This data is only available to ministries of the Ontario Public Service (OPS) and their agencies, boards and commissions. By obtaining the imagery data described in this record, you accept the terms outlined in the Memorandum of Restricted Imagery Use.

For more information and to order imagery products please refer to the Imagery Order Form.

Collected in 2008 by First Base Solutions, these orthophotos feature 10cm resolution in Essex County and parts of Halton, Muskoka and Simcoe counties, 15 cm resolution for parts of Mississauga and 20 cm resolution for Durham Region. The Province of Ontario does not distribute this data to the general public.

Time of Capture: 2008 Coverage: 6,529 sq km Canopy Coverage: Leaf-Off

Available Products Orthorectified Tiles – 1km x 1km, 10 to 20cm, 8-bit, RGB in .TIFF format (approx. 72 to 286MB/tile) and a compressed format (approx. 1.6 to 4.5 MB/tile)

Greater Toronto Area (GTA) 2008 - Ortho Index (Shapefile)Imagery Order Form (.docx)Imagery User Guide (.docx)

Status

Completed: Production of the data has been completed

Maintenance and Update Frequency

Not planned: There are no plans to update the data

Contact

Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry - Spatial Data Support Unit, imageryorders@ontario.ca

Use the Geospatial Ontario Imagery Orders App to select and request uncompressed or compressed digital imagery tiles from Geospatial Ontario for transfer directly to you.

This colour aerial photography was flown using a Zeiss Jena LMK15 aerial camera equipped with a 6" (152mm) focal length lens mounted in a Piper Aztec F aircraft. It was captured on September 15, 28, and 29, 1995. The altitude of the aircraft, 15,000 feet above mean ground, provided photography at a nominal scale of 1:30000. Originally captured on film, the imagery was converted digitally and orthorectified. The final product has the same accuracy as a 1:20000 map.

Time of Capture: September 1995 Coverage: 6,289 sq km Canopy Coverage: Leaf-Off

Available Products Orthorectified Tiles - approx. 5km x 2.8km, 100cm resolution, 8-bit, RGB in .TIFF format (40MB/tile) and a compressed format (approx. 1MB/tile)

Greater Toronto Area (GTA) 1995 - Ortho Index (Shapefile)

Additional ResourcesImagery User Guide (.docx) Status

Completed: Production of the data has been completed

Maintenance and Update Frequency

Not planned: There are no plans to update the data

Contact

Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources - Geospatial Services, imagery@ontario.ca

The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) Orthophotography Project 2002 consists of over 26,000 one-square-kilometer tiles of orthorectified colour imagery for the Greater Toronto Area. The imagery features 20 cm pixels for Niagara, Hamilton, Halton, Peel, York, Toronto and Durham, 30 cm pixels for Simcoe, and 50cm pixels for Peterborough and Northumberland. The imagery was flown in the spring of 2002.

The 20km coverage was created by mosaicing together 10km x 10km tiles into 20km x 20km tiles and reducing the resolution to a common pixel size of 5m. The scope of this project did not include adjustment of colours from the original source images.

This data is only available to ministries of the Ontario Public Service (OPS) and their agencies, boards and commissions. By obtaining the imagery data described in this record, you accept the terms outlined in the Memorandum of Restricted Imagery Use.For more information and to order imagery products please refer to the Imagery Order Form.

Collected in April of 2007 by First Base Solutions, these orthophotos feature 15 cm resolution for Hamilton, Halton, Mississauga and Toronto, and 20 cm resolution for Brampton and York Region. The Province of Ontario does not distribute this data to the general public.

