# Presentation: 526704

## National Agriculture Imagery ProgramNAIP Informational Meeting

**July 19, 2006**
**Washington DC**
**Shirley Hall**
**GIS Program Manager**
**Farm Service Agency**
**Shirley.Hall@wdc.usda.gov**

## Today’s NAIP Meeting

- Program Background
- Description and Specifications
- Product Distribution
- Successes and Challenges
- Program Changes under Consideration
- Partners Scenarios
- Contract and Partnership Information

## FSA’s Mission is to...

**FSA’s Mission is to...**

## The Old Way of Doing Business...

- Pen and Pencil

- Planimeters

- Wheel and Chain

- Hard Copy Maps

- 35mm slides

- Legacy tabular systems

## How Our Service Centers Would Implement GIS

- Digital updates for farm makeup changes and land use
- GIS based crop reporting and compliance applications
- Identification and tracking of disaster events
- Conservation planning and tracking
- Producer and partner direct access to information.

## What Needed to be in Place?

**Digital orthophotography mosaicked into a seamless county view.**
- Digitized farm and field boundaries called Common Land Units (CLU).
**Yearly digital compliance imagery.**
- Hardware, software and applications.

## FSA’s Imagery Acquisition Strategy

- Annually acquire 1 and 2 meter resolution digital ortho imagery in Natural Color.
- Flown during the summer growing season.
- National coverage.
- Base replacement updates on a 5 year cycle.

-  Approximately twenty   	percent 1 meter and eighty 	percent 2 meter resolution 	imagery each year.

## National Agriculture Imagery Program

**National Agriculture Imagery Program**

**Combines Innovative**** **
- Program Management
- Technology Integration
- Contract Management

## Dual imagery acquisition program.  (1 meter replacement and 2 meter resolution compliance imagery products for farmlands.)
Amount of imagery flown in one year.
Extremely quick product delivery for not only the compliance product (30 days), but also the 1 meter replacement product (less than 1 year as apposed to 2-3 years with previous acquisition programs.) 
FSA’s replacement imagery strategy is to fly 20% (approximately10 States) each year.  

**Amount of imagery flown** in one year.
**Extremely quick product delivery** for not only the compliance product (30 days), but also the 1 meter replacement product (less than 1 year as apposed to 2-3 years with previous acquisition programs.)
**FSA’s replacement imagery strategy **is to fly 20% (approximately10 States) each year.

**NAIP is breaking barriers in imagery acquisition:**

## Original RFP Requirements

**Counties:  1,038**
**DOQQs:   64,282 Square Miles:  816,555**

## 2004 National Agriculture Imagery Program

**2004 National Agriculture Imagery Program**

**2004**
**REQUIREMENTS**

**35 States**
**2,089 Counties**
**132,549 DOQQs**
**1,808,016 Square Miles**

## 9 1-Meter States 

- 9 1-Meter States
- 23 2-Meter States

## Slide 13

## 5 Year Cycles – 1 Meter Imagery

## How FSA Uses NAIP

- 2 Meter Compliance Imagery
- Effectively monitor program compliance
- Verify planted and reported acres
- Interim change detection, updates and day-to-day operations
- 1 Meter Replacement Imagery
- Farm and field record maintenance
- Field measurement work
- Land use/Crop Reporting
- Accurate damage assessment in the event of disasters
- Managing Farm Loan Programs and Collateral

## CLU/Farm Records Maintenance

**CLU/Farm Records Maintenance**

**Compliance Activities**

**Crop Reporting **

## Conservation Reserve Program

**Conservation Reserve Program**

**Farm Loan Program Support**

## Just a Few of the NAIP Benefits

- Significantly reduces the time it takes FSA local offices to complete compliance tasks.
- Supports day-to-day program administration (farm maintenance, crop reporting, change detection, disaster events, appraisals, etc.)
- Provides effective central acquisition program management using a best value, multi-year contract.
- Used by Federal, State and local partner agencies in agriculture, conservation, property, and law enforcement programs.
- Used by non-contributing agencies in USDA, other Federal, State and local entities.

## Challenges

- Programmatic
- Adequate and Timely Coverage
- Reengineering and Development
- Data consistency across the nation
- Budget Shortfalls
- Always Need More Partnerships

## How Does NAIP 
fit into 
Imagery for the Nation?

- How Does NAIP
- fit into
- Imagery for the Nation?

## 	Yearly 1-Meter Natural Color, Leaf-On Coverage for lower 48 States.
	3 year cycle for HI, Insular areas and Territories.
	5 year cycle for Alaska (USGS manages).
	CIR, 4 Band and Increase Horizontal Accuracy Buy-ups.

- 	3 year cycle for HI, Insular areas and Territories.
- 	5 year cycle for Alaska (USGS manages).
- 	CIR, 4 Band and Increase Horizontal Accuracy Buy-ups.

**NAIP is a Key Component**