Orthophoto

Orthophotos are digital aerial photographs in which the systematic distortions caused by the central projection, terrain relief and an image acquisition axis that is not always perfectly vertical have been corrected. The national orthophoto coverage is renewed annually.

This dataset always contains the most recent operational orthophoto mosaics for the entire territory of Belgium. When the most recent acquisition campaign does not provide full coverage, the dataset is composed of the last one or two campaigns. In the current version of the dataset, the most recent national orthophoto coverage consists of a combination of the 2023 and 2024 campaigns.

The orthophotos have a spatial resolution of 25 cm in Wallonia and 12.5 cm in Flanders and the Brussels-Capital Region. The source data are supplied by the Belgian administrative Regions. NGI harmonises these regional datasets (geometrically and radiometrically) into a single national mosaic, georeferenced in Lambert 2008 (EPSG:3812) and tiled according to the MapIndex1 grid.

The dataset is INSPIRE-compliant and can be downloaded as compressed JPEG2000 files (JP2) per MapIndex1 tile, with the corresponding world file (.j2w) and metadata describing the extent of the tiles.

Date (Creation): 2020-10-21

Date (Revision): 2025-11-20

Citation identifier: BE.NGI-IGN / 782f1278-37c6-11ec-9241-005056a2d5a8

Status: Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
National Geographic Institute	Anke Bracke	products@ngi.be	Custodian

Maintenance and update frequency: Annually

Data.gov.be themes

Science and technology

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Orthoimagery

Belgian Federal Thesaurus

INSPIRE feature concept dictionary

Orthoimage Coverage

GEMET - Concept themes, version 4.01

Spatial scope

National

Keywords

HVD_cat_orthoimagery

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: No limitations on public access

Use limitation: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Spatial representation type: Grid

Distance: 0.125 m

Language: Deutsch

Language: Nederlands; Vlaams

Language: Français

Character set: 8859 Part 15

Topic category

Imagery base maps earth cover

Description: Belgium

Unique resource identifier: EPSG:3812

Distribution format

Name	Version
jp2

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://ngi.be/aanbod/kaarten-en-fotos/luchtfotos-orthofotos/	https://ngi.be/aanbod/kaarten-en-fotos/luchtfotos-orthofotos/

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
INSPIRE Atom	https://ac.ngi.be/remoteclient-open/GeoBePartners-open/ATOM/e59181f0-8469-44c6-8f6c-a5e1a4af15d5-en.xml	https://ac.ngi.be/remoteclient-open/GeoBePartners-open/ATOM/e59181f0-8469-44c6-8f6c-a5e1a4af15d5-en.xml

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download	https://ac.ngi.be/catalogue/getopenaccess/ngi-standard-open/Rasterdata/Orthos

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download	https://ac.ngi.be/catalogue/getopenaccess/ngi-standard-open/Rasterdata/INSPIRE/Orthophotos_gml_L08.zip

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
OGC:WMS	https://wms.ngi.be/inspire/ortho/service?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS&version=1.3.0	INSPIRE WMS

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Domain consistency

Name of measure: INSPIRE Conformity

Conformance result

Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: The dataset’s compliance with the technical requirements as defined by the Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 has not been checked

Pass: Yes

Statement: The orthophotos are available in geotiff lambert 2008 and are tiled according to the half-sheet map 1:10000. (see tiling description at orthophotos_gml_L08.zip)

Metadata

File identifier: e59181f0-8469-44c6-8f6c-a5e1a4af15d5 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2025-11-20T12:31:48

Metadata standard name: ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version: 1.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
National Geographic Institute	Floor Van Damme	metadata@ngi.be	Point of contact

Other language

Language	Character encoding
French	UTF8
Dutch; Flemish	UTF8
German	UTF8
English	UTF8

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