2005 Annual Report 4d.Progress report. This report serves to document research conducted under a trust agreement between the ARS and the Flint River Water Planning and Policy Center at Albany State University. Additional details of the research can be found in the report for the parent CRIS 6602-13000-019-00D, Remote Sensing and Precision Irrigation to Improve Water, Nutrient, and Pesticide Use Efficiency. The research falls under National Program 201, Water Quality and Management. The far-reaching goal of the parent CRIS is to develop techniques which will lead to more efficient agricultural water use. Under this trust cooperative agreement, the objective is to develop rapid assessment tools for the characterization of land use practices within a watershed via aircraft based visible and near-infrared imagery. Too early to report definite progress.