Production Services
Production Services provide film scanning services and digital photographic production support to the FPAC Mission Area.
Products
Historic Film Image Scans – 12.5-micron high resolution film image scans of historical aerial photography collected from 1951 to 2012. Includes:
- Agriculture Stabilization Conservation Service (ASCS/FSA), 1955 - 1994, Film scale of 1:20,000 from 1951 -1970, Film scale 1:40,000 from 1970 – 1994
- US Forest Service (FS), 1951 – 2012 film scale ranging from 1:3,000 to 1:40,000
- Soil Conservation Service (SCS/NRCS), 1955 – 2006, Film scale of 1:20,000 from 1951 - 1970, Film scale 1:40,000 from 1971 – 2006
- National High Altitude Program (NHAP) 1980 – 1987 film scale 1:60,000
- National Agriculture Photography Program (NAPP) 1987 – 2006 film scale 1:40,000
- National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) 2003 – 2009, film scale range of 1:40,000 to 1:60,000
Index Scans – Image scans of historical program photo indices from 1955 – 1994. Line Index scans for all programs from 1980’s to film collection end. An index provides a visual representation of the flight lines or photo overlapped frames for coverage and imagery identification. Standard digital formatted are available and are extensively used to support geospatial data research.
Services
Digital Image Customization – Photographic print and image layout customization services include but are not limited to a single image, merging multiple images or several standalone images intended for display on a single piece of media, resizing, color correcting and a variety of customization options are only limited by software application and customer requirements. Deliverables typically range in size from 10” x 10” to 30” x 40” display products.
Film Digitization – Film scanning service supports the digitization of film image records for government and general public customers. The original film scale determines the ground sampling distance of the scanned image. Our scanning resolution range is 7 to 50 microns in tiled-Tagged Image File Format (TIF) and produces a submeter image resolution typically ranging from 0.25m to 0.71m with file sizes from 0.35 GB to 1.1 GB. The high-resolution images provide the ability to zoom in and enlarge to meet most user’s needs. Years of availability range from 1951 to 2012 depending on the various programs and some years may have already been digitized.