Time of Capture: April 2007 Coverage: Approximately 6,557 sq km Canopy Coverage: Leaf-Off

Available Products Orthorectified Tiles – 1km x 1km, 15 to 20cm, 8-bit, RGB in .TIFF format (approx. 72 to 128MB/tile) and a compressed format (approx. 1.6 to 3.2 MB/tile)

Greater Toronto Area (GTA) 2007 - Ortho Index (Shapefile)Imagery Order Form (.docx)Imagery User Guide (.docx)

Status

Completed: Production of the data has been completed

Maintenance and Update Frequency

Not planned: There are no plans to update the data

Contact

Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry - Spatial Data Support Unit, imageryorders@ontario.ca

Data set consists of over 6000 one-square-kilometer tiles of orthorectified colour imagery for the Greater Toronto Area. The imagery features 15 cm pixels for Hamilton, Halton, Mississauga and Toronto, and 20 cm pixels for Brampton and York Region. The imagery was flown in the spring of 2007.

Canada, with 3.33 people per square kilometre, has one of the lowest population densities in the world. In 2001, most of Canada's population of 30,007,094 lived within 200 kilometres of the United States (along Canada's south). In fact, the inhabitants of our three biggest cities -- Toronto, Montréal and Vancouver -- can drive to the border in less than two hours. Thousands of kilometres to the north, our polar region -- the Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut -- is relatively empty, embracing 41% of our land mass but only 0.3% of our population. An inset map shows in greater detail the Windsor-Québec Corridor where a high concentration of Canadians live.

Greater Toronto Area (GTA) Orthophotography 1995 consists of 5km x 2.8 km tiles of orthorectified colour imagery for the Greater Toronto Area, 100cm resolution, covering an area of 6,289 sq. km.

This colour aerial photography was captured on September 15, 28, and 29, 1995, using a Zeiss Jena LMK15 aerial camera equipped with a (152mm) focal length lens mounted in a Piper Aztec F aircraft. The altitude of the aircraft, 15,000 feet above mean ground, provided photography at a nominal scale of 1:30000. Originally captured on film, the imagery was converted digitally and orthorectified. The final product has the same accuracy as a 1:20000 map.

Note:This imagery is spatially defined in NAD 27.

This series was created to provide hard copy maps for the Ontario Base Mapping OBM program covering the Metro Toronto Region. Each map covers an area of 25 sq. km and shows topographic features with 5 metre contours. Buildings less than 100 sq. m. are symbolized, others are shown in outline, roads are pavement edges. 1 km. grid lines are of the Ontario Modified Transverse Mercator Projection. Original city dataset can be found here: http://prod.library.utoronto.ca/maplib/metro/index.html

Available on CD Rom at the Map and Data Library. CD #021.

South Central Ontario Orthophotography Project (SCOOP) imagery was acquired in the spring and fall of 2018/2019 under the best conditions possible to achieve cloud free, snow free, ice free, smoke free, and leaf off captures. Digital imagery was acquired by an Vexcel UltraCam X and Vexcel UtraCamEagle digital cameras and was later orthorectified using an elevation dataset generated through image correlation. Imagery was captured from March 22, 2018 to May 23, 2018, and from May 6, 2019 to May 27, 2019 (GTA area only). The orthophotography has a pixel resolution of 16 centimetres and is accurate to 45 centimetres on the ground at 95%.

The project encompassed an area of approximately 38,920 square kilometers, covering parts of South Central Ontario including Toronto & the GTA, Peterborough, Haliburton, Muskoka, Simcoe and surrounding areas. This aerial project is part of a five-year plan (2018-2022) to acquire 16 cm resolution, leaf-off imagery across the province.

Orthoimagery are available in 1km by 1km coverage tiles

Compressed GeoTIFFs: These images are JPEG-compressed GeoTIFFs, and are suitable for analysis in many cases. Should you require uncompressed TIFF files, these may be requested for download by contacting geoportal@scholarsportal.info, and providing your name and institution (ex. University of Guelph).

Please note: Due to the size of these tiles (~500 MB each), please request a portion of the data only. This can be done by including a polygon file of the study area, a description of a desired feature/area (ex. UTM campus), or a screenshot in your e-mail.