• geo.be Metadata Catalog
  •  
  •  
  •  

View service - Orthophotos

This service allows the visualization of a mosaic of orthophotos made for the whole Belgian territory. Access is possible through either a Web Map Service (WMS) or a Web Map Tile Service (WMTS, more powerful).

Orthophotos are digital aerial photographs that have been adjusted for lens distortion, topography and camera tilt. The orthophotographs are metrically more accurate than common aerial photographs. They are very valuable as reference information and also, for instance, for surveying parcels. The orthophotographs mosaic is created based on digital, colour aerial photographs acquired by the Belgian Regions. It is georeferenced in the Lambert2008 coordinates system. This cover is renewed every year. The orthophotographs have a minimal resolution of 25 cm.

Simple

Identification info

Date (Publication)
2017-03-15
Identifier
BE.NGI-IGN / 190fa68f-7c67-4c51-bb7f-96452ef8d2e9
Custodian
  National Geographic Institute - Steven Roovers
Kortenberglaan 115 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
http://www.ngi.be
Data.gov.be themes
  • Science and technology
Belgian Federal Thesaurus
  • Reporting INSPIRE
  • Aerial photographs and orthophotographs
Spatial scope
  • National
Annex D4 of the European Commission Regulation 1205/2008
  • infoMapAccessService
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Orthoimagery
GEMET - Concept themes, version 4.01
  • federal government
  • aerial photograph
Use limitation
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations on public access
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Service Type
view
Description
Belgium
N
S
E
W
thumbnail


Coupled Resource

Operation Name
GetCapabilities
Identifier
e59181f0-8469-44c6-8f6c-a5e1a4af15d5
Coupling Type
Tight

Contains Operations

Operation Name
GetCapabilities
Distributed Computing Platforms
Web services
Connect Point
https://wms.ngi.be/inspire/ortho/service ( OGC:WMS )
Operates On
  • Orthophoto
Reference system identifier
EPSG:3035
Reference system identifier
EPSG:4258
Reference system identifier
EPSG:3857
Reference system identifier
EPSG:4326
Reference system identifier
EPSG:3812
OnLine resource
View service ( OGC:WMS )

View service

OnLine resource
View service ( OGC:WMTS )

View service

Hierarchy level
Service
Other
Webmap Service

Domain consistency

Name of measure
INSPIRE Conformity

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2009-08-19
Explanation
The service described meets the technical requirements as defined by the Commission Regulation (EC) No 976/2009 of 19 October 2009
Pass
Yes
File identifier
29238f19-ac79-4a4a-a797-5490226381ec XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Service
Hierarchy level name
Webmap Service
Date stamp
2025-01-08T13:26:11
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  National Geographic Institute - Floor Van Damme
Kortenberglaan 115 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
http://www.ngi.be
 
 

Overviews

overview

Spatial extent

N
S
E
W
thumbnail


Keywords

Belgian Federal Thesaurus
Aerial photographs and orthophotographs Reporting INSPIRE
Data.gov.be themes
Science and technology
GEMET - Concept themes, version 4.01
aerial photograph federal government
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Orthoimagery
Spatial scope
National

Provided by

logo
Access to the portal
Read here the full details and access to the data.

Associated resources

Not available


  •  
  •  
  •