The Utah GIS community has another opportunity to develop partnerships to leverage federal funds for acquiring aerial imagery in 2009. 

The USGS will support the acquisition of one foot imagery along the Wasatch Front roughly from Spanish Fork to Brigham City and the Dugway Proving Ground. A pdf-based map shows the specific areas that USGS will fund within the light green boundary. 

Through our partnership for the 2006 imagery, we were able to significantly increase the area covered as well as upgrading to a better resolution.  We have an opportunity to use partnerships to aquire specific areas if your agency is interested in participating.   Generally the better pricing was based on increasing the size of the areas that were contiguous.  The flight would be in the spring of 2009 for the USGS areas.  Vendor(s) will be selected through the state's purchasing processes.  An invitation to be will be issued mid-Oct. that requests pricing for one-foot and six-inch natural color imagery for various sizes of acquisition areas.  Potential partners will be able to use this pricing matrix to determine what areas they would like to acquire.  By the end of December 2008 all partnership agreements must be signed to allow the AGRC to complete contracts with selected vendors.

We have some time to get the details worked out, including getting your input to define the specs for the products, but would like to begin identifying partners. If your agency is interested in participating, please contact:

Jeannie Watanabe, AGRC
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