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Maps • Geospatial Centre

Southwestern Ontario Orthoimagery Project 2006 (SWOOP)

Description:

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. 

These digital orthoimages provide full-colour aerial coverage for most of southwestern Ontario.  The Library has all the counties covered by SWOOP. These images were flown in April 2006 by FIRSTBASESOLUTIONS and provided to the Geospatial Centre by Land Information Ontario through the Ontario Geopatial Data Exchange in October 2006.  The resolution of these photos is 30 cm.  Coverage of the Region of Waterloo consists of over 1500 image tiles. You may wish to consult the following indexes for tile numbers.  Mosaics are also available for the east and west portions of the Region of Waterloo.

Spatial Reference and Data Type:

These georeferenced images are available in UTM coordinates; horizontal datum is NAD83.  They are stored as GeoTIFF image files.  Average file size for a Tiff image is 32 MB. 

Data Access:

In order to access these data sets, please visit the Geospatial Centre Reference Desk during reference hours. Library reference staff are available to provide further information about these data sets and to deliver data upon request. Under the terms of the Library's license agreement, these data sets are for use by students, faculty, and staff at the University of Waterloo only.

Data Manipulation and Storage:

There are public workstations in the Geospatial Centre that provide access to ArcGIS software programs, program extensions and data manipulation utilities. Patrons may use the GIS and image processing software in the library to view and manipulate the data. UW faculty, students and staff may copy these data for use elsewhere.

Data Output:

These images may be exported from ArcGIS in a choice of bitmapped formats (also known as raster graphics) including JPG, TIFF, GIF, and BMP or in a choice of vector graphics formats including AI, EPS, and SVG. Yet another option is PDF.  The GeoExpressView may also be used to export the image, in whole or in part. The user defines the output resolution.

Use Restrictions/Licensing/Copyright:

These data are provided for personal use for academic, research, and/or teaching purposes. Library staff will ask patrons to read and sign a data release agreement before these licensed data can be released. FIRSTBASESOLUTIONS must be acknowledged on any derivative product, whether printed or electronic, including for example, a printed map, a raster or vector graphic, a web-based application, etc. Patrons are advised to fully respect the provisions of Canada's Copyright Act as well as terms and conditions imposed by the data provider.

Citation:

SWOOP : Orthoimagery 2006 [computer file]. FIRSTBASESOLUTIONS, [2006].

Sample View of the Data: 

Swoop 2006 image : Waterloo Landfill Site

data courtesty of FIRSTBASESOLUTIONS

Click Image to zoom in.

 

, Library Assistant

January 31, 2013

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