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Imagery and Base Maps

Digital Orthophotography

     name    description type metadata download
Digital Orthophotography Digital aerial photography available at 200m, 100m, 50m, 20m, 5m, 2m, & 1m pixel resolutions Rhode Island's Digital Imagery Server
1997 RIDOT 1:5000 Digital Orthophotography Digital aerial photography from April 1997 with a 2 foot pixel resolution. Available from Rhode Island's Digital Imagery Server
2002 USGS true color orthophotography Digital aerial photography from Spring 2002 for the major urban areas of Northeast Rhode Island. Contact the RIGIS Data Manager at greg@uri.edu to order the CD set.
2003 USDA-FSA National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) 1:12,000 digital true color orthophotography Digital aerial photography from Summer 2003 with a 1 meter pixel resolution of Rhode Island, excluding Block Island.

These data are available for download in both MrSID and GeoTIFF formats,

2003-2004 RIDOT 1:5,000 digital true color orthophotography Digital aerial orthophotography from Spring 2003 and 2004 with a 2 foot pixel resolution.

These data are available for download in both MrSID and GeoTIFF formats,

Georeferenced Map Images

     name    description type metadata download
NOAA Raster Navigational Charts TIFF Image Files of NOAA Raster Navigational Charts for Narragansett Bay and Coastal Rhode Island. These data are available for download in GeoTIFF format.
thumbnail - click for larger image USGS 7.5 Minute Topo Maps TIFF images of scanned 7.5 minute USGS topo quadrangles including all collar information These data are available for download in GeoTIFF format.
thumbnail - click for larger image USGS 7.5 Minute Topo Maps (Collarless) TIFF images of scanned 7.5 minute USGS topo quadrangle. Clipped to quad neatline and contain no collar information. These data are available for download in GeoTIFF format.

Non-georeferenced Historical Aerial Photography

     name    description type metadata download
1939 Digital Aerial Photography Black and white images in MrSid format scanned from contact prints. Images are non-orthocorrected, non-georegistered. Please note: specialized software is required to view these images. Clickable image maps:
Northern RI
Southern RI
Eastern RI
1951-1952 Digital Aerial Photography Black and white images in MrSid format scanned from contact prints. Images are non-orthocorrected, non-georegistered. Please note: specialized software is required to view these images. Clickable image maps:
Northern RI
Southern RI
1962 Digital Aerial Photography Black and white images in MrSid format scanned from contact prints. Images are non-orthocorrected, non-georegistered. Please note: specialized software is required to view these images.

Clickable image maps:
Northern RI
Southern RI

1972 Digital Aerial Photography Black and white images in MrSid format scanned from contact prints. Images are non-orthocorrected, non-georegistered. Please note: specialized software is required to view these images.

Clickable image maps:
Northern RI
Southern RI
Eastern RI
Western RI

1976 Digital Aerial Photography Scanned historical images of statewide aerial photography from 1976 in a MrSid compressed format. Images are non-orthocorrected, non-georegistered. Please note: specialized software is required to view these images.

Clickable image map: RI

1981 Digital Aerial Photography Black and white images in MrSid format scanned from contact prints. Images are non-orthocorrected, non-georegistered. Please note: specialized software is required to view these images.

Clickable image map: RI

1988 Digital Aerial Photography Black and white images in MrSid format scanned from contact prints. Images are non-orthocorrected, non-georegistered. Please note: specialized software is required to view these images.

Clickable image map: RI

1992 Digital Aerial Photography Black and white images in MrSid format scanned from contact prints. Images are non-orthocorrected, non-georegistered. Please note: specialized software is required to view these images.

Clickable image maps:
Northern RI
Southern RI
Eastern RI
Central RI

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