SWISSIMAGE Background: The Digital Orthophotomosaic of Switzerland

The Orthophotomosaic SWISSIMAGE (Background) is a composition of digital color aerial images of Switzerland and surroundings. The orthophotos of the neighboring countries come from SPOT 5 satellite images (Airbus Defence and Space) taken in 2004 and 2005 with a ground resolution of 5 m. An orthophoto is an aerial image in which the distortions created by the camera and the relief are corrected.

Alternate title: SWISSIMAGE Background

Date (Creation): 1998-01-01T00:00:00

Citation identifier: ch.swisstopo.swissimage

Citation identifier

No information provided.

Collective title: Orthofotos (Landesvermessung)

Purpose: Referenzdaten

Status: Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Federal Office of Topography swisstopo		geodata@swisstopo.ch	Point of contact
Federal Office of Topography swisstopo		info@swisstopo.ch	Owner

Maintenance and update frequency: userDefined

User defined maintenance frequency: P3Y0M0DT0H0M0S

Resource format

Name	Version
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)

geocat.ch

orthophoto
digital color orthophoto mosaic
Conservation and archiving planning AAP - Confederation
official geodata
FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure

GEMET

aerial photograph

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Orthoimagery

Spatial representation type: Grid

Distance: 0.25 m

Distance: 0.5 m

Distance: 2.5 m

Language: Deutsch

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Imagery base maps earth cover

Extent

Description: swissimage

Geographic identifier: swissimage

Reference system identifier: EPSG:21781

Number of dimensions: 2

Cell geometry: Point

Transformation parameter availability

Checkpoint Availability

Point in Pixel

Center

Distribution format

Name	Version
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK	https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/de/orthobilder-swissimage-10-cm	SWISSIMAGE
OGC:WMS	https://wms.geo.admin.ch/?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.3.0&REQUEST=GetCapabilities&lang=de	ch.swisstopo.swissimage
OGC:WMTS	https://wmts.geo.admin.ch/EPSG/3857/1.0.0/WMTSCapabilities.xml?lang=de	ch.swisstopo.swissimage
MAP:Preview	https://map.geo.admin.ch/?layers=ch.swisstopo.swissimage	Preview map.geo.admin.ch

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
CHTOPO:specialised-geoportal	https://map.geo.admin.ch/?topic=swisstopo&lang=de&bgLayer=voidLayer&X=179943.14&Y=673886.99&zoom=1&catalogNodes=1476,1430&layers=ch.swisstopo.swissimage-product

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Statement: Based on the aerial images

Content Information

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Metadata

File identifier: b52cd8fc-bd4a-4984-b951-0fe9cae2493f XML

Metadata language: Deutsch

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2024-01-16T13:06:13.885Z

Metadata standard name: GM03 2+

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Federal Office of Topography swisstopo		geocat@swisstopo.ch	Point of contact

Dataset URI: https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/de/geodata/images/ortho/swissimage.html

Other language

Language	Character encoding
French	UTF8
Italian	UTF8
English	UTF8
Romansh	UTF8
German	UTF8

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