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Massachusetts_Aerial_Imagery_2025_CIR (Map Service)

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Spring 2025 aerial Color-Infrared (CIR) Imagery for Massachusetts using the near inrared, red and green bands. Published as a tile layer at ArcGIS Online by MassGIS.

This layer is based on 8-bit, 4-band, 15 cm resolution (7.5 cm on Cape Cod) JPEG 2000 versions of GeoTiff imagery. Imagery was collected on 14 days, from 3/18/2025 to 4/23/2025, under conditions free from clouds and cloud shadows, smoke, fog, haze, light streaks, snow, ice on water bodies, flooding, excessive soil moisture, and foliage.

Color-infrared (CIR) aerial photography--often called "false color" photography because it renders the scene in colors not normally seen by the human eye--is widely used for interpretation of natural resources. Atmospheric haze does not interfere with the acquisition of the image.

Live vegetation is almost always associated with red tones. Very intense reds indicate dense, vigorously growing vegetation. As plant vigor decreases, the vegetation appears as lighter shades of red and pink, various shades of greens, and possibly tans.
Bare soils appear as shades of white, blue, or green in most agricultural regions. In general, darker shades of each color indicate moister soil.
Man-made features appear in tones that relate to the materials with which they are made. Asphalt roads, for example, are dark blue or black; gravel or dirt roads are lighter colors depending on their composition; and clean concrete roads are light in tone. The colors of buildings are similarly dependent on the materials used to create them.
Water appears as shades of blue, varying from nearly black (clean, clean water) to very pale blue (increasing amounts of sediment). The color of very shallow water is often determined by the material present at the bottom of the water. For example, a very shallow stream with a sandy bottom will appear white due to the high level of sand reflection.

Source: https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-do-different-colors-a-color-infrared-aerial-photograph-represent

Also see the natural color 2025 aerial imagery.

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Spring 2025 aerial Color-Infrared (CIR) Imagery for Massachusetts using the near inrared, red and green bands. Published as a tile layer at ArcGIS Online by MassGIS.

Live vegetation is almost always associated with red tones. Very intense reds indicate dense, vigorously growing vegetation. As plant vigor decreases, the vegetation appears as lighter shades of red and pink, various shades of greens, and possibly tans.
Bare soils appear as shades of white, blue, or green in most agricultural regions. In general, darker shades of each color indicate moister soil.
Man-made features appear in tones that relate to the materials with which they are made. Asphalt roads, for example, are dark blue or black; gravel or dirt roads are lighter colors depending on their composition; and clean concrete roads are light in tone. The colors of buildings are similarly dependent on the materials used to create them.
Water appears as shades of blue, varying from nearly black (clean, clean water) to very pale blue (increasing amounts of sediment). The color of very shallow water is often determined by the material present at the bottom of the water. For example, a very shallow stream with a sandy bottom will appear white due to the high level of sand reflection.

Source: https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-do-different-colors-a-color-infrared-aerial-photograph-represent

Also see the natural color 2025 aerial imagery.

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Copyright Text: MassGIS

Spatial Reference:
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Single Fused Map Cache: true

Capabilities: Map,TilesOnly,Tilemap

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Width: 256
DPI: 96
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Format: Mixed
Compression Quality: 90
Origin:
Spatial Reference:
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Full Extent:

Min Scale: 4622324.434309
Max Scale: 1128.497176

Min LOD: 7
Max LOD: 19

Units: esriMeters

Supported Image Format Types: Mixed

Export Tiles Allowed: false
Max Export Tiles Count: 100000

Resampling: true

Document Info:

Title: Massachusetts 2025 Aerial Imagery - CIR (Tile Service)
Author: MassGIS
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Subject: Spring 2025 aerial Color-Infrared (CIR) Imagery for Massachusetts using the near inrared, red and green bands. Published as a tile layer at ArcGIS Online by MassGIS.
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Keywords: imagery, color infrared, Massachusetts, MassGIS, 2025, ortho, aerial, ImageryFramework