what is a good sight to go to for sat images of a property????

preferable free site

google earth

Try google planimeter, you can use it to calculate the number of acres using a map, satelite image, or a hybrid of the two.

forgot to add a current map or atleast withen hopefully 6 mo both google earth and planimeter don't go real close in this area and are atleast 3 yrs old

Current satellite images might be hard to find due to security issues.

How close to water are you. Local Army Corps guys might let you hold one. Or a PDF or a Micro Station friendly file.

Oops these would be aerials not sats. Geo-referenced tho.

http://www.nysgis.state.ny.us/index.cfm

Start here.

area pics are fine but i'm a mile off of lake ontario not sure if that is part of reason you cant get too close with some sites

http://www.bing.com/maps/

type your address right next to the 'bing'. You can switch from road to aerial to satellite once the pic comes up.

And if you download their applet, you'll get their 3D cities. They have most of the cities in the US & Canada and some european cities in 3D. You can go 360 around any given building and 'fly' thru the 'canyons' of NYC. It takes a computer w/ decent speed and memory and a fast internet connection.

The cities have been flown (aerial digital camera, hi resolution about 3cm @ 5000 ft) typically within the last year.