High Resolution
Aerial Imagery for Iowa
See aerial imagery, elevation models, and property data covering cities and rural areas across Iowa.
Vexcel provides high-resolution aerial imagery and geospatial data collected consistently across all 99 counties in Iowa. Check out our coverage map below. From major cities like Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, and Davenport to rural communities and farmland, our data supports infrastructure and roadway planning, environmental and utilities analysis, property assessments, change detection, and post-disaster response after tornadoes.
Orthomosaic Imagery
Get access to detailed, top-down views of Iowa to help you see areas at wide scale across rural areas or in rich definition in densely populated metro areas.
Wide Area Ortho is collected across the whole state at a resolution of 15-20cm. TrueOrtho and Urban Ortho provide views of urban areas at 7.5cm resolution.
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.
Oblique imagery is available for major metro areas in Iowa at 7.5cm resolution.
Elevate
Keep up with the demands of 3D visualization using our Elevate products: Digital Surface Model (DSM) and Digital Terrain Model (DTM). With DSM/DTM data, you can transform your workflows with a stronger context and deeper understanding of the earth’s surface and structures on that surface. DSM data provides a 3D view of objects that sit on the earth’s surface. DTM shows the bare earth with objects removed. Plus, our DSM data has a perfect pixel-to-data match with our TrueOrtho and Multispectral imagery, creating perfect spatial alignment between elevation data and imagery for a more consistent, trusted 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 Iowa. This wider color spectrum–invisible to the human eye–is published as color-infrared imagery, making it easier to identify living and non-living objects.
This top-down imagery helps classify areas at risk for wildfire, understand impervious surfaces and vegetation health, and more.
Disaster Imagery
In partnership with the insurance industry, Vexcel collects, processes, and delivers disaster imagery of properties affected by major events like tornadoes.
Providing rapid access to this post-disaster imagery enables insurers, government agencies, and others to understand the full scale of the impacted areas, respond and triage teams more effectively, and begin the rebuilding efforts.
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.
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: Building Footprints, Building Attributes, Property Attributes & Property Reports, Damage Assessment & Damage Reports.
Iowa Coverage Map
FAQs for Vexcel Coverage in Iowa
Q: What counties in Iowa does Vexcel have aerial imagery and property data for?
Vexcel provides statewide aerial imagery and property coverage for all 99 counties in Iowa. This includes every metropolitan, suburban, and rural region of the state.
Iowa counties covered by Vexcel include: Adair, Adams, Allamakee, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan, Buena Vista, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Cedar, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Clarke, Clay, Clayton, Clinton, Crawford, Dallas, Davis, Decatur, Delaware, Des Moines, Dickinson, Dubuque, Emmet, Fayette, Floyd, Franklin, Fremont, Greene, Grundy, Guthrie, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin, Harrison, Henry, Howard, Humboldt, Ida, Iowa, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Johnson, Jones, Keokuk, Kossuth, Lee, Linn, Louisa, Lucas, Lyon, Madison, Mahaska, Marion, Marshall, Mills, Mitchell, Monona, Monroe, Montgomery, Muscatine, O’Brien, Osceola, Page, Palo Alto, Plymouth, Pocahontas, Polk, Pottawattamie, Poweshiek, Ringgold, Sac, Scott, Shelby, Sioux, Story, Tama, Taylor, Union, Van Buren, Wapello, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Webster, Winnebago, Winneshiek, Woodbury, Worth, and Wright.
Q: Does Vexcel cover both cities and rural areas in Iowa, commercial and residential properties?
Yes. Vexcel’s aerial imagery covers urban and rural areas across Iowa, including commercial, industrial, agricultural, and residential properties.
Q: How often is aerial imagery updated in Iowa?
Vexcel refreshes imagery in Iowa 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 Iowa are updated up to three times per year, with most population centers refreshed once or twice annually.
- Rural regions in Iowa 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 Iowa, please contact the Vexcel team at: https://vexceldata.com/request-a-demo/
Q: What resolution is Vexcel’s aerial imagery for Iowa?
Vexcel publishes aerial imagery at 7.5cm to 15cm resolution (3–6 inches) in Iowa. 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 Iowa 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.
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