Vision Statement:

The Vision of the National Digital Orthophoto Programs (NDOP will be to make aerial imagery and digital orthoimagery available to meet National requirements.

Goals:

The NDOP vision will be met through accomplishing the following goals:

• Serving as a focal point to coordinate aerial photography and digital orthoimagery requirements among Federal, State, local, tribal, and private organizations.
• Creating partnerships with Federal, State, and local governments, tribal and private organizations.
• Leveraging consortium resources to satisfy multiple requirements and to minimize redundant data production.
• Assuring availability of, and public access to, digital orthoimagery and associated metadata from distributed databases.
• Investigating, evaluating, promoting ,and implementing new technologies in support of improved imagery accuracy, data development and access, maintenance strategies, and derivative products.
• Supporting coordination and standards goals, and objectives established by Federal, National and International Standards organizations such as the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC), the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NDSI), ANSI, and ISO.

• Orthoimagery coverage for all 50 states, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and other U.S. territories and possessions at 2-meter or finer resolutions.
• Develop and promote a national strategy that acquires or accesses the best value orthoimagery data for Federal agencies while flexible enough to create partnerships with State, local, tribal, and private organizations.
• Create and distribute an annual maintenance plans that graphically depicts on-going and planned activities.
• Implement variable-length maintenance cycles that support Federal requirements, and are coordinated with State orthoimagery maintenance programs.
• Support a variety of imagery types and formats such as natural color, black and white or color-infrared and quarter-quad tiles and county mosaics.
• Support the maintenance and archive of imagery and digital orthoimagery and associated metadata as part of the national database. Maintain all imagery in the public domain.
• Support the integration of orthoimagery data into seamless orthoimagery databases of variable resolution.
• Investigate the accessibility, accuracy, integration, and application of data collection from emerging technologies, including: digital camera imagery, satellite imagery from both commercial and national sources, and elevation collection technologies such as LIDAR, IFSAR and SRTM.
• Coordinate Federal and State agency imagery requirements and agreements through the NDOP Project Coordination Subcommittee. Federal, State liaison staff, and State GIS councils/committees or the equivalent. State GIS councils will be, where appropriate, the coordinating body for state and local requirements.