Quickbird Project

Overview

The QuickBird Project acquired satellite imagery for approximately 125,000 square kilometres of land across Ontario at a cost of $3.2 million. Several Ontario Government ministries funded the project. Digital Globe's QuickBird earth-observation satellite was used to capture the imagery, providing the highest resolution satellite data available commercially. Nearly 140,000 square kilometres of imagery has been captured and processed, including images of First Nations communities in northern Ontario. The imagery supports, among other purposes, fire management and ground water research.

Acquisition Dates

2005 – 2008

Access

QuickBird imagery (60 cm resolution) is only available to project partners and members of the Ontario Geospatial Data Exchange.

Format: various tile sizes as MrSid or Jpg2000

Indexes for the QuickBird Project are available as shape files (*.shp) that can be viewed with GIS software. These indexes provide the geographic extent and tile numbers for the project and can be requested from lio@ontario.ca.

More Information

lio@ontario.ca or (705) 755-1878