Historical orthophotos 2010s (WMS)

This service allows the visualization of historical orthophoto mosaics based on available aerial photographs covering parts of the Belgian territory. 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 historical orthophotos from 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015, derived from aerial surveys carried out by the National Geographic Institute (NGI) and the Regions. During this period, both analogue and digital aerial photographs are available. The analogue images were scanned at high resolution and, like the digital ones, orthorectified. The resulting orthophotos were assembled into mosaics and georeferenced in the Lambert 2008 coordinate system.

All orthophotos are in colour (RGB). The ground resolution (GSD) varies between 10 cm and 50 cm, depending on the sensor used and the surveyed area. The spatial coverage of this service is limited to the areas for which aerial photographs were available during the mentioned period.

The service has been cached using the WebMercator TileMatrixSet, with a maximum scale denominator of 4,265.459167699568 metres (scale level 17).

Date (Creation): 2009-12-31

Date (Publication): 2026-02-20

Citation identifier: BE.NGI-IGN / 80a64edd-841f-11f0-8409-00be433d8c24

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
National Geographic Institute	Anke Bracke	products@ngi.be	Custodian

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

Annex D4 of the European Commission Regulation 1205/2008

infoMapAccessService

Belgian Federal Thesaurus

Data.gov.be themes

Environment

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Orthoimagery

GEMET - Concept themes, version 4.01

Spatial scope

National

Keywords

historical orthophotos, aerial photographs, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, RGB, 10 cm resolution, 25 cm resolution, 50 cm resolution

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: •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: •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.

Service Type: view

Description: Belgium

Coupled Resource

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Coupling Type: Tight

Contains Operations

Operation Name	Distributed Computing Platforms	Connect Point
GetCapabilities		https://wms.ngi.be/orthophotos_2010s/service?service=wms&version=1.3.0&service=wms

Operates On

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
OGC:WMS	https://wms.ngi.be/orthophotos_2010s/service?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=getcapabilities
OGC:WMTS	https://wmts.ngi.be/orthophotos_2010s/1.0.0/WMTSCapabilities.xml

Hierarchy level: Service

Other: service

Domain consistency

Name of measure: INSPIRE Conformity

Conformance result

Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 976/2009 of 19 October 2009 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the Network Services

Date (Publication): 2009-08-19

Explanation: 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: 80a64edd-841f-11f0-8409-00be433d8c24 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Service

Hierarchy level name: Webmap Service

Date stamp: 2026-06-10T13:19:41

Metadata standard name: ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version: 1.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
National Geographic Institute	Floor Van Damme	metadata@ngi.be	Point of contact

Other language

Language	Character encoding
French
Dutch; Flemish
German
English	UTF8

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