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Geospatial Data Resources Guide: Imagery Hosted at UW Libraries
WAGDA Image Services
- 1993 Seattle Aerial PhotographySeattle, WA, (1-band, 12 inch, black and white).
- 1993 Snohomish County Aerial PhotographyNorthwestern and central Snohomish County, (1 meter, color).
- 2002 Puget Sound Aerial PhotographyCentral Puget Sound, including Seattle, WA, (12 inch, color).
- 2002 Yakima Aerial PhotographyYakima metropolitan area, (1 meter, color).
- 2009 NAIP Aerial PhotographyWashington State, (4-band, 1 meter).
- 2011 NAIP Aerial PhotographyWashington State, (4-band, 1 meter).
- 2013 NAIP Aerial PhotographyWashington State, (4-band, 1 meter).
This imagery is available using ArcGIS for Server Image Services on WAGDA. 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-gis@uw.edu.
Digital Aerial Photography of Washington: Online
- 2009 NAIP Aerial Photography (County Mosaic)Washington State, mosaic by county, (1 meter, color).
- 2006 NAIP Aerial Photography (County Mosaic)Washington State, mosaic by county, (1 meter, color).
- 2002 Puget Sound OrthophotographyCentral Puget Sound, including Seattle, WA, (12 inch, color).
- 2002 Snohomish County OrthophotographyNorthwestern and central Snohomish County, (1 meter, color).
- USGS Digital Quads and Quarter QuadsWashington State, 1990s various dates, (1 meter, black and white).
Digital Aerial Photography of Washington: Offline
- 2006 NAIP Aerial Photography (index map download)Washington State, (3-band, 18 inch). Current UW students, faculty, and staff may download the above index map and then request individual map tiles for areas of interest by email to uwlib-gis@uw.edu.
- 2002 Yakima County OrthophotographyYakima County, WA, (3-band, 12 inch). Also available on CD in Suzzallo Map Collection (G4283 Y3 A25 2002 Y3).
- 1997 Snohomish County OrthophotographySnohomish County, WA, (1-band, 10 foot). Also available on CD in Suzzallo Map Collection (G4283.S6 A25 svar .S6 ).
Other Sources for Digital Aerial Photography
- Puget Sound River History Project (1930s aerial imagery)
- King County GIS Center Orthophotography Data Catalog (view imagery)
- NOAA Coastal Imagery Viewer (view imagery)
- National Map Viewer (download imagery)
- NASA World Wind (view imagery)
- Google Earth/Google Maps (view imagery)
- Microsoft local.live.com (view imagery)
Connecting to the WAGDA 2.0 Image Services
These services are available to UW students, faculty, staff or anyone with access to the ESRI software ArcGIS. Aerial photos hosted by the UW libraries can be accessed through ArcGIS Server Image Services. In the Catalog pane, under the "Project" tab, right click an empty area of the pane, click "New", point to "New Server", click "New ArcGIS Server" and enter the following URL into the dialog box:
Server URL: https://wagda.lib.washington.edu:6080/arcgis
You can also access the dialog box by going to the "Insert" tab on the ribbon, clicking "Connections," "Server," and then "New GIS Server."
One you have created a connection, browse to the Imagery Services folder in the catalog (under "Servers") to see a list of image services available.
Digital Satellite Imagery
- Washington State 2000 Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM)Washington State partial, (Multispectral, 30 meter; Thermal, 60 meter; Panchromatic, 15 meter). See metadata and scene index provided courtesy of CFR Rural Technology Institute.
- Global Landsat Geocover 2000 & 1990Near-Global, (GeoCover 2000, 15 meter, UTM WGS84; Geocover 1990, 30 meter, UTM WGS84). See indexes to identify tile numbers.
- NASA Landsat Multispectral Scanner (MSS) and Them. Mapper (TM)Washington State partial, MSS and TM scenes compilation, (5- or 6-band, 30 or 60 meter, UTM10 NAD27). Post-processing geometric and radiometric corrections. Also available on cassette tape and CD in Suzzallo Map Collection (G4281.A43.1990.E7).
- Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) 30 arc secondGlobal DEM, SRTM and GTOPO30 compilation, (30 arc second, approx. 1 km). This is version 1. Version 2 is available at NASA.
- Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) 3 arc secondNear-Global DEM from Latitude 57S-61N, (3 arc second, approx. 90 meter, Geo WGS84, .bil format).
Other Sources for Digital Satellite Imagery
- USGS Global Visualization Viewer (GLOVIS)View and purchase ASTER, EO-1, Landsat 35 year Archive, MODIS, and TerraLook.
- USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) CenterPreview and purchase USGS satellite imagery.
- USGS National Map ViewerDownload GIS data, maps, applications, and tools.
- NASA World WindView imagery and download World Wind applications and applets.