USGS High Resolution Orthoimagery for New York State

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Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: U.S. Geological Survey
Publication_Date: 200504
Title: USGS High Resolution Orthoimagery for New York State
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: SDE raster digital data
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Urban Area Orthoimagery
Issue_Identification: 0.1
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Sioux Falls, SD
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey
Online_Linkage: <https://seamless.usgs.gov>
Description:
Abstract:
"These files contain 2005 digital orthoimagery of NYSDOP County, New York. Image pixel size is 1.0 ft. GSD. Image type is natural color. Image horizontal accuracy is +/-4 ft. at the 95% confidence level. Each file contains an image covering 3000 ft. by 2000 ft. on the ground. Image type is natural color. Image horizontal accuracy is +/-4 ft. at the 95% confidence level. Each file contains an image covering 3000 ft. by 2000 ft. on the ground." An orthoimage is remotely sensed image data in which displacement of features in the image caused by terrain relief and sensor orientation have been mathematically removed. Orthoimagery combines the image characteristics of a photograph with the geometric qualities of a map. The projected coordinate system is UTM with a NAD83 datum. There is no image overlap between adjacent files.
Purpose:
These data have been created as a result of the need for having geospatial data immediately available and easily accessible in order to provide geographic reference for Federal, State, and local emergency responders, as well as for homeland security efforts. Orthoimages also serve a variety of purposes, from interim maps to field references for earth science investigations and analysis. The digital orthoimage is useful as a layer of a geographic information system. These data can be used to provide reference information for Web browsers and for map applications at a scale of 1:100,000 or smaller. Larger scale orthoimagery such as digital orthophoto quadrangles will be more accurate, but often at the expense of timely updates.
Supplemental_Information:
The data obtained through The Seamless Server is considered to be the "best available" data from USGS. Historical data and other data may be obtained by contacting Customer Services, Center for Earth Resources Observation & Science, at 1-800-252-4547. Information in quotation marks, initial processing steps, accuracy reports, and source information is taken directly from the original metadata.Spatial-specific information not available
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 200504
Currentness_Reference: ground condition
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Irregular
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate:-77.60869892
East_Bounding_Coordinate:-77.59386846
North_Bounding_Coordinate:43.16739381
South_Bounding_Coordinate:43.14066118
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: digital spatial data
Theme_Keyword: 1 foot orthoimage
Theme_Keyword: rectified image
Theme_Keyword: orthophoto
Theme_Keyword: natural color orthophoto
Theme_Keyword: orthoimage
Theme_Keyword: image map
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Category
Theme_Keyword: imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
Theme_Keyword: geoscientificInformation
Theme_Keyword: location
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus:
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1995, Countries, dependencies, areas of special sovereignty, and their principal administrative divisions, Federal Information Processing Standard 10-4,): Washington, D.C., National Institute of Standards and Technology
Place_Keyword: United States
Place_Keyword: U.S.
Place_Keyword: US
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus:
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1987, Codes for the identification of the States, the District of Columbia and the outlying areas of the United States, and associated areas (Federal Information Processing Standard 5-2): Washington, D.C., National Institute of Standards and Technology
Place_Keyword: NY
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Geographic Names Information System
Place_Keyword: New York
Access_Constraints:
Any downloading and use of these data signifies a user's agreement to comprehension and compliance of the USGS Standard Disclaimer. Insure all portions of metadata are read and clearly understood before using these data in order to protect both user and USGS interests.
Use_Constraints:
There is no guarantee of warranty concerning the accuracy of the data. Users should be aware that temporal changes may have occurred since this data set was collected and that some parts of this data may no longer represent actual surface conditions. Users should not use this data for critical applications without a full awareness of it's limitations. Acknowledgement of the originating agencies would be appreciated in products derived from these data. Any user who modifies the data is obligated to describe the types of modifications they perform. User specifically agrees not to misrepresent the data, nor to imply that changes made were approved or endorsed by the U.S. Geological Survey. Please refer to <https://www.usgs.gov/privacy.html> for the USGS disclaimer.
