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Individual purchase orders will be accepted from State, County, Local and Non-Profit agencies till a sufficient number of requests are submitted within your State to provide for a group purchase. This can significantly reduce the cost to a price as low as $695 per license. Single license pricing is available if you have an immediate need. Support and upgrades are included for the first year and an optional support contract will be available in the second year that would continue to provide phone, fax and email support and upgrades for each license. 

Assistance in identifying potential program participants.

Any help in providing the appropriate points of contact would be appreciated to get this offer to all government or non profit entities that you are aware of in your State that may be interested.


USDA APFO 1 Meter Imagery

Below find two maps created by the USDA APFO in Salt Lake City.
The APFO has been and will continue to provide the imagery in MrSID format by County.

         
To view full size, simply click on the respective map

MrSID Generation 3 Format Named Standard by the National Agriculture Imagery Program 

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has named the MrSID Generation 3 image format as the standard to be used for all 2005 Compressed County Mosaic's (CCM).

Last year, the USDA Aerial Photography Field Office (APFO) issued a baseline contract for aerial imagery as part of the National Agriculture Imagery Program. One of the deliverables in the Program was a Compressed County Mosaic, which was required in MrSID Generation 2 Format. This year USDA has modified the Contract to require that all CCM's be delivered in MrSID Generation 3 Format. 

USDA makes CCM's available to the public for a nominal fee. Imagery is acquired on an annual basis to support the USDA Farm Service Agency's crop and commodity programs and must be acquired between May and the end of September 2005. The mosaics are delivered in UTM coordinate systems compressed to MrSID Generation 3 Format (MG3). Customers using it will benefit from the new flexibility that MG3 offers over any other compressed image format due to the ability to reproject and compress the images at different compression ratios within the same mosaic. These features will allow broader use of the imagery by users who work in State Plane coordinate systems and those with limited bandwidth.

"We did extensive due diligence and decided that the time was right to move to MrSID Generation 3 Format. We like the much greater flexibility and functionality it provides in terms of managing and using NAIP imagery," said Kent Williams, USDA.

MrSID (Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database) is a powerful wavelet-based image encoder; optimizer, viewer and file format designed specifically for GIS professionals for true portability of massive images. MrSID technology is the most widely accepted geospatial image format that produces dramatically smaller image files without compromising the quality of the original image allowing for more detailed analysis. Geospatial professionals within government agencies rely on LizardTech's GeoExpress 5.0 with MrSID for crucial decision making such as land planning, tax assessment and national security when in need of rapid access to massive imagery from anywhere in the world.

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Training:
Information & Schedule

Current 2008 Class Schedule:

Introduction to ArcGIS® I, April 7/8, Tucson AZ 

Geoprocessing with ArcGIS ModelBuilder, April 28/29, Peoria AZ

Introduction to Geoprocessing Scripts Using Python, April 30/May 1, Peoria AZ 

Introduction to ArcGIS II,   May 28-30, Tucson AZ 

Geoprocessing with ArcGIS ModelBuilder, Sept 20/21, Altamonte Springs FL 

Introduction to Geoprocessing Scripts Using Python, Sept 24/25 Sanford FL  

Two day class to be determined October 6-7 in Prescott AZ

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