Statewide Orthoimagery Project

Goals: to acquire statewide orthoimagery for the following purposes:

1. Support the 911 Coordinating Council’s GIS Gap Analysis & Data Remediation project.

2. Provide a reference layer for call taking and dispatch positions.

3. Provide a statewide, current, & consistent base map that can base leveraged by other state and local government GIS programs.

4. Economy of scale by conducting one statewide project.

Statewide Orthoimagery Project

Product:• Statewide• 1-foot pixel resolution• Leaf-off• Natural color• Acquired Fall 2013/Winter 2014

Note: some Region 6 reflights are necessary due to vegetation conditions

6-inch pixel 1-foot pixel 1-meter pixel (leaf-on)

Statewide Orthoimagery Project

Deliverables:

• Web Service – Open Geospatial Consortium’s Web Map Service format, provides streaming of data into various desktop and web-based clients without storing a local copy of the data. Supports desktop software clients such as ArcGIS, AutoCAD, and MapInfo.

• File-based formats:

• GeoTIFF – raw version of the data, slightly compressed, tiled by quarter, quarter, quarter quadrangle

• MrSID – highly compressed version of the data, tiled by USGS 7.5 minute quadrangle

Statewide Orthoimagery Project

Licensed product - allows access to the following:• All state government agencies and regents-level institutions• All county-level governments• All municipal (city) governments• All PSAP’s• All Public School Districts• Any firm doing work on behalf of one of these entities• Additionally, license agreement allows:

- Authorized users to develop and publish publically-available web applications which utilize orthoimagery or web map services, provided the raw imagery is not made available for download;

- Authorized users to print and distribute hardcopy format maps that display the orthoimagery or web map service.

• No public domain distribution

Statewide Orthoimagery ProjectAccess instructions:

• The Kansas Data Access & Support Center (DASC) is facilitating access to the statewide imagery collection

• Use the Imagery Request Form to submit your request for data - http://www.kansasgis.org/initiatives/NG911/imagery.cfm

Statewide Orthoimagery Project

Timeline:• Web Service – available now

• GeoTIFF:• Regions 1 & 2 delivered to DASC this week• Regions 3 & 4 - end of November• Region 5 - end of calendar year• Region 6 – February, 2015

• MrSID:• Regions 1-4 by end of calendar year• Region 5 by end of January, 2015• Region 6 – March, 2015

• GeoTIFF & MrSID requests – emails will be sent with external HD size requirements to complete each order.