If you used google earth pro on a computer, it sometimes defaults to an image from 1985. If you click on that date indicator in the lower left corner, a slide bar pops up in the upper right corner, that will allow you to select another date. Depending on your location you can probably get up to 2021 images.
NAIP - National Agricultural Imagery Program. New imagery is acquired on a 3 to 5 year cycle at the state level.
I have google earth pro on work computer. 2016 is the most recent image. They don't like to fly over me for some reason.
Thanks Dan. How do you access it? I'm on the NAIP site and it sends me to arcgis but the aerials on that are old as well. Do I need to access through the state?
Depends what you are willing to do...and by that I mean how hard do you want to look for an application that serves NAIP? NAIP is built for use in ESRI's ArcGIS applications. There once was a free dumbed-down version available. There's free GIS software. QGIS I think. You might find the most recent NAIP in some of the NRCS applications like WebSoilSurvey. USGS has a viewer that uses NAIP. Don't know how up to date it is with imagery. There's lots of opportunity but sometime you need to turnover a lot of rocks to find it.
Thanks Dan.Depends what you are willing to do...and by that I mean how hard do you want to look for an application that serves NAIP? NAIP is built for use in ESRI's ArcGIS applications. There once was a free dumbed-down version available. There's free GIS software. QGIS I think. You might find the most recent NAIP in some of the NRCS applications like WebSoilSurvey. USGS has a viewer that uses NAIP. Don't know how up to date it is with imagery. There's lots of opportunity but sometime you need to turnover a lot of rocks to find it.
Here's to the FSA Aerial Photography field office:
https://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/aerial-photography/imagery-programs/naip-imagery/
USGS:
https://www.usgs.gov/core-science-systems/national-geospatial-program/national-map
Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access:
Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access | Data Summary
www.pasda.psu.edu
I know it's a lot! There's a lot out there...I, personally, am a ArcGIS guy. Google Earth is my lite GIS!
Oh! And how could I forget!
https://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/
You'll find download access to NAIP here, but you still need an application to read it. Maybe Google Earth?
Thanks, that's what I did. Need to watch some more tutorials to learn some more tricks.
You know it’ll calculate acreage, too, right?
Yep. To clarify, I used google earth after creating this thread. Pretty slick. I need to learn how to input property boundaries but mine is a simple square 40 so i can draw it very close.
