PGC Aerial Photography

PGC Aerial Photography is comprised of an archived geospatial library of county-based USDA NAIP True Color and Color Infrared, 1 and 2-Meter Resolution Aerial Photos flown between 2005 and present.    PGC provides two different aerial photography products, Customized and Unprocessed.  Each serves a very different purpose and is explained below.

What is the advantage of purchasing PGC Customized Aerial Photography?

PGC Aerial Photography is delivered as GeoTiff image format and is delivered on DVDs or External Hard Drives.  The data is customized to accommodate customer-defined map projections/coordinate systems.  Customers find this a key benefit as many mapping programs do not permit the user to re-project raster image files.  Counties are delivered into a neatly partitioned series of smaller, indexed (doqq - quarter quad) files so images sizes are manageable in any mapping program.  This is important to note because many mapping programs are limited by size limits on raster image files.  PGC Aerial Photography is displayed in a seamless fashion.  PGC can also deliver custom areas of interest based on Quadrangles or Lat/Long Coordinates.  This is a great option to cover Basins and Large Areas of Interest at very affordable costs. 

I just need the raw data that can be downloaded from the USDA website.   Why would I purchase the PGC Unprocessed Aerial Photography?

Since we can quickly deliver any part of our NAIP Aerial Photography archive, it saves customers a tremendous amount of time that they would otherwise spend researching to see if the data exists and then spending the time downloading data. Even with the fastest of Internet connections individual counties can often take several hours to download. For example, if a customer desires to obtain NAIP Aerial Photography for the state of Oklahoma they would need to order 77 counties from the USDA website and then download all the data for each county individually. PGC provides a discounted price for the “raw” NAIP Aerial Photography so professionals can easily factor the “time vs. cost” equation and come out ahead.