John Deere now provides aerial images for a variety of agricultural applications, including nitrogen management on various crops.  This presentation will briefly summarize the JD image acquisition technology and recent results from replicated N trials conducted across Iowa.  Although aerial images are closely related to SPADs in these fields, a better relationship occurs between the images and corn grain yields than to SPAD measurements.  As such, new methods are being developed to provide reliable N management decisions from images without accompanying SPAD measurements.  These methods also eliminate the requirement for high N reference strips or at least information about their location within a field.  Also provided is a field ranking tool based upon the severity and extent of apparent N stress, enabling remedial N applications to those fields most likely to benefit.