aerial photos to help find new plots

[Guest]

Thought you outdoor growers may find these sites helpfull. The first two are of the united states, the second link is color photos.

The world wide one isent to great, most likely because I am from the states and cant really figgure out what you would call something like this in your country.

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ b/w photos, w/ topograph maps

http://terrafly.com/ color photos of the us

http://www.terraserver.com/ world wide, hit image search on the site to view the photos.

I hope you find these to be helpfull in your search. WOLF

 

[lemonade]

Yea I use google earth.

 

[Guest]

I tried google earth, yet I cant seem to figure out how to zoom in to get a nice picture of the area. All I get is a green/brown shaded areas, maby my comp is to old to use it properly? WOLF

 

[Jiant_J]

yea. GE is definitely system dependent, its a very complex engine with many layers. the best way to max performance and viewing capability is to turn off all possible layers and shrink the window.. if you can do that .. you may get a pretty decent pic.. try upgrading direct x - JJ

 

[PureSativa420]

i believe to find a new plot you need to actually go out and explore not look on computer screens or sat photos

 

[HappyHemphog]

The Earth hasn't been photographed at the best resolutions over all the surface. Currently the highest resolutions you get are in the vacinity of larger metropolitan areas.

If your trying to zoom in on some remote area of wilderness, don't expect much detail at the highest zoom.

Cheers!
Hempy

 

[Jiant_J]

I actually use a combo of all of these. the terraserver usa has a great topographical map of my area, that gives me an idea of the terrain, hit the topo tab, and it'll give you the topographical mapping, with ft above sea level, forests as green and almost all bodies of water. the terraserver.com is great for high res images, then finally i hit up the mapquest, and look at the roads around. I dont know if this'll work, but try calling the white pages, say your friend lives on (whatever road near where you grow) and find out how many people live in the area. Also, google earth has some demographic features - their waterbodies layer is crap - almost nothing on it..
- also, looking at some of the aerial maps will help with understanding future development(if theyre recent), usually the color of soil will give that away, because the area i live in is under quite some development, so i gotta go quite far for some untouched land.
-JJ
PS. sory for the double post, but i thought i should add this.

 

[Guest]

i believe to find a new plot you need to actually go out and explore not look on computer screens or sat photos

No doubt you do, This is more of a let you scout it out type deal, know what I meen? This is only ment to give you a birds eye view before you go in to help find water sources and get a idea of the area. WOLF

 

[Jiant_J]

Exactly!!!!

Exactly!!!!

totally agree.. the spot is never really perfect until you've checked out all angles, and one of them is a good sat image to show you the area around, the population density, etc. to give you an idea of how desirable the area is as a hiking trail. You can tell a lot from the way somehting looks on the map. For example, if its between 2 very dirt roads, and you can see that its got a steep climb, and a small stream runs through it.. it looks good, but you never know what you find there..

sat images are also useful for you to figure out decent easy escape routes, if you plant close to the top of the hill, then you gotta know a way down every side of the hill know exactly where to step if its steep enough.. like i sed, one of those sites has a topographical mapping of the us. very useful for finding the best line of descent, the best irrigation routes, the closest place to park/get dropped off to deliver nutes, the area with the perfect grading to get light at just the right angle, these images are laced with useful info about the landscape. Also, sat images will show you the tree coverage very well.. so, if you gotta run, you can plan a good place to hide..

i know i always get pretty detailed and retarded in my explainations.. so sorry.. .. pce
-jj

 

[all_is_1]

YES!! This is what I've been looking for. I had three sweet outdoor plots last year and all were taken. . . So sad. At least one made the evening news. 20 plants, 7-8 feet tall, at least 8 feet around, stalks were like small trees. . . That one was in surburbia but got spotted by a flyover--who knew that LEO did flyovers in suburbia? Not me. Also, I highly reccommend NOT growing under power lines. All 3 were near or under huge powerlines and that is evidently a very stupid place to grow. Live and Learn. Jiant_J, I'm all for the detail--thanks. Peace

 

[Reibsi]

Aerial Photos

Aerial Photos

I don`t know if any of you have ever seen these but they are the bomb when it comes to finding new sites. They cost me about $8.00 a piece and are worth every cent. The steroscopic viewer allows one to pear deep inside the forest. They give you a 3D view of everything....Great for finding hidden water holes and that perfect site. I`ve been useing them now for 6 years and have over 100


and the viewer

 

[Shortermemory]

Reibsi, Where would obtain such a device and prints? Looks great. I use a combo of a compass, Gps. Along with large print topos and satellite images to narrow down locations., so i'm familiar with most of the jargon and have used Plats and researched most of the topics on the net. Yet, I have never seen that, just badass, sorry for rambling.Qustions, How does it work. It could work somewhat if the satelleite took pics of the same grid at diff. times/angle and then they laminate it in a contasting spectrum?

 

[all_is_1]

Reibsi you are the shit. Loved your thread on AN's forums. More info please!! Same questions as above. Peace.

 

[Shortermemory]

 

[dopegud]

I don`t know if any of you have ever seen these but they are the bomb when it comes to finding new sites. They cost me about $8.00 a piece and are worth every cent. The steroscopic viewer allows one to pear deep inside the forest. They give you a 3D view of everything....Great for finding hidden water holes and that perfect site. I`ve been useing them now for 6 years and have over 100


and the viewer

Where do you get those? WOW!!!!!!

DG

 

[dan kay]

quakemap is a good program http://www.earthquakemap.com/ its a windows program with a free trial that will download aerial maps and topo maps. has gps integration. you can import/export gps waypoints. either pre scout plots in the software and push gps coords to your reciever to go check or store waypoints in your gps of spots you found and use the program to take a peek of what's around.