Aerial Imagery for Illinois
See aerial imagery, elevation models, and property data covering cities and rural areas across Illinois.
Vexcel provides high-resolution aerial imagery and geospatial data collected consistently across all 102 counties in Illinois. Check out our coverage map below. From major cities like Chicago, Springfield, and Peoria to suburban areas and agricultural regions, our data supports infrastructure and roadway planning, environmental and utilities analysis, property assessments, change detection, disaster response, and more.
102 counties
12.8 million population
7.5-15cm resolution
5.4 million buildings
Imagery & Geospatial Products for Illinois
Orthomosaic Imagery
Access to detailed, top-down views helps you see areas at wide scale across less populated areas or even in rich definition in densely populated metro areas like Chicago. 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 new Urban Ortho provides an additional view of urban areas at 7.5cm resolution for move 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 Illinois. 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 across Illinois. 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.
Disaster Imagery
Illinois can occasionally see disasters like tornadoes. Depending on the severity and impact of a tornado, Vexcel captures, processes, and delivers disaster imagery typically within a 24-hour timeframe following completion of aircraft collection. Providing rapid access to post-catastrophe imagery results in improved responses for emergency managers and insurers. This imagery also helps government agencies understand the full picture of the impacted areas and track progress as communities rebuild.
Elements
Our Elements product suite features AI-derived datasets designed to inventory and track changes, all extracted from Vexcel’s high-resolution aerial imagery.
In Illinois, Vexcel offers vectorized datasets for buildings, properties, and roadways to integrate into your GIS workflows.
For example, we have building footprint and roof details for more than 5.4 million structures identified in our ortho imagery for the Prairie State.
Illinois Coverage Map
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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