This service allows consultation of the spatial metadata of the complete collection of aerial photos of the National Geographic Institute (NGI), from 1946 to today. The data is accessible via a Web Feature Service (WFS). The aerial photos themselves are not part of the service. The collection comprises more than 100,000 aerial photos. The images are predominantly panchromatic (black and white). From the late 1970s onwards, colour images were also taken, and from the end of 2004 onwards all images were taken in colour. The analogue aerial photos in the collection were scanned in high resolution. More recent aerial photos were captured directly in digital format. This specific service includes three layers: the centroids (centre points) of the individual aerial photos, the footprints (the outlines of the area on the ground covered by each photo), and the flight paths of the aircraft used during image acquisition. For each aerial photo, all known metadata is included in the attribute table, such as the acquisition date, the flight and the strip, the dimensions, the scale, the ground resolution, the radiometry (black and white or colour), the coordinates of the centre point, and the camera, lens and film used. This data makes it possible to find out which aerial photos are available for a given location and period, and what the characteristics of each photo are. The aerial photos can be ordered in high resolution via https://shop.ngi.be/nl/luchtfotos/.

Geodetic markers of which the 3D coordinates are precisely known in common Belgian reference systems.

This service allows the visualization of the national orthophoto mosaics covering the entire territory of Belgium. 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 from 2016 up to and including 2023, derived from aerial surveys carried out by the Belgian administrative Regions. A separate layer is published for each available year, with 2023 being the most recent orthophoto coverage in this service. The national orthophoto coverage is renewed annually. The orthophoto datasets of the Regions are integrated by the National Geographic Institute (NGI) into a single national coverage. Where possible, radiometric corrections are applied to ensure smooth transitions between the data of the Regions. The resulting orthophoto mosaics are georeferenced in the Lambert 2008 coordinate system. All orthophotos are in colour (RGB). For the 2016–2021 campaigns, the ground resolution (GSD) is 25 cm throughout Belgium. From the 2022 campaign onwards, the GSD is 25 cm in Wallonia and 15 cm in Flanders and the Brussels-Capital Region. The spatial coverage of this service is the entire Belgian territory. For downloading the most recent orthophoto mosaics, reference is made to the associated dataset "Orthofoto INSPIRE".

‘Top10Vector – Land cover and Vegetation’ is the vector dataset of the land use categories of undeveloped land areas in Belgium. This dataset comprises 3 feature types, namely isolated [LC_isolatedvegetation] and linear [LC_linearvegetation] vegetation and land cover zones [LC_landcoverzone]. This dataset can be downloaded via the links in ‘Access’ at the bottom of this page.

This web service allows viewing datasets from INSPIRE Contour Lines, and DTM.

Network of marks whose planimetric coordinates are known with precision according to the reference systems which are used in Belgium.