Statewide Orthoimagery Project Goals: to acquire statewide orthoimagery for the following purposes: 1.Support the 911 Coordinating Council’s GIS Gap Analysis & Data Remediation project. 2.Provide a reference layer for call taking and dispatch positions. 3.Provide a statewide, current, & consistent base map that can base leveraged by other state and local government GIS programs. 4.Economy of scale by conducting one statewide project.

Statewide Orthoimagery Project Product : Statewide 1-foot pixel resolution Leaf-off Natural color Acquired Fall 2013/Winter 2014  Note: some Region 6 reflights are necessary due to vegetation conditions 6-inch pixel1-foot pixel 1-meter pixel (leaf-on)

Statewide Orthoimagery Project Deliverables : Web Service – Open Geospatial Consortium’s Web Map Service format, provides streaming of data into various desktop and web-based clients without storing a local copy of the data. Supports desktop software clients such as ArcGIS, AutoCAD, and MapInfo. File-based formats: GeoTIFF – raw version of the data, slightly compressed, tiled by quarter, quarter, quarter quadrangle MrSID – highly compressed version of the data, tiled by USGS 7.5 minute quadrangle

Statewide Orthoimagery Project Licensed product - allows access to the following: All state government agencies and regents-level institutions All county-level governments All municipal (city) governments All PSAP’s All Public School Districts Any firm doing work on behalf of one of these entities Additionally, license agreement allows: -Authorized users to develop and publish publically-available web applications which utilize orthoimagery or web map services, provided the raw imagery is not made available for download; -Authorized users to print and distribute hardcopy format maps that display the orthoimagery or web map service. No public domain distribution

Statewide Orthoimagery Project Access instructions: The Kansas Data Access & Support Center (DASC) is facilitating access to the statewide imagery collection Use the Imagery Request Form to submit your request for data -

Statewide Orthoimagery Project Timeline: Web Service – available now GeoTIFF: Regions 1 & 2 delivered to DASC this week Regions 3 & 4 - end of November Region 5 - end of calendar year Region 6 – February, 2015 MrSID: Regions 1-4 by end of calendar year Region 5 by end of January, 2015 Region 6 – March, 2015 GeoTIFF & MrSID requests – s will be sent with external HD size requirements to complete each order.