Aerial Photographs
Access the Orthoimagery collection the following ways:
- Browse the collection online through the
- Montana Air Photo Browser
- Montana Digital Atlas
- Montana State Library web map services
- Ordering Aerial Photos - Users can order aerial photos in TIFF format.
Statewide Color Photographs
U.S. Farm Services Agency National Agricultural Imagery Program (NAIP), 1-meter resolution. NAIP is the National Agricultural Imagery Program administered through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Production and Conservation Business Center (FPAC-BC) Geospatial Enterprise Operations (GEO) Branch.
These photos have been compressed from the original quarter-quad tiles and provided in the MrSID MG3 or MG4 format which is a compressed file format to allow for easier data transfer. MrSID MG4 is supported in ArcGIS 10.1 and newer.
The downloadable products are multi-band images with three visible and one near-infrared wavelength bands, and an alpha band for identifying no-data areas.
Most software will automatically display the first three bands as a natural-color image.
To view the imagery as color infrared (CIR or false color), use band four as the red image, band one as the green, and band two as the blue.
Click on a county in the map below to download the 3 or 4-band county mosaic images of the area, or download the county mosaic images directly from the ftp site.
| NAIP Collection Metadata | Photo Dates and Tile Index Shapefiles | Web Service | Download from FTP | Coordinate System |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NAIP 2021 | Download Files | 2021 | NAIP 2021 4-band MG4 | UTM NAD83 |
| NAIP 2019 | Dates | Index | 2019 | NAIP 2019 4-band MG4 | UTM NAD83 |
| NAIP 2017 | Download Files | 2017 | NAIP 2017 4-band MG4 | UTM NAD83 |
| NAIP 2015 | Dates | Index | 2015 | NAIP 2015 4-band MG4 | UTM NAD83 |
| NAIP 2013 | Dates | Index | 2013 | NAIP 2013 4-band MG4 | UTM NAD83 |
| NAIP 2011 | Dates | Index | 2011 | NAIP 2011 4-band MG3 | State Plane NAD83 HARN |
| NAIP 2009 | Dates | Index | 2009 | NAIP 2009 4-band MG3 | UTM NAD83 |
| NAIP 2005, Natural Color | Dates | Index | 2005, NC | NAIP 2005 3-band Natural Color MG3 | UTM NAD83 |
| NAIP 2005/2006, Color Infrared | Dates | Index | 2005, CIR | NAIP 2005/2006 3-band Color Infrared MG3 | State Plane NAD83 |
Download NAIP County Mosaics
Other Aerial Photos
- Statewide Black and White Photographs, 1990-2003
- Statewide Historic Imagery (Mid 20th Century), 1946-1977
- US/Canada Border Photographs, 2009
- Helena, 2006
- Helena, 2004
- Butte, 2002
- Gallatin Valley, 2001
Flathead Basin
Yellowstone River
- 2011 Stillwater, Yellowstone, Treasure, Rosebud, Custer, Prairie, Dawson, Richland, Williams, and McKenzie Counties. These files are quite large (2-15 Gb). Please contact us if you are unable to download these files and need us to send them to you.
- 2007 Sweet Grass, Treasure, Rosebud, Custer, Prairie, Richland, and McKenzie Counties
- 2004 Stillwater, Yellowstone (west), Yellowstone (east), and Dawson Counties
- 2001 Color Infrared
- 1999, Park County - North half and South half
- 1997 Flood
- 1977, Glendive to ND Line
- 1976
- 1973, Park County
- 1954, Park County
- 1950
More Aerial Photo Sources
- U.S. Geological Survey Aerial Photo Finder
- U.S. Dept of Agriculture Aerial Photography Field Office
- NRCS Geospatial Data Gateway
- Montana Department of Transportation, Photogrammetry section: 406-444-6321
- Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, Office of Information Technology: 406-444-0583
