aerial and satellite imagery data for United States

National open imagery Openly licensed aerial orthophotography at 1 m or finer covers about 70% or more of the land area.

The USDA National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) provides public-domain leaf-on four-band orthoimagery of the conterminous United States at 30 cm to 1 m, refreshed for each state on a two- to three-year cycle.

Best open GSD
0.3 m
Latest capture
2023
Datasets
4 · 4 open · 3 free
Region
North America
Last reviewed

Datasets 4

Free is not the same as open. Cost is what you pay to get the data; the licence says what you may do with it. How cost and licence are defined

  • NAIP on AWS (opens in a new tab)

    USDA / Esri (AWS Open Data)

    Cost Paid Licence Open
    • Orthophoto
    GSD
    0.3 m
    Bands
    RGB+NIR
    Acquired
    2010–2023
    Coverage
    Conterminous US; requester-pays S3 buckets (analytic, source, visualisation)
    Licence
    Public Domain with Attribution
    Access
    API
    Formats
    MRF, GeoTIFF, COG
    Link check
    Link OK (HTTP 200),

  • National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) (opens in a new tab)

    USDA Farm Production and Conservation Business Center

    Cost Free Licence Open
    • Orthophoto
    GSD
    0.3 m
    Bands
    RGB+NIR
    Acquired
    –
    Coverage
    Conterminous US, leaf-on, state-by-state cycle of two to three years
    Licence
    Public domain
    Access
    Direct download
    Formats
    GeoTIFF, COG
    Link check
    Link OK (HTTP 200),

Elsewhere in North America