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Air Photo Hard Copy

Black and white aerial photography is available for all of British Columbia at a variety of scales and, in some areas, dating back more than fifty years. Colour aerial photography is becoming increasingly available, particularly in the Okanagan, Kootenay and Cariboo areas.  Read more >>

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Aerial Triangulation (AT) Scans

Aerial Triangulation (AT) Scans are soft-copy (digital images) of black & white and colour aerial photography in BC that include aerotriangulation data.   Read more >>

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Gridded DEMs

This product is a regularly gridded Digital Elevation Model data set for the Province of British Columbia, derived from breaklines, areas and mass points. The grid spacing is 25 metres and is created from the 1:20,000 scale Terrain Resource Information Management (TRIM) Digital Elevation Model (DEM).  Read more >>

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Hillshade

Hillshade - TRIM products are a derivation of the BC gridded Digital Elevation Model (BC DEM) consisting of eight distinct raster products, presented in two different common planar projections, in file formats appropriate to the file content. The elevation grid is derived from a Triangulated Irregular Network (TIN) built from Terrain Resource Information Management (TRIM) mass-points, breaklines, slope, and aspect. The BC DEM files use the National Topographic System (NTS) at 1:250 000 scale (250K blocks) as a delivery basis and have a grid spacing of 25 metres.  Read more >>

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Orthophotos

An orthophoto is a geometrically corrected aerial photograph that displays ground features to be displayed in their true ground position with a constant scale throughout the image. Read more >>

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Orthophoto Mosaics

Orthophoto mosaics are orthophotos that have been merged or tiled together, then clipped to the BCGS 1:20 000 map grid.  Read more >>

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Satellite Imagery

Satellite imagery are photographs of Earth or other planets made from artificial satellites. Satellites orbiting Earth have an orbit, elevation and time intervals to cover the globe and image the same area. Examples of these satellites are Landsat, SPOT, IKONOS, Quick Bird and IRS. Active satellites record reflected radiations which the sensors will send to earth surface. These are Radar Satellites such as Canadian RADARSAT 1 and 2.   Read more >>

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Program Areas

Air Photo and Lab Services is responsible for coordinating the delivery of the Provincial Air Photo Acquisition Program, producing digital and hard copy products and maintaining the Air Photo Warehouse.

The Provincial Baseline Atlas supports and distributes orthophotos, orthophoto mosaics, AT scans, hillshades and gridded DEMs.

Copyright

All Crown Registry and Geographic Base information products are protected by Province of British Columbia Crown Copyright.   Read more >>