High Resolution
Aerial Imagery for California
See high-resolution aerial imagery, elevation models, and property data across California.
Vexcel offers high-resolution aerial imagery and geospatial data collected frequently across California. Explore our coverage map below. From major cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, and Sacramento to the Sierra Nevada mountains, Central Valley farmland, and coastal communities, our data supports urban and roadway planning, environmental analysis, property insights, wildfire assessments, and more.
Orthomosaic Imagery
A detailed, top-down view helps you see an area at wide scale in rolling rural regions or in finely tuned pixels in densely populated metro areas. Wide Area Ortho is collected across the state at a resolution of 15cm. TrueOrtho is a finely calibrated view of urban areas at 7.5cm resolution with no building lean (parallax) or visible seamlines. And Urban Ortho provides an additional view of urban areas at 7.5cm resolution for more views in more places.
Oblique Imagery
Shift your view with high-resolution Oblique imagery and take a virtual tour around all four sides of a home, building, or area. Improve your inspection or asset monitoring by identifying concerns or issues that wouldn’t normally be visible with a straight down viewpoint. Get greater context of a landscape using detailed Oblique imagery.
Elevate
Elevate depicts 3D height information of the earth in high-spatial resolution across both urban and rural areas in California. Created during Vexcel’s aerial captures, customers get a real pixel-to-height data match with other Vexcel aerial products. The result: A perfect spatial alignment between elevation data and imagery for a more consistent and trusted accurate output.
Multispectral Imagery
Using its market-leading UltraCam sensors, Vexcel collects a near-infrared color band while capturing aerial imagery of urban and rural areas in California. This wider color spectrum-invisible to the human eye-makes it easier to identify living and non-living objects. This type of data is ideal for classifying areas at risk for wildfire, or when reviewing areas post-disaster to quickly determine what vegetation is still living and what has been destroyed.
Gray Sky
Vexcel captures and processes disaster imagery, focusing on properties impacted after major disasters like the LA Fires. Providing timely access to post-catastrophe imagery enhances response efforts for emergency managers and insurers. This imagery and AI-derived damage assessments also support government agencies in understanding the full scope of impacted areas and tracking progress as communities rebuild.
Elements
Enhance your property and building visualization with accurate, detailed, and quick property data from Elements, an entire product suite of automated insights. Machine learning is applied to Vexcel’s timestamped, high-resolution aerial imagery, and the output is 40+ property and building attributes in a matter of seconds. Plus, as new imagery is collected and published, Elements is updated so you can access the most recent property information. Help drive innovation across your organization with next level property and building detail all with the Elements suite. The Vexcel Elements product suite includes: Building Footprints, Building Attributes, Property Attributes & Property Reports, Damage Assessment & Damage Reports.
California Coverage Map
FAQs for Vexcel Coverage in California
Q: What counties in California does Vexcel have aerial imagery and property data for?
Vexcel provides statewide aerial imagery and property coverage for all 58 counties in California. This includes every metropolitan, suburban, mountain, coastal, and rural area, ensuring consistent access to high-resolution imagery and property data across the state.
California counties covered by Vexcel include: Alameda, Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Contra Costa, Del Norte, El Dorado, Fresno, Glenn, Humboldt, Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Lake, Lassen, Los Angeles, Madera, Marin, Mariposa, Mendocino, Merced, Modoc, Mono, Monterey, Napa, Nevada, Orange, Placer, Plumas, Riverside, Sacramento, San Benito, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Solano, Sonoma, Stanislaus, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Tulare, Tuolumne, Ventura, Yolo, and Yuba.
Q: Does Vexcel cover both cities and rural areas in California, commercial and residential properties?
Yes. Vexcel’s aerial imagery covers urban and rural areas across California, including commercial, industrial, agricultural, and residential properties.
Q: How often is aerial imagery updated in California?
Vexcel refreshes imagery in California on a regular schedule as part of its national aerial imagery program, the largest aerial imagery program in the United States. In short, Vexcel refreshes more than 90% of the U.S. population annually.
- Urban areas in California are updated up to three times per year, with most population centers refreshed once or twice annually.
- Rural regions in California are regularly refreshed to maintain current, high-quality coverage statewide.
You can view the company’s ongoing collection plans at: https://vexceldata.com/countries/united-states/
For the most up-to-date coverage in California, please contact the Vexcel team at: https://vexceldata.com/request-a-demo/
Q: What resolution is Vexcel’s aerial imagery for California?
Vexcel publishes aerial imagery at 7.5cm to 15cm resolution (3–6 inches) in California. Urban area imagery is published at 7.5cm (3-inch) resolution, and Vexcel has a statewide imagery collection that includes urban and rural areas at 15cm (6-inch) resolution.
Need imagery at a custom spec? In addition to its ongoing data program, Vexcel can capture on-demand collections in California using its own fleet or through third-party fliers that specialize in custom, on-demand collections. Lidar is also available on demand. Contact us for more info.
Large-format UltraCam cameras & sensors.
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Aerial surveys by fixed-wing aircraft.
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Aerial imagery and data for government and business.
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