Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Peterborough Ontario,
Canada
Themes or Categories of the Resource: imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
Keywords:
GEOGRAPHIC IMAGERY COLLECTIONS, REMOTE SENSING, RASTER, PHOTOGRAPHY, ORTHOPHOTO, ORTHOIMAGE, ELEVATION, CONTOUR, AERIAL PHOTO, AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY, AIR PHOTO, AERIAL COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY
PHOTOGRAPHY, AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Aerial photography, Photographie aérienne, Remote sensing, Télédétection
Place Keywords:
Continent > North America > Canada > Ontario
Purpose:
The corporation of the County of Simcoe and it's partners will utilize these orthos for land use planning, asset management, natural heritage studies, source water protection projects, surface modeling, watershed mapping, etc. The products from the project will primarily be used to detect changes in land use and identify assets for municipal land management purposes. Ownership of products and value added deliverables may vary by area and be negotiated with the specific partner agency.
Dataset Language:
eng; CAN
Status: onGoing
Update Frequency: asNeeded
Spatial Representation Type: grid
Processing Environment:
The digital orthophoto imagery tiles are provided in GeoTIFF and MrSID formats while the contour data is provided in ESRI Shapefile format. Both GeoTIFF and MrSID images can be accessed through image software that support these formats. Alternatively, Geographic Information Systems can be used to view the imagery and contour data within a spatial context.; ESRI Shapefile; MrSID; Geo TIFF.
Extent
West Longitude: -80.377787
East Longitude: -78.668996
North Latitude: 45.556752
South Latitude: 43.843647
Supplemental Information:
Additional Time Period Information: The aerial imagery, from which the orthophotography and contour data was derived, was collected during April of 2008. Throughout portions of the project coverage area, 10 cm resolution imagery was collected in 2008. This 10 cm imagery is managed directly by the partners involved in this data collection.