Aerial Imagery

Beginning in 2002, H-GAC began facilitating, along with the Geographic Data Committee (GDC), the acquisition of aerial imagery for the Houston-Galveston region on a biannual basis, with the goal of continuing this program into the future.

Specifications

• The imagery is tiled according to the lambert grid, with 1,873 4 sq. mi. tiles currently covered (see interactive map at bottom of page).
• The imagery has a 1 ft. pixel resolution, in MrSID 20:1 compressed format (limited availability of 6 in. resolution).
• Images can be viewed with any ArcGIS application, certain AutoCAD applications, and the free LizardTech application available at www.lizardtech.com.
• 1-Foot Metadata • 6-Inch Metadata • 2008 Coverage Map PDF

2008 Pricing

• 1-8 lamberts (for FTP download or on CD) $50 each
• 9-15 lamberts (for FTP download or on CD) $35 each
• Full Coverage (on external hard drive) $2,000 (price of hard drive included)
• 2006  tiles can be downloaded for free from the Map below.

GDC Member ID:

Yellow: 2008 Only Green: 2006 & 2008. (2008 tiles cannot be downloaded from Map.)