Geospatial Resources : Finding Imagery

Imagery available using ArcGIS for Server Image Services on WAGDA:

• 2013 NAIP Aerial Photography of Washington (4-band, 1 meter), URL: http://wagda.lib.washington.edu:6080/arcgis/rest/services/Imagery_services/NAIP_2013/ImageServer
• 2011 NAIP Aerial Photography of Washington (4-band, 1 meter), URL: http://wagda.lib.washington.edu:6080/arcgis/rest/services/Imagery_services/NAIP_2011/ImageServer
• 2009 NAIP Aerial Photography of Washington (4-band, 1 meter), URL: http://wagda.lib.washington.edu:6080/arcgis/rest/services/Imagery_services/NAIP_2009/ImageServer
• 2002 Color Aerial Photography of Bainbridge (3-band, 6 inch), URL: http://wagda.lib.washington.edu:6080/arcgis/rest/services/Imagery_services/Bainbridge_2002/ImageServer
• 1993 B/W Aerial Photography of Seattle (1-band, 12 inch), URL: http://wagda.lib.washington.edu:6080/arcgis/rest/services/Imagery_services/Seattle_1993/ImageServer

Once you have added the image service to ArcMap, go into the properties to display the footprints.  You should be able to select the rasters you need either from a spatial selection or using the attribute table.  To download the data, select the tiles you want, right click on the layer and choose Data -> Download Selected Rasters.

Need help? Send an email to uwlib-gisatlib@uw.edu.

Aerial photography that is avaible offline.

• 2006 NAIP Aerial Photography (3-band, 18 inch): Current UW students, faculty and staff may download the index map and then request individual image tiles for area of interest by email to uwlib-gisatlib@uw.edu.

• 2002 Yakima County Orthophotography (3-band, 1 foot): On CD in Suzzallo Map Collection ( G4283 Y3 A25 2002 Y3)

• 1997 Snohomish County Ortophotography (1-band, 10 foot): On CD in Suzzallo Map Collection (G4283.S6 1997 .S6)

Other sources for digital aerial photography

• NASA World Wind (viewable imagery)
• Google Earth/Google Maps (viewable imagery)
• Microsoft local.live.com (viewable imagery)
• USGS Seamless Server (downloadable imagery)
• UW Campus Spatial Data Server from RTI (server-side imagery)
• King County GIS Center Orthophotography Data Catalog (licensing and access information)
• Puget Sound River History Project (1930s era aerial imagery for selected areas)

These services are avaible to UW students, faculty, staff  or anyone with access to the ESRI software ArcGIS Desktop. Aerial photos hosted by the UW libraries can access be accessed through ArcGIS Server Image Services. In ArcCatalog under ArcGIS Servers click on "Add ArcGIS Server", choose the "Use GIS services" and enter the following URL into the dialog box:

Service URL: http://wagda.lib.washington.edu:6080/arcgis/rest/services

One you have created a connection, browse to the Imagery Services folder to see a list of image services available.