Color Infrared Aerial Photos

Flathead Basin – South Flathead Lake

Photographs of the Flathead Basin were taken between September 23 and September 25, 2009.

These photos are in MrSID format and Montana State Plane coordinates, datum NAD83, HARN. The horizontal units of the coordinate system are U.S. Survey feet.

The data consists of over 780 individual files that each cover about 700 acres. For this web site, groups of about 6 files were placed in zip archive files. Right-click on a box in the map left below and use your browser's "Save Target As" function to download the photos for that area. The data are also available as large mosaic images.

Shapefile index of downloadable files

These data may be viewed by anyone with our Online Map Viewer or accessed as web services that allow seamless access to the data without the need to download individual tiles. This web site is intended for quick access to data for a small area. If you need this data for a large area sent to you, please contact the State Library.