Remote Sensing Data

Landsat Data

Landsat data is now available free from the USGS EROS Data Center using Earth Explorer external site or GLOVIS external site. Although both sites allow for address searches, a statewide reference map is provided below for defining a data search by WRS-2 external site Path/Row for Landsats 4,5, and 7.



Aerial Photographs

IDWR has an archive of aerial photographs taken by several different sources, including NASA's ER-2 aircraft flying out of NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. The photographs that are not available for download from this web page are available only as film transparencies or paper photos, and not in digital form. Transparency and paper photographs are available at the offices of the Idaho Department of Water Resources, 322 East Front St., Boise, ID 83702.


Location Year Type Scale
Southern Idaho 1975-1983 Color and Color Infrared 1:60,000 scale
Snake River Basin 1986 Color infrared 3-meter pixels
Lower Boise River Valley 1994 and 2000 Color infrared 1.75-meter pixels
Raft River Area 1962 and 1968 B&W  
Payette River Valley 1949 and 1997 B&W, Color Infrared  
Oakley Fan Area 1962 and 1968 B&W