aerial_photography_SOW.pdf

X’PERT MPD – DY0971 | SOW, January 25, 2022

Statement of Work Aerial Orthophotography

1. Background The Rangeland Brush Estimation Tool (RaBET) is a remote sensing-based tool designed to provide maps of woody canopy cover to aid conservation planning. High resolution aerial orthophotography is needed to develop and validate that woody cover maps.

2. Requirements

2.1 General Requirements

2.1.1 The Contractor, as an independent contractor and not an agent of the United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Southwest Watershed Research Center (ARS SWRC) shall perform the necessary flights and provide the processed imagery orthophotography needed for development and validation.

2.2 Specific requirements

2.2.1 The contractor will provide 4-band (R,G,B,NIR) aerial orthophotography for 14, 3-mile long transects at 10 cm GSD within a pre-monsoon period (May or June) in southeastern Arizona. The deliverables will be an RGBN mosaic (GeoTiff), a shapefile of the image tiles and a PDF of metadata.

Figure 1. General locations for the 14 requested 3-mile transect flight lines.

2.2.2 The contractor will have all knowledge, expertise, tools and other items needed to collect, process, and ship the requested orthophotography.