Remote Sensing

Remote Sensing Data

Landsat Data and Aerial Photographs

Landsat Scenes of the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer

Click on the image to see a list of IDWR Landsat scenes covering the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer. Landsat data can be downloaded from INSIDE Idaho.

IDWR has Landsat data in the form of 1:100,000-scale quads, as individual scenes by path-row, and
as state-wide mosaics.

The relationship between Landsat path-rows and the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer is illustrated
below. Click on a path-row polygon to get a list of ESPA scenes.

Aerial Photographs

DWR 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