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Orthophotos of the July 2021 floods (Vesdre, Meuse, Demer) (WMS)
This service allows the visualization of the orthophoto mosaics that were created following the floods of July 2021 in the valleys of the Vesdre, the Meuse and the Demer. The data is accessible via a Web Map Service (WMS).
Orthophotos are aerial photographs that have been geometrically corrected (orthorectified) to eliminate distortions caused by terrain relief, lens distortion, and camera tilt. Unlike raw aerial imagery, orthophotos have a uniform scale and accurate geometry, making them suitable for cartography, measurements, and visual analysis.
This specific service includes orthophotos based on aerial photographs acquired in July 2021 by Hansa Luftbild, commissioned by the National Geographic Institute (NGI), following the floods in the zones of the Vesdre, a part of the Meuse downstream of Liège and the Demer. The resulting orthophoto mosaics are georeferenced in the Lambert 2008 coordinate system.
All orthophotos are in colour (RGB). The ground resolution (GSD) of the original data is 6.5 cm (4 cm above the Hoëgne). Through this service, the images can be viewed at a maximum resolution of 25 cm. The spatial coverage of this service is limited to the affected zones.
Simple
- Date (Creation)
- 2021-10-29
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-10-29
- Citation identifier
- BE.NGI-IGN / b8c47880-51ef-11ec-accc-7478273ff935
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role National Geographic Institute
Anke Bracke
Custodian
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- Keywords
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floods
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- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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•The custodian of the resource holds the rights of property (including the rights of intellectual property) to the geographic files
•The custodian grants the user the right to use the data for his internal use.
•Commercial use of the data under any form is strictly forbidden
•Custodian’s name must be mentioned each time the data are being used publically.
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations on public access
- Use limitation
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•The custodian of the resource holds the rights of property (including the rights of intellectual property) to the geographic files
•The custodian grants the user the right to use the data for his internal use.
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- Service Type
- view
- Description
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Belgium
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- Coupling Type
- Tight
- Contains Operations
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Operation Name Distributed Computing Platforms Connect Point http://ign-sd-wms-1.int.ngi.be/mapproxy/flood_ortho/service?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetCapabilities
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name OGC:WMS
https://wms.ngi.be/inspire/flood_ortho/service?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetCapabilities
- Hierarchy level
- Service
- Other
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service
Domain consistency
- Name of measure
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INSPIRE Conformity
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2009-08-19
- Explanation
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The service described does not meet the technical requirements as defined by the Commission Regulation (EC) No 976/2009 of 19 October 2009.
- Pass
- No
Metadata
- File identifier
- b8c47880-51ef-11ec-accc-7478273ff935 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Service
- Hierarchy level name
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Webmap Service
- Date stamp
- 2026-07-08T11:13:07
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role National Geographic Institute
Floor Van Damme
Point of contact
- Other language
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Language Character encoding French Dutch; Flemish German English UTF8
