Airphotos/Orthophotos

Airphoto and orthophoto images are used for urban planning, road and utility route selection, exploration and mine development, agriculture, environmental assessment and emergency planning. Applications include:

  • Land use classification and analysis
  • Population and housing demographics
  • Databases for environmental impact assessments
  • Detailed terrain analysis
  • Determining optimal routes for utility site access
  • Assist in vegetation/crop management and soil analysis
  • Determine flood damage
  • Prepare emergency/disaster plans and maps
  • Detect water pollution
  • Determine temporal changes using old and new photography
Visit our MapServer to view the complete coverage and to order


McElhanney Orthophotos

Vancouver SampleAvailable in the following formats:
  • Colour contact prints
  • Orthophotos
  • Photographic enlargements
  • Digital files - Standard uncompressed (GeoTIFF) or Compressed (ECW or MrSID)

All products are also available at downsampled lower resolutions as well.
Please visit our MapsByAir Mapserver to browse imagery and for further details and pricing.


RESOLUTION, YEAR FLOWN: 2003
AREA FLOWN
10cm
pixels
15cm
pixels
20cm
pixels
25cm
pixels
50cm
pixels
1m
pixels
Please see our Mapserver above for availability
RESOLUTION, YEAR FLOWN: 2004
AREA FLOWN
10cm
pixels
15cm
pixels
20cm
pixels
25cm
pixels
50cm
pixels
1m
pixels
West Vancouver
Surrey
Delta
Langley City
Langley Township
(Walnut Grove, Willoughby)
Saanich - UVic
Victoria
Esquimalt
Oak Bay
View Royal
Squamish
Penticton
Castlegar
Maple Ridge
Pitt Meadows
Kamloops
Kelowna
RESOLUTION, YEAR FLOWN: 2003
AREA FLOWN
10cm
pixels
15cm
pixels
20cm
pixels
25cm
pixels
50cm
pixels
1m
pixels
North Vancouver
New Westminster
Abbotsford
Chilliwack
Coquitlam
North Saanich
(including Sidney and Airport)
Nanaimo
Port Coquitlam
Whistler
(12.5cm)
Parksville/Oceanside
RESOLUTION, YEAR FLOWN: 2002
AREA FLOWN
10cm
pixels
15cm
pixels
20cm
pixels
25cm
pixels
50cm
pixels
1m
pixels
Vancouver
UBC
Burnaby
Port Moody
Gulf Islands
(Bowen to Denman)
RESOLUTION, YEAR FLOWN: 2001
AREA FLOWN
10cm
pixels
15cm
pixels
20cm
pixels
25cm
pixels
50cm
pixels
1m
pixels
Surrey
Delta
Richmond
(including Airport)
Langley Township
Western Communities
(Colwood, Highlands, Langford, Metchosin)
Parksville/Oceanside
RESOLUTION, YEAR FLOWN: 2000
AREA FLOWN
10cm
pixels
15cm
pixels
20cm
pixels
25cm
pixels
50cm
pixels
1m
pixels
West Vancouver
Gulf Islands
(Gabriola to Saturna)
RESOLUTION, YEAR FLOWN: 1999
AREA FLOWN
10cm
pixels
15cm
pixels
20cm
pixels
25cm
pixels
50cm
pixels
1m
pixels
Vancouver
North Vancouver
UBC
Burnaby
Surrey
Delta
Richmond
(including Airport)
Langley Township
New Westminster
Port Moody
Bowen Island to Abbotsford
Chilliwack
Sunshine Coast
Squamish to Pemberton
Coquitlam
Port Coquitlam
RESOLUTION, YEAR FLOWN: 1995
AREA FLOWN
10cm
pixels
15cm
pixels
20cm
pixels
25cm
pixels
50cm
pixels
1m
pixels
Vancouver
North Vancouver
UBC
Burnaby
Surrey
Delta
Richmond
(including Airport)
Langley Township
New Westminster
Port Moody
Bowen Island to Abbotsford
Sunshine Coast
Squamish to Pemberton
Western Communities
(Colwood, Highlands, Langford, Metchosin)
Coquitlam
Port Coquitlam
      * prices subject to change without notice

BC Government Orthophotos

Sample BC orthophoto
McElhanney was selected by the Government of British Columbia to market, sell and distribute BC Government orthophotos. Orthophotos are created from aerial photography by scanning, geo-referencing and resampling the data.
 
Vintage: 1995 - Present
Resolution: 1 meter pixels
Image type: Aerial, greyscale
Formats:
   Digital Data  $200.00/mapsheet
   Photo Quality Plots  $90.00/mapsheet
   Mylar Plots  $135.00/mapsheet

Notice:

The BC Government has opted to provide distribution of TRIM Orthophotos themselves as of April 1st, 2005.

Therefore as of April 29th, McElhanney Consulting Services will no longer be the main distributor.

To fulfill orders please follow the link below to the Base Mapping and Geomatic Services webpage:

http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/bmgs/catalog/orthophoto/index.html

All orders made through Landdata BC require prepayment via a BC Online account before receiving your data. If you have any problems we still have access to the data to assist you. McElhanney currently has an account and can place an order on your behalf. We can also continue to provide conversion, scanning and plotting services.

If service is not being provided by the Government to the standards which you are accustomed please contact  to assist you through this transitional period.



  Tarin Digital Orthophotos

  • Coverage over NE British Columbia and many parts of Alberta

  • Colour and black & white (B/W) orthos available at 0.5m, 1m and 2m resolutions

  • Valuable to oil & gas companies


  • ORTHOPHOTO IMAGERY (DIGITAL MOSAICS)
    Type Price per Tile
    Alberta B/W (< 2 years old) $515
    Alberta B/W (> 2 years old)$430
    Alberta Colour (< 2 years old)$715
    Alberta Colour (> 2 years old)$575
    British Columbia B/W (< 2 years old)$740
    British Columbia B/W (> 2 years old)$630

    $40/CD or $60/DVD for delivery format
    Plus $15 shipping and applicable taxes

  • Tiles are structured by ATS township in Alberta and by TRIM sheets in British Columbia.

Additional Services

  • MrSID & ECW data compression services
  • Conversion to COT, MapInfo, ArcView, GeoTIFF formats
  • Mosaicking
  • Digital data reformatting, tiling, and generalizing
  • Hard copies produced at other scales, e.g. 1:10 000 scale
  • Hard copies and digital data with line mapping data included in the image, e.g. drainage
  • Vector data overlays
  • Photo quality plotting
  • Fly-throughs (mpeg movies)
Primary contacts:

Vancouver Office
Tel  (604) 683-8521
Fax  (604) 683-4350

Vancouver Office
Tel  (604) 683-8521
Fax  (604) 683-4350

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