Dataset Identification:

Resource Abstract:
The U.S. Geological Survey's Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC) collects aerial photography of the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS) floodplain on a regular basis. These data are used to support the Center's long-term goals of understanding the UMRS and developing useful products for the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program (LTRMP). In 2000, 1:16,000-scale true color aerial photos were collected on the Mississippi River from Cairo, IL to Minneapolis, MN and the on Illinois River from its confluence with the Mississippi near Grafton, IL to Lake Michigan/Chicago, IL. The photos were collected using a 60% stereo overlap between photos in the same flight line and a 30% overlap between flight lines. At the time this document was prepared, UMESC was in the process of scanning, georeferencing and compiled approximately every other photo into georeferenced mosaics for the navigation pools. These mosaics are served as compressed .sid images, so they'll be easier to download vial the Internet. Note: While the photos have been georeferenced, they have not been orthorectified.
Citation
Title 2000 Aerial Photo Mosaics - Upper Mississippi River System -- Pool 5a
publication  Date   2001-08-27
presentationForm  imageDigital
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  John C Nelson
cited responsible party -
organisation Name
Contact information
Linkage for online resource
URL:http://www.umesc.usgs.gov/data_library/photographs/2000_photo_mosaics.html
Topic Category:  imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
Theme keywords (theme):
aerial photo
aerial photography
true color
3-band
mosaic
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Location keywords:
Upper Mississippi River System
Illinois
Illinois River
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purpose:
The Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center administers the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program (LTRMP), authorized under the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-662). The mission of the LTRMP is to provide decision makers with information to maintain the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS) as a viable large river ecosystem given its multiple-use character. The long-term goals of the Program are to understand the system, determine resource trends and impacts, develop management alternatives, manage information, and develop useful products. The collection and distribution of high-resolution aerial photography aids the Center in meeting these goals.
Resource language:  eng; USA
Resource progress code:  completed
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency:  notPlanned
Constraints on resource usage:
Constraints
Use limitation statement:
Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the accuracy or utility of the data on any other system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. This disclaimer applies both to individual use of the data and aggregate use with other data. It is strongly recommended that these data are directly acquired from a U.S. Geological Survey server, and not indirectly through other sources which may have changed the data in some way. It is also strongly recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of the metadata file associated with these data. The U.S. Geological Survey shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein.
Constraints on resource usage:
Legal Constraints
use constraint:  otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Use Constraints: Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the accuracy or utility of the data on any other system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. This disclaimer applies both to individual use of the data and aggregate use with other data. It is strongly recommended that these data are directly acquired from a U.S. Geological Survey server, and not indirectly through other sources which may have changed the data in some way. It is also strongly recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of the metadata file associated with these data. The U.S. Geological Survey shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein.
Constraints on resource usage:
Legal Constraints
Access Constraints  otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Access Constraints: Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the accuracy or utility of the data on any other system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. This disclaimer applies both to individual use of the data and aggregate use with other data. It is strongly recommended that these data are directly acquired from a U.S. Geological Survey server, and not indirectly through other sources which may have changed the data in some way. It is also strongly recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of the metadata file associated with these data. The U.S. Geological Survey shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein.
Spatial representation type code:  grid
Processing environment:  Native Dataset Environment: Environment as of Metadata Creation: Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 10.2 (Build 3552) Service Pack [N/A] (Build [N/A])
Resource extent
Geographic Extent
Geographic Bounding Box
westBoundLongitude  -91.864616
eastBoundLongitude  -91.642763
northBoundLatitude  44.226206
southBoundLatitude  44.042743
Temporal Extent
2000-08-05 2000-09-20
Additional information on resource:
In 1989, UMESC and the LTRMP began collecting aerial photos of the Upper Mississippi River System from Cairo, IL to Minneapolis, MN and the Illinois River from its confluence with the Mississippi near Grafton, IL upstream to Joliet, IL. In years past the extent was road/railroad to road/railroad. In 2000, the area photographed was expanded to bottom of the bluff to the bottom of the bluff.
Credits:
US Army Corps of Engineers Long Term Resource Monitoring Program, an element of the Upper Mississippi River Restoration- Environmental Management Program and USGS's Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
point of contact - pointOfContact
individual Name John C Nelson
organisation Name  U.S. Geological Survey, Midwest Region
position Name Biologist
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 608-781-6370
Fax 608-783-6066
Address
2630 Fanta Reed Road, La Crosse, WI, 54603 Country US
electronic Mail Addressjcnelson@usgs.gov
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Grid spatial representation

number of grid dimensions: 2
Grid axis property:
Grid Dimension
Dimension Name:  row
Dimension Size 10059
Grid Dimension
Dimension Name:  column
Dimension Size 8723
cell geometry type:  point
transformation parameter availability:
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Scope of quality information
scope level  dataset
Resource lineage description
AbsoluteExternalPositionalAccuracy
name Of Measure Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
evaluation Method Description  A formal accuracy assessment of the horizontal positional information in the data set has not been conducted.
AbsoluteExternalPositionalAccuracy
name Of Measure Vertical Positional Accuracy Report
evaluation Method Description  A formal accuracy assessment of the vertical positional information in the data set has either not been conducted, or is not applicable.
Completeness Commission
evaluation Method Description  Data set is considered complete for the information presented, as described in the abstract. Users are advised to read the rest of the metadata record carefully for additional details.
Completeness Omission
evaluation Method Description  Data set is considered complete for the information presented, as described in the abstract. Users are advised to read the rest of the metadata record carefully for additional details.
ConceptualConsistency
measure Description  No formal logical accuracy tests were conducted.

Resource distribution information

Distributor
distributor contact - distributor
individual Name John C Nelson
organisation Name  U.S. Geological Survey, Midwest Region
position Name Biologist
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 608-781-6370
Fax 608-783-6066
Address
2630 Fanta Reed Road, La Crosse, WI, 54603 Country US
electronic Mail Addressjcnelson@usgs.gov
Standard ordering process
fees None. No fees are applicable for obtaining the data set.
Format
Format name
Format version
Digital Transfer Options
Linkage for online resource
URL:http://www.umesc.usgs.gov/data_library/photographs/2000_photo_mosaics.html
Metadata data stamp:  2015-02-02
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency:  annually
notes: This metadata was automatically generated from the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata standard (version FGDC-STD-001-1998) using the 2012-06-20T17:21:00 version of the FGDC RSE to ISO 19115-2 transform.
Metadata Constraints
Legal Constraints
Access Constraints  otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Metadata Use Constraints: Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the U.S. Geological Survey, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the accuracy or utility of the data on any other system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. This disclaimer applies both to individual use of the data and aggregate use with other data. It is strongly recommended that these data are directly acquired from a U.S. Geological Survey server, and not indirectly through other sources which may have changed the data in some way. It is also strongly recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of the metadata file associated with these data. The U.S. Geological Survey shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein.
Metadata contact - pointOfContact
individual Name John C Nelson
organisation Name  U.S. Geological Survey, Midwest Region
position Name Biologist
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 608-781-6370
Fax 608-783-6066
Address
2630 Fanta Reed Road, La Crosse, WI, 54603 Country US
electronic Mail Addressjcnelson@usgs.gov
Metadata scope code  dataset
Metadata language  eng; USA
Metadata character set encoding:   utf8
Metadata standard for this record:  ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data
standard version:  ISO 19115-2:2009(E)
Metadata record identifier:  5fc1aebf-0ebf-49fa-b69a-a6c88f230204

Metadata record format is ISO19139-2 XML (MI_Metadata)