Information used to reference the data.
Title: 2009 Capitol Region Council of Governments Orthophotography
Originators: Capitol Region Council of Governments (data publisher)
Connecticut Office of Policy and Management (data publisher)
Publication date: 20100114
Data type: Fgdb raster digital data
A characterization of the data, including its intended use and limitations.
Abstract: 2009 Capitol Region Council of Governments (CRCOG) Orthophotography is very high resolution, color, leaf off, aerial photography that covers the entire Capitol Region and the Town of Plainville, Connecticut. The coverage area includes the following municipalities in Connecticut - Andover, Avon, Bloomfield, Bolton, Canton, East Granby, East Hartford, East Windsor, Ellington, Enfield, Farmington, Glastonbury, Granby, Hartford, Hebron, Manchester, Marlborough, Newington, Plainville, Rocky Hill, Simsbury, Somers, South Windsor, Suffield, Tolland, Vernon, West Hartford, Wethersfield, Windsor, and Windsor Locks. The ground resolution is 3 inches (0.25 ft) per image pixel and the date of the photography is Spring 2009. The orthophotography is intended to support mapping at 1:1,200 scale (1 inch = 100 feet).
Purpose: In 2008, the Capitol Region Council of Governments received approval for a Regional Performance Initiative (RPI) grant from the Connecticut Office of Policy and Management to acquire orthophotography. The RPI grants are designed to take advantage of economies of scale that can be realized by regional cooperation and coordination of projects in Connecticut. The RPI grant funded the aquisition of 2009 orthophotogy for the entire Capitol Region and the Town of Plainville, for a total of 30 municipalities. Several additional municipalities also contracted with the vendor to acquire orthophotography at reduced cost due to the size and coordination of the flight. The project was managed by CRCOG, with generous assistance from municipal GIS professionals in the region. In particular, the task of reviewing the quality of the orthophotography produced by the vendor was completed by CRCOG staff and these municipal GIS professionals.
This particular aerial survey of color, leaf off, 3 inch pixel resolution orthophotography provides the ability to map a comprehensive set of detailed planimetric data that includes roads, sidewalks, streets, highways, and alleys including curb lines, edge of paved surfaces or edge of traveled way, utility poles, street signs, highway lane and traffic safety markings, and general feature details as building footprints, decks, pools, reservoirs, tanks, docks, piers, airports, bridges, overpasses, underpasses, railroads, parking lots, driveways, other impervious surfaces, streams, lakes, drainage courses, holding basins, shorelines, other watercourses, vegetation outlines, fence lines, drainage, and other similar construction or terrain features.
This is ideal for identifying features on the ground surface in developed, open, and even wooded areas because leaves on trees and shrubs that normally obstruct the view from above are largely absent. For example, features such as stone walls, dirt roads, and other structures in wooded areas are usually visible and identifiable. Areas of deciduous verses coniferous trees are apparent.
Dataset credit: WSP SELLS, Inc. was contracted to provide the 2009 Orthophotography.
Language of dataset: en
Contact information for the individual or organization that is knowledgeable about the data.
Organization: Capitol Region Council of Governments
Person: Erik D. Snowden
Phone: 860-522-2217
Fax: 860-724-1274
Email: esnowden@crcog.org
Address type: mailing and physical address
City: Hartford
State or Province: Connecticut
Postal code: 06106-5310
Country: USA
How the data are represented, formatted and maintained by the data producing organization.
File or table name: Ortho_2009_Color_CRCOG
Data type: Fgdb raster digital data
Data format: File Geodatabase Raster Dataset
Native dataset environment: Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.3000
Words or phrases that summarize certain aspects of the data.
Theme:
Keywords: mageryBaseMapsEarthCover, 010, geoscientificInformation, 080, location, 030
Keyword thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category
Theme:
Keywords: digital spatial data, 0.25 feet orthoimage, rectified image, orthophoto, natural color orthophoto, orthoimage, image map, leaf off
Keyword thesaurus: none
Place:
Keywords: USA, United States of America
Keyword thesaurus: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1995, Countries, Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative Divisions (Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 10-4): Washington, D.C., National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Place:
Keywords: CT, Connecticut
Keyword thesaurus: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1987, Codes for the Identification of the States, the District of Columbia and the Outlying Areas of The United States, and Associated Areas (Federal Information Processing Standard 5-2): Washington, DC, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Place:
Keywords: Hartford, Tolland
Keyword thesaurus: Counties and County Equivalents of the States of the United States and the District of Columbia (FIPS Pub 6-3)
Place:
Keywords: Andover, Avon, Bloomfield, Bolton, Canton, East Granby, East Hartford, East Windsor, Ellington, Enfield, Farmington, Glastonbury, Granby, Hartford, Hebron, Manchester, Marlborough, Newington, Plainville, Rocky Hill, Simsbury, Somers, South Windsor, Suffield, Tolland, Vernon, West Hartford, Wethersfield, Windsor, Windsor Locks
Keyword thesaurus: Geographic Names Information System
Place:
Keywords: Capitol Region Council of Governments
Keyword thesaurus: none
Restrictions and legal prerequisites for accessing or using the data after access is granted.
Access constraints: None. The data is in the public domain and may be redistributed. Please include this metadata record in any redistributions.
Use constraints: There is no guarantee of warranty concerning the accuracy of the data. Users should be aware that temporal changes may have occurred since this data set was collected and that some parts of this data may no longer represent actual surface conditions. Users should not use this data for critical applications without a full awareness of its limitations. Acknowledgement of the originating agencies would be appreciated in products derived from these data. Any user who modifies the data is obligated to describe the types of modifications they perform. User specifically agrees not to misrepresent the data, nor to imply that changes made were approved or endorsed by the Captitol Region Council of Governments.