Maine Statewide Orthoimagery Project - During the spring of 2020 new 4-band (R, G, B, and NIR) aerial imagery was acquired covering the entire project area using Leica ADS digital camera systems. All imagery was collected during the 2022 spring flying season during leaf-off conditions for deciduous vegetation in the State of Maine. The sun angle shall be 25-degrees or greater, and streams should be within their normal banks, unless otherwise negotiated. During flight planning and acquisition, a significant effort is made to limit clouds, snow (please note: small amounts of snow such as piles in parking lots, extreme shaded areas, within dense evergreens or unpopulated northern facing slopes may be acceptable), fog, haze, smoke, or other ground obscuring conditions in the imagery. In no case will the maximum cloud cover exceed 5% per image. Within the immediate areas of power plants, factories, or controlled agricultural burns some steam or smoke and/or shadows may be visible on imagery. Woolpert produced new 8-bit, 4-band stacked color digital orthoimagery files in GeoTIFF format with TFW “world file” at a 45cm (18-inch), 30cm (12-inch), 15cm (6-inch) and 7.5cm (3-inch).

The Maine GeoLibrary Board has developed a statewide, 5-year, rotating orthoimagery acquisition program for Maine to facilitate state, regional and local government GIS base mapping in an efficient and cost-effective program. The State of Maine will use digital orthoimagery for the development of various base map products in a computerized GIS that will support the needs of the state and multiple stakeholders through applications, such as, multi-jurisdictional homeland security mapping applications, state and county emergency management applications, regional and local planning, state and local public safety applications, economic development and other GIS business objectives.

Maine Statewide Orthoimagery Project - During the spring of 2020 new 4-band (R, G, B, and NIR) aerial imagery was acquired covering the entire project area using Leica ADS digital camera systems. All imagery was collected during the 2022 spring flying season during leaf-off conditions for deciduous vegetation in the State of Maine. The sun angle shall be 25-degrees or greater, and streams should be within their normal banks, unless otherwise negotiated. During flight planning and acquisition, a significant effort is made to limit clouds, snow (please note: small amounts of snow such as piles in parking lots, extreme shaded areas, within dense evergreens or unpopulated northern facing slopes may be acceptable), fog, haze, smoke, or other ground obscuring conditions in the imagery. In no case will the maximum cloud cover exceed 5% per image. Within the immediate areas of power plants, factories, or controlled agricultural burns some steam or smoke and/or shadows may be visible on imagery. Woolpert produced new 8-bit, 4-band stacked color digital orthoimagery files in GeoTIFF format with TFW “world file” at a 45cm (18-inch), 30cm (12-inch), 15cm (6-inch) and 7.5cm (3-inch).

The Maine GeoLibrary Board has developed a statewide, 5-year, rotating orthoimagery acquisition program for Maine to facilitate state, regional and local government GIS base mapping in an efficient and cost-effective program. The State of Maine will use digital orthoimagery for the development of various base map products in a computerized GIS that will support the needs of the state and multiple stakeholders through applications, such as, multi-jurisdictional homeland security mapping applications, state and county emergency management applications, regional and local planning, state and local public safety applications, economic development and other GIS business objectives.