New WMS with NAIP imagery

hi, Abe set up a server with Mapserver, and got all the NAIP imagery. We now have a OGC compliant (more or less) WMS server with the 1M data. This can be accessed via Arc plug-in (talk to Abe) and most open source GIS software. I wrote up what I did here:

http://bpederse.googlepages.com/caliwms.

Comments

[Ken-ichi]

All hail Brent, l33test of the Cal map hackers! Seriously, hacking Mapserver? Madness. I probably would have tried writing a script that just knocked all the near-black pixels down to zero, but I'm sure the added processing time would have been significant.

Great write-up, though. I've also experienced some of that white speckling with gdal_merge, but never really knew what do do about it. Actually, my "solution" was to filter out the ones with white speckling and mosaic them manually in IMAGINE.

[Brent]

you can now zoom to an area, and download a geo-referenced
.tif of the viewport here:
http://128.32.54.87/openl.html
(there's something messed up with the tiling, just ignore that)

abe and i tried it and imported into Arc no prob.

(ken-ichi, good idea, though even with IMAGINE, the problem remains with the on-the-fly mosaicing of the .tiffs--or can IMAGINE write MrSID format?)