Question: Custom NAIP Datasets

[zglezgle]

1. How to convert a NAIP image to tiles? I'd like to prepare another NAIP image similar to your demo: data\basemaps\m_3807537_ne_18_1_20170611_tiles*
2. Is it possible to use some online NAIP Imagery service, e.g. https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=2984dd4517c14e00b9d810bd35b5cc5b ? If yes, we can save the effort to prepare the NAIP tiles.

Thank you so much!

[calebrob6]

Hi zglezgle,

1. I used gdal2tiles.py to create the basemaps. See https://github.com/microsoft/ai4eutils/blob/master/geospatial/recipes_and_guides/geospatial_recipes.md#convert-a-raster-into-an-xyz-basemap for an example call.
2. It is definitely possible to use external basemaps in the tool - generally you can use any tile layer that Leaflet can display. The reason I don't is because, generally, you will want the RGB imagery that you are looking at in the tool to match up with the data that the model is being run on (i.e. a local geotiff). For example, the ESRI NAIP layer contains the most recent imagery for all states, however if you were running a model on older NAIP tiles, then these wouldn't match up.

[calebrob6]

3. You can also look at a script we just added for generating NAIP basemaps - https://github.com/microsoft/landcover/blob/master/utils/create_naip_basemap.py.

[zglezgle]

thanks!