GIS Resources

Images Data

Alberta Digital air photos:

• Bow River, 2005 flood | flightlines and images
• Bow River, Carseland area, 2013 | flightlines and images
• Calgary area, 1970s oblique images
• Calgary area, 2010 | flightline and images
• Fish Creek, 2013 | flightline and images
• Fort McMurray, 2003 | flightline and images
• Hwy 1 & 1A from Banff park boundary to Horseshoe Falls, 2013 | flightline and images
• Kananaskis, 2008 | flightlines and images
• Kananaskis, 2013 | flightlines and images
• Oldman River Dam, 2013 | flightlines and images
• Southern Alberta, 2009 | flightlines and images

Digital orthophotos:

What is a digital orthophoto?  USGS

Calgary

• Calgary Historic Orthophotos (select years from 1924 to 1997 -- contact SANDS)
• Calgary, 1999
• Calgary and surrounding quarter townships, 2001
• Calgary, 2003
• Calgary, 2005 & 2013 floods (contact SANDS)
• Calgary 2005 - 2021 (contact SANDS)
• Calgary Regional Partnership Calgary incl Chestermere 2017, 1m (at SANDS)
• City of Calgary June 22, 2013 orthophotos, (flooded areas) by section, tiff format, 1m
• City of Calgary: Calgary Map - Now vs. 1924
• City of Calgary Map Gallery Calgary Imagery
  • city wide images, current and historic (from 1924), also oblique option

Alberta

• Canmore 2003, .15m  download
• Orthophotos By Township (download images via app interface)
  • Elbow River 1998, 1m
  • MD Rockyview 1998, 1m
  • MD Foothills 2000, 1m
  • Southern AB 2012
  • Southern AB 2015
• Alberta Geospatial Services Platform 
  • 2013 flood and post flood imagery, 2018/2019 southern Alberta imagery, 2014/2015 miscellaneous Alberta imagery
• Alberta Municipal Data Partnership
  • orthophotos of southern Alberta municipalities, registration required
• ABMI Historical Orthophotos of Alberta 1949-51, 1961-63
• Alberta Historical Air Photo Mosaics from the University of Lethbridge, 700+ digital mosaics from 1949-51 air photos

Canada

• Ortho Images of Canada 1999 - 2003 Landsat7 and RADARSAT-1

Satellite images:

Satellite Data and Imagery from SANDS Maps remote sensing LibGuide