Local High-Resolution Imagery Local High-Resolution Imagery

Local High-Resolution Imagery

  1. 3 inch to 1 foot, Ortho-Rectified 3-Band Compressed County Mosaics
  2. 4-Band uncompressed geo-tiffs in tiles for projects since 2013

Beginning in 2012, local county governments working with MCCRSGIS members and partially funded by MDOT and USGS produced local, high-resolution leaf off (January - March) imagery in a consistent format for their local needs. Dependent on the county, resolution of the imagery was higher in the metro areas than in the rural areas.

Color orthoimagery were produced 8-bit per channel, resulting in 32-bit RGB, .tif/.tfw format with a pixel size of 6in (3 inch, 6 inch or 12 inch - dependent on county). Ortho tiles were generated according to the pre-approved County orthoimagery tile layout, with tiles 5,000' X 5,000'. Orthoimages were compressed on a County basis to .sid/.sdw format at a 20:1 compression ratio to develop an MrSID format mosaic.

January 6, 2025: Available Counties by Resolutions Status Map PDF Download

MDEQ 2024 North Mississippi Digital 6 inch Orthophotography now available
Issaquena and Neshoba counties have been updated as of March 21, 2024

These datasets are published in:

  • NAD 1983
  • NSRS2007
  • StatePlane Mississippi
  • West FIPS 2302 or East FIPS 2301

Updated County Mosaic

Statewide - February 2023

See individual county metadata for details.

Below is sample metadata:

County Mosaics (updated January 2024)

Download the County Mosaics packets at: Directory
Directories are now named with year of photography. Some counties have multiple years of imagery.

Color Infrared county files

Color Infrared county files from this data are now available using Bands 4,1,2 from the 4-Band tiffs. NAIP 2016 tiffs were used for George, Harrison, Yalobusha, Tate, and Benton. These counties have no 4-Band local high resolution tiffs. Directory

NOTE: Color Infrared can be drawn by using Bands 4,1,2 for RGB in ArcMap or other GIS software.
4-Band uncompressed .tiffs

The 4-Band uncompressed .tiffs are now available via download. The tiffs are organized by year PDF Map

Metadata and tile layouts are also under the directories below.

Click on year for download directory: 2024 2023 2022 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013

For special requests, view the tile layout subdirectory and send list of requested tiles to:

NOTE: If download times are too slow, please send a hard drive to the address listed at the bottom of this page.

Send list of requested tiles OR county(ies) via email to:

For complete sets of counties, projects, or large orders, send your USB 2.0/3.0 external hard drive to:
MARIS
Steve Walker, Suite 717
3825 Ridgewood Rd
Jackson, MS 39211

For more information contact Steve Walker through email or telephone (601)432-6149