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Position: Customer Services Representative
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: USGS Center for Earth Resources Observation & Science
Address: 47914 252nd Street
City: Sioux Falls
State_or_Province: SD
Postal_Code: 57198-0001
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 605/594-6151
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 1-800-252-4547
Contact_TDD/TTY_Telephone: 605/594-6933
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 605/594-6589
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: custserv@usgs.gov
Hours_of_Service: 0800 - 1600 CT, M - F (-6h CST/-5h CDT GMT)
Data_Set_Credit: U.S. Geological Survey
Security_Information:
Security_Classification_System: None
Security_Classification: Unclassified
Security_Handling_Description: N/A
Native_Data_Set_Environment:
Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.1.0.722
Data_Quality_Information:
Attribute_Accuracy:
Attribute_Accuracy_Report:
Radiometry is verified by visual inspection of the digital orthophoto. Slight systematic radiometric differences may exist between adjacent orthoimage files; these are due primarily to differences in source image capture dates and sun angles along flight lines. These differences can be observed in an image's general lightness or darkness when it is compared to adjacent orthoimage file coverages. Tonal balancing may be performed over a group of images during the mosaicking process which may serve to lighten or darken adjacent images for better color tone matching.
Logical_Consistency_Report:
"The dataset contains raster images or digital or digital ortho images so the logical consitency report is not applicable. The dataset contains raster images or digital ortho images so the logical consistency report is not applicable. The file naming convention was supplied by New York state and is based on the co-ordinate pair of the lower left corner of the ortho tile. When the ortho tiles were created the file names were restricted to a numeric value representing the lower left corner of the ortho tile. 10470162 represents a tile with the lower left corner of 1047000, 162000. These tiles were then all renamed using a batch script so that they reflected the N.Y. state standard W_10470162_12_5000_col_2004.tif Consistency of file naming was ensured by the batch process."
Completeness_Report: "The project consisted of 101 final tiles."
Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
The relative accuracy is assembled by comparing rectified images generated from adjacent strips of imagery. The absolute accuracy is assessed by measuring the ground control points in the rectified image against the actual surveyed co-ordinate position. The testing is for overall accuracy.
Quantitative_Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Assessment:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Value: 95
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Explanation: +/-4 ft. at the 95% confidence level (NSSDA)
Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:
Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report: N/A
Lineage:
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: U.S. Geological Survey
Publication_Date: 200504
Title: imagery
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: raster digital data
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Urban Area Orthoimagery
Issue_Identification: 0.1
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Sioux Falls, SD
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey
Type_of_Source_Media: raster digital data
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 2005
Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: imagery
Source_Contribution: Source imagery for tile production
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
"Two camera types were used to gather the source imagery for production of this 1-ft GSD Natural Color orthoimagery. The Rochester Urban Area was captured with a digital camera (Z/I DMC) while the remaining urban areas were captured with film cameras. The separate production processes are described below. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------DIGITAL CAMERA - The aerial triangulation (AT) block for the Rochester NY Urban Region, consisting of 18 flightlines and 864 images with nominal 60% forward overlap and 25% sidelap was captured in one DMC flight mission. The AT adjustment was supported by direct georeferencing data collected via the Applanix POS/AV 510 combined carrier-phase GPS + inertial measurement unit (IMU) and was performed using Z/I Imaging's ISAT (ImageStation Automatic Triangulation) software version 4.3.06. The project was referenced to the North American Datum of 1983/1996 (NAD83/96), New York State Plane Coordinates, Central Zone (3102) horizontally and to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88) vertically. Units are in US Survey Feet. 27 survey control points were included in the adjustment, giving a control point density and geometry with a high level of redundancy for a block adjustment supported by the Applanix POS/AV 510. The initial settings for the full XYZ survey control points were at 0.5 pixel in XY and 0.8 pixel in Z. These were stepped-down in stages of 50% until acceptable final RMS and max residual values were achieved. Their final settings were 0.11 ft in XY