Southwestern Ontario Orthophotography Project (SWOOP) 2006

Description

Land Information Ontario, as well as most municipalities in southwestern Ontario and a number of other public and private sector organizations collaborated to acquire digital orthophotography for approximately 42,000 square kilometres of land in southwestern Ontario.

These digital orthoimages provide full-colour aerial coverage for most of southwestern Ontario. The library has all the counties covered by SWOOP. These images were flown in April 2006 by First Base Solutions and provided to the Geospatial Centre by Land Information Ontario through the Ontario Geopatial Data Exchange in October 2006. The resolution of these photos is 30 cm. Coverage of the Region of Waterloo consists of over 1500 image tiles. You may wish to consult the following indexes for tile numbers. Mosaics are also available for the east and west portions of the Region of Waterloo.

County of Brant: East Index (PDF) | West Index (PDF)
County of Bruce: Southwest Index (PDF) | Southeast Index (PDF) | North Peninsula Index (PDF) | South Peninsula Index (PDF)
County of Chatham-Kent: West Index (PDF) | East Index (PDF)
County of Dufferin: West Index (PDF)
County of Elgin: West Index (PDF) | East Index (PDF)
County of Essex: West Index (PDF) | East Index (PDF) | Pelee Island Index (PDF)
County of Grey: Northwest Index (PDF) | Northeast Index (PDF) | Southwest Index (PDF) | Southeast Index (PDF)
County of Haldimand: East Index (PDF) | West Index (PDF)
County of Huron: North Index (PDF) | Centre Index (PDF) | South Index (PDF)
County of Lambton: North Index (PDF) | South Index (PDF) | Walpole Island Index (PDF)
County of Middlesex: North Index (PDF) | Southwest Index (PDF) | Southeast Index (PDF) | City of London Index (PDF)
County of Norfolk: North Index (PDF) | South Index (PDF)
Township of North Dumfries Index (PDF)
County of Oxford: North Index (PDF) | South Index (PDF)
County of Perth: North Index (PDF) | South Index (PDF)
Township of Wellesley Index (PDF)
County of Wellington: West Index (PDF) | Centre Index (PDF) | East Index (PDF)
Township of Wilmot Index (PDF)
Township of Woolwich (north) Index (PDF)
Township of Woolwich (south) Index (PDF)
Cambridge Index (PDF)
Kitchener Index (PDF)
Waterloo Index (PDF)
Regional Munincipality of Waterloo (RMOW): Northwest Index (PDF) | Northeast Index (PDF) | Southwest Index (PDF) | Southcentral Index (PDF) | Southeast Index (PDF)

SWOOP 2016

Spatial reference and data type

These georeferenced images are available in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinates; horizontal datum is North American Datum (NAD) 83. They are stored as GeoTIFF image files. Average file size for a TIFF image is 32 MB.

Data access

In order to access these data sets, please visit the Geospatial Centre reference desk during reference hours. Library reference staff are available to provide further information about these data sets and to deliver data upon request. Under the terms of the library's license agreement, these data sets are for use by students, faculty, and staff at the University of Waterloo only.

Data manipulation and storage

There are public workstations in the Geospatial Centre that provide access to ArcGIS software programs, program extensions and data manipulation utilities. Patrons may use the Geographic Information System (GIS) and image processing software in the library to view and manipulate the data. Waterloo faculty, students and staff may copy these data for use elsewhere.

Data output

These images may be exported from ArcGIS in a choice of bitmapped formats (also known as raster graphics) including JPG, TIFF, GIF, and BMP or in a choice of vector graphics formats including Adobe Illustrator (AI), Encapsulated Postscript (EPS), and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). Yet another option is PDF. The GeoExpressView may also be used to export the image, in whole or in part. The user defines the output resolution.

Use restrictions/licensing/copyright

These data are provided for personal use for academic, research, and/or teaching purposes. A data release agreement must be agreed to before these licensed data can be released. First Base Solutions must be acknowledged on any derivative product, whether printed or electronic, including for example, a printed map, a raster or vector graphic, a web-based application, etc. Patrons are advised to fully respect the provisions of Canada's Copyright Act as well as terms and conditions imposed by the data provider.