At today's regular quarterly meeting of the New Jersey Geospatial Forum (NJGF) in Trenton, Andy Rowan, Director of the New Jersey Office of GIS (NJOGIS) announced the availability of the new 2007 NJ high resolution orthoimagery. The imagery is available for free download from the New Jersey Geographic Information Network (NJGIN).

From NJGIN:

New Jersey's 2007 orthoimagery in both MrSID format (compressed 8-bit, 3-band, RGB natural color, 5000' by 5000' tiles) and JPEG 2000 format (compressed 8-bit, 4-band RGB plus infrared, 5000' by 5000' tiles) is now available for download from the newly-designed NJ Information Warehouse.

In addition, the NJ Office of GIS has sent county imagery (with 1000' buffers) in MrSID format to each county and requests that municipalities obtain imagery from their respective counties. There is a list of GIS county contacts on NJGIN.

For users requiring statewide coverage, statewide compressed imagery (MrSID and JPEG 2000) is available from the NJ Office of GIS. Requesters will need to send (or drop off with return packaging) an external hard drive (USB or firewire) large enough to hold the data (50 gigabytes for MrSids and 90 gigabytes for JPEGs) and NJ OGIS will copy the imagery and return the drive to the requester. Turn-around time will depend on the number of requests.