and 0.18 ft in Z. Existing DEM data is clipped into manageable files and reviewed for potential problems or needed updates. The existing DEM is densified where needed using ImageStation Stereo Display. Bridge aprons are added or modified to project specifications. The DEM is modified where any significant changes in the terrain are evident. Breaklines are added where necessary to facilitate orthoproduction. The DMC digital imagery is color balanced and converted from the 12 bit to 8 bits per band using ImageStation Raster Utilities. The 8 bit digital imagery is rectified to produce orthophotography using ImageStation OrthoPro. A quality control review is performed on the orthophotos. They are visually inspected for horizontal accuracy, tonal balancing, smears, relief displacement, artifacts, etc. The horizontal accuracy is assessed by comparing each GPS ground control point to the same photoidentifiable X,Y coordinate on the orthophoto and by comparing edge and mosaic seamline matches between adjacent orthophotos looking for displacement. Once the orthophotos have passed the quality control review, seamlines are manually created between the overlapping parts of the orthophotos. These seamlines have a 15 pixel feathering swath that ensures a seamless, color balanced transition between adjacent orthophotos in the mosaic. Multiple orthophoto chips are mosaicked then clipped to final orthophoto tiles. The final mosaic tiles are in uncompressed GeoTIFF format. The mosaic orthophoto tiles are checked for image quality. They are individually inspected for content, misalignments along mosaic seamlines, void areas and artifacts. The remaining errors are corrected using Adobe Photoshop in an interactive editing session. Orthophoto tiles with major errors are rejected. Orthophoto tiles with major errors are reprocessed once the error source is determined. A final LUT is applied to all mosaics to meet client-approved radiometry. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------FILM CAMERAS - 1:14,400 scale aerial photography with airborne GPS was acquired April 9 to May 24, 2005 with a Zeiss RMK TOP 15 Camera and a Wild RC-20 aerial camera system equipped with six focal length lens. The imagery was scanned at 14 microns directly from the aerial negatives. The aero triangulation process utilized an airborne gps survey undertaken during the flight to provided geodetic coordinates and elevation of photo centers. Also, image targeted ground control points where visible on the 2005 aerial flight and were used as control. Aerial triangulation was performed using softcopy workstations and Mira Solutions AT bundle adjustment program, Mira-AT. Details of the aerial triangulation process can be found in the Livingston County, New York 2005 Orthophoto Update Project Aerial Triangulation Report. For the 2002 orthophoto project only minimum DTM was collected in the center area of each aerial photo model creating an uneven distribution of terrain data throughout the project area. This process created what has been called "donut-holes" in the DTM and limited the usefulness of the data set for future ortho photo projects and other applications for this level of DTM. The 2005 project requirement was to fill in these sparse areas of DTM to create a consistent pattern digital terrain points throughout the project area. This was done by using a softcopy workstation with the AMSA-Softcopy program, overlaying the existing DTM on the stereo model and then adding points or breaklines to create a uniform level of digital terrain data. During this process the aerial photography was inspected for new roads and bridges that required collection of a bridge polygon that was used to correct the shape of the bridge during the orthophoto process. The photo inspection was assisted by information provided by Livingston County as to the location of new roadways since 2002. The images were then ortho rectified using Mira Solutions Mira Ortho software. Mira Solutions Mira Mosaic program was used for the mosaicking, color balancing and tiling of the imagery. The Mira Solutions process produced the same effect for bridges as was required to meet the previous ortho photo project. Quality control was maintained throughout the process using internal QA programs within the Mira Solutions suite of orthophoto production software. Final files were then compressed using MrSID. Final deliverables in TIFF format with TFW files and MrSID files where placed on DVD Media."
Process_Date: 2006
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: NYS Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure Coordination
Contact_Person: Tim Ruhren
Contact_Position: NYS GIS Clearinghouse
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 30 South Pearl Street
City: Albany
State_or_Province: NY
Postal_Code: 12207-3425
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 518-474-5212
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 518-4735848
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: nysgis@cscic.state.ny.us
Contact_Instructions: NYS Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure Coordination
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
The metadata were imported and updated for display through the Seamless Data Distribution System at <https://seamless.usgs.gov> Project level metadata are available in several formats: HTML, TEXT, XML, FAQ and SGML.
