High Resolution
Aerial Imagery for Virginia
See high-resolution aerial imagery, elevation models, and property data across Virginia.
See high-resolution aