Some of you may have heard this and others may not, but USDA is planning
on flying all of Maine this summer for another NAIP collect.  Again this
will be 1m color data, flown between late June and late August for
leaf-on collect.

We have a tremendous opportunity here as well though, as USDA is going
to pay for collection of a fourth band, a near-infrared band useful for
detecting moisture, vegetation differences, and modeling imperviousness.
Since USDA is paying for the collect, the cost to acquire the data is
very low - only the cost of preparing the fourth band, which for Maine
is only $77,000 for the whole state.

We will be formulating a plan to put together these funds during the
next few months - there is no hurry since the data are being collected
regardless.  When we come up with the money then we can get them
processed into a usable format.

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Michael Smith
State GIS Manager
Maine Office of GIS 


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