Process_Date: 2006
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Position: Customer Service Representative
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: USGS Center for Earth Resources Observation & Science
Address: 47914 252nd Street
City: Sioux Falls
State_or_Province: SD
Postal_Code: 57198-0001
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 605-594-6151
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 1-800-252-4547
Contact_TDD/TTY_Telephone: 605-594-6933
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 605-594-6589
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: custserv@usgs.gov
Hours_of_Service: 0800 - 1600 CT, M - F (-6h CST/-5h CDT GMT)
Contact_Instructions:
The USGS point of contact is for questions relating only to the data display and download from this web site. For questions regarding data content and quality, refer to original processor.
Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Raster
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Raster_Object_Type: Pixel
Row_Count: 296000
Column_Count: 354000
Vertical_Count: 1
Spatial_Reference_Information:
Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
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Map_Projection:
Map_Projection_Name: Transverse Mercator
Transverse_Mercator:
Scale_Factor_at_Central_Meridian: 0.999938
Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -78.583333
Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 40.000000
False_Easting: 1148291.666667
False_Northing: 0.000000
Planar_Coordinate_Information:
Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: row and column
Coordinate_Representation:
Abscissa_Resolution: 1.000000
Ordinate_Resolution: 1.000000
Planar_Distance_Units: survey feet
Geodetic_Model:
Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983
Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80
Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000
Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222
Vertical_Coordinate_System_Definition:
Altitude_System_Definition:
Altitude_Datum_Name: North American Vertical Datum of 1988
Altitude_Resolution: 1.000000
Altitude_Distance_Units: feet
Altitude_Encoding_Method:
Explicit elevation coordinate included with horizontal coordinates
Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
Overview_Description:
Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:
For color-infrared and natural color DOQs, a digital number from zero to 255 will be assigned to each pixel but that number will refer to a color look-up table which will contain the RGB red, blue and green (RGB) values, each from zero to 255, for that digital number. Areas where the rectification process is incomplete due to incomplete data (i.e., lack of elevation data, gaps), are represented with the numeric value of zero.
Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation:
U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, 1999, Standards for Digital Orthoimagery: Reston, VA
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Contact_Position: Customer Services Representative
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: USGS Center for Earth Resources Observation & Science
Address: 47914 252nd Street
City: Sioux Falls
State_or_Province: SD
Postal_Code: 57198-0001
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 605/594-6151
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 1-800-252-4547
Contact_TDD/TTY_Telephone: 605/594-6933
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 605/594-6589
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: custserv@usgs.gov
Hours_of_Service: 0800 - 1600 CT, M - F (-6h CST/-5h CDT GMT)
Contact_Instructions:
The USGS point of contact is for questions relating only to the data display and download from this web site. For questions regarding data content and quality, refer to the original processor.
Resource_Description: Downloadable Data
Distribution_Liability:
Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the USGS, no warranty expressed or implied is made by the USGS regarding the use of the data on any other system, nor does the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. Data may have been compiled from various outside sources. Spatial information may not meet National Map Accuracy Standards. This information may be updated without notification. The USGS shall not be liable for any activity involving these data, installation, fitness of the data for a particular purpose, its use, or analyses results.
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Access_Instructions:
The URL <https://seamless.usgs.gov> provides a map interface that allows for data downloads within a customer defined area of interest. Zoom tools are available that can be used to investigate areas of interest on the map interface. The download tool allows the customer to capture layers from the map, utilizing the Seamless Data Distribution System process for downloading. A request summary page is then generated with the download layers listed. By clicking the "download" button on the summary page, a zipped file will be generated that can be saved on the customer's computer. The file can then be unzipped and imported into various user software applications.
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Time_Period_Information:
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Beginning_Date: 2006
Ending_Date: unknown
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Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Position: Customer Services Representative
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: USGS Center for Earth Resources Observation & Science
Address: 47914 252nd Street
City: Sioux Falls
State_or_Province: SD
Postal_Code: 57198-0001
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 605/594-6151
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 1-800-252-4547
Contact_TDD/TTY_Telephone: 605/594-6933
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 605/594-6589
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: custserv@usgs.gov
Hours_of_Service: 0800 - 1600 CT, M - F (-6h CST/-5h CDT GMT)
Contact_Instructions:
The above is the contact information for the USGS Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science in Sioux Falls, SD. This is the digital data storage and distribution center for the USGS. Metadata information can also be obtained through online services using The National Map Viewer, at <https://nationalmap.usgs.gov>
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