Digital Orthophotos
Watershed Sciences offers digital, high-resolution true-color ortho-photography services for any study area. The digital imagery can be co-acquired with LiDAR or flown as a stand-alone sensor. Our medium format, 39 mega-pixel digital camera is integrated with our airborne LiDAR sensor enabling direct geo-referencing and tiling of the imagery with very high resolution and spatial accuracy.
Ortho-rectified imagery has an extremely broad range of applications including habitat assessment, change detection, engineering design, or simply to establish baseline conditions. In many cases, the imagery is used to augment the LiDAR for direct feature recognition or as additional bands for automatic feature extraction. The co-registration of the digital imagery with high resolution LiDAR provides for the creation of detailed 3-D visualization models.
10 cm true color ortho photos
Ortho-imagery draped over the LiDAR derived highest hit surface model