Indiana Statewide High-Resolution Aerial Imagery from Summer 2025

High-resolution 6-inch (15 cm) leaf-on digital orthoimagery covering the entire state of Indiana. The imagery was captured during the summer of 2025 and features enhanced horizontal accuracy. It is provided by the Indiana Geographic Information Office (GIO) as public-domain data hosted on AWS in GeoTIFF, JPEG, and Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) formats.

Use Cases

• Land cover classification based on high-resolution leaf-on imagery.
• Urban planning and development monitoring based on statewide orthoimagery.
• Environmental change detection based on imagery captured during a specific season.
• Creating or updating basemaps for web and GIS applications based on cloud-optimized streaming formats.

Strengths

• High 6-inch (15 cm) ground sample distance resolution.
• Statewide coverage of Indiana.
• Imagery captured during a known time period (summer 2025).
• Available in cloud-optimized GeoTIFF (COG) format for efficient streaming.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to a single 'leaf-on' summer season.

Provenance

Source

Indiana Geographic Information Office (GIO)

Collection Method

Aerial imagery capture and orthorectification.

Time Range

Summer 2025

Freshness

Data is from summer 2025; last update date for the catalog is unknown.

Geography

State of Indiana, USA