This is a composite of North Dakota as photographed from space between July 1999 and September 2002. It is enormous — 577MB file size, roughly 16,000 pixels wide by 14,000 tall. You’d better have broadband if you want a copy of this file.

This isn’t as high of resolution as imagery on Google Earth or places like that, in that you can’t zoom into cities or that sort of thing. But it’s a carefully prepared image of North Dakota from space, with lots of color and shadow correction.

You can find this and other neat files at The North Dakota GIS image download page.

Many of these files are in MrSID format, highly compressed yet accurate image files. You can download a free viewer plugin from LizardTech by clicking here.