Image Data
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City and Regional Level
- Airphotos Historical Project
- 1500 historical air photos for the years 1930 and 1945-47 of Kitchener-Waterloo and surrounding areas were scanned and saved electronically
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Regional Municipality of Waterloo
- Orthomosaics of the cities of Waterloo, Kitchener, Cambridge and surrounding communities from 2000, 2003, 2006, 2009 and 2012
- Ontario Cities and Regions
- Orthomosaics and orthophotos ranging in dates from 1999 - 2011 covering the Capital Region, Lambton county, cities of Guelph, Brampton, London and Hamilton
- Toronto and GTA
- Orthoimagery from GTA, including Toronto ranging from dates 1995-2011
- City of Whitehorse
- 2006 Orthomosaic of the city of Whitehorse, Yukon at 25 cm resolution.
- Niagara Orthomosaic
- 2006 Orhomosaic of the Niagara Region. covering each of the twelve muncipalities, at 1 metre resolution.
- 2008 Simcoe/ Muskoka/ Dufferin
- This data set consists of large-tile ortho mosaics for Muskoka District, Simcoe County, and east half of Dufferin County.
- City of Vancouver
- 2008 Orthoimagery of the City of Vancouver, at 10 cm resolution
- City of Hamilton
- 2007 Orthomosaic of the City of Hamilton, at 1 metre resolution
- Regional Municipality of Waterloo
- SPOT Satellite Imagery of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo 1999
Provincial Level
- CIR CIR (Colour Infrared) Imagery from Ontario
- This collection of approximately 64,000 Colour Infrared (CIR) aerial photos were collected by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources between 1994-2003 and covers most areas of Southern Ontario. Images are in Jpg2000 format, non-georeferenced and taken at approximately 1:10,000 scale.
Scholars GeoPortal
- Scholars GeoPortal provides several imagery datasets for Ontario including, Water Protection QuickBird Imagery Project (2007), Digital Raster Acquisition Project Eastern Ontario (DRAPE) (2008-2009), Greater Toronto Area (GTA)(2007), Southwestern Ontario Orthophotography Project (2006), Southwestern Ontario Orthophotography Project (2010) and City of Ottawa Aerial Ortho-photography Municipal Inventory Mapping (2005)
- DRAPE Orthoimagery (2008-2009)
- DRAPE (Digital Rastor Acquisition Project for the East) imagery, covers approximately 54,000 square kilometres in eastern Ontario and was taken between January 2008 - January 2009.
- Data collection came from multiple remote sensing data products at 30cm and 10cm resolution. The Province of Ontario managed the imagery and made available a resampled 20cm version of this data.
- GRCA (Grand River Conservation Authority)
- 2000 and 2006 orthoimagery covering the Grand River Watershed, available at Geospatial Centre and on-line
- SWOOP Orthoimagery (2006)
- Land Information Ontario, as well as most municipalities in southwestern Ontario and a number of other public and private sector organizations collaborated to acquire digital orthophotography for approximately 42,000 square kilometres of land in southwestern Ontario.
- SWOOP Orthimagery (2010)
- Land Information Ontario , as well as most municipalities in Southwestern Ontario and a number of other public and private sector organizations collaborated to acquire digital orthophotography for approximately 45,572 square kilometres of land in Southwestern Ontario.
- QuickBird Satellite Imagery
- The QuickBird Satellite images cover parts of Ontario and have 60 cm resolution.
- Government of BC
- Digital regional compilations of the geology of B.C. at 1:250,000-scale were made by the BC Geological Survey in 1992-96 in support of the Mineral Potential Project. These were released as Open Files (see References) and digital downloads from the BC Geological Survey website (http://www.em.gov.bc.ca/geology).
- Government of Yukon
- Geomatics Yukon has produced a series of Landsat mosaics and scene products for public distribution.
- Government of Northwest Territories
- Centre for Geomatics. Landsat 7 ETM. Imagery dates between 2003-2005 and is in TIF format.
National Level
World Level
- Google Earth
- Geographynetwork.com
- Downloadable, ortho-rectified, seamless 10 metre dataset of orthophotos, made from rectified grayscale aerial images.
- Nasa World Wind
- World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in 3D
- WA 2000 Landsat TM
- Multispectral (30m), Thermal (60m), Panchromatic (15m)
- Global Landsat Geocover 1990
- This near-worldwide set of 609 satellite imagery mosaics, marketed as 1990 GeoCover by Land Info Worldwide Mapping, is from Landsat 4/5 TM and includes three 30m multi-spectral bands 7-4-2. The Landsat images have been ortho-rectified, tonally balanced, mosaicked, tiled and wavelett compressed.
- Global Landsat Geocover 2000
- This worldwide set of 770 satellite imagery mosaics, marketed as 2000 GeoCover by Land Info Worldwide Mapping, is from Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper (ETM+); the 15m band was pan-sharpened with 30m multi-spectral bands 7-4-2. The Landsat images have been ortho-rectified, tonally balanced, mosaicked, tiled and wavelett compressed.
- Washington State Geospatial Data Archive
- The WAGDA website hosts some digital aerial photography and links to others.
- USGS Global Visualization Viewer (GLOVIS)
- View/ Purchase ASTER, EO-1, Landsat 35 year Archive, MODIS, & TerraLook (free download from Landsat Archive complete by 2/09)
- USGS Seamless Server
- Acres Landsat 7 Mosaic of Australia
- Ortho-rectified Mosaics with 25 pixel resolution are comprised from 369 satellite scenes taken between July 1999 and September 2000. Both distinct mosaics were produced by using different spectral bands.
, Library Assistant
March 14, 2013
