Digital Orthophotos (DOP) 2018 – aerial photography (WMS)

This service provides aerial photographs of the Cologne city area from 2018 as Digital Orthophotos (DOP). These are basically distortion-free, scale-to-scale and geo-referenced images of the Earth’s surface. They are created from oriented aerial images and a digital elevation model (DGM). Tilting effects (folding effects) can be seen in DOPs, especially for elevated elements. The pictures show the entire city of Cologne from 2018. The ground resolution is 6 cm per pixel and it is multispectral images with 3 channels (red, green, blue). Date of flight and data recording: 04.-06.06.2018.