If you do GIS in the US, a great resource for free imagery in 1 meter or 0.6 meter resolution is the NAIP public imagery program, which does a surprisingly good job of covering most of the US every three years or so with four band (R,G,B and near infrared) imagery. It can be a hassle downloading NAIP imagery from Earth Explorer and similar sites, so it's useful to be able to directly download NAIP files of interest from the USGS archives on Amazon AWS. Two new resources that will help: 1. Example: Create USGS File Names with Transform - A topic that explains NAIP file names and how to create an index of NAIP file name stems from published USGS indices. This also has great examples of using the new Transform workflow. Although this is a long topic for showing everything step by step, you can perform the whole thing on nationwide data in under ten minutes. 2. NAIP_file_name_grid.mxb - A new project published in the downloads pages for Viewer and Release 9 that provides the final, nationwide result of the transformations from the topic above, in a user friendly version for Viewer users. See the Read Me comments in that project for workflow tips. If you like NAIP, get a bigger hard disk! :-) PS: NAIP files on Amazon AWS are highly compressed in jp2 format, which is a slow format to import (Manifold uses a third party library, same as ECW). Once they're in a project and merged into a big image, you can save the project and it's off to the races. But they link very quickly. Also, when using jp2 you have to use the Style pane to switch them to using RGB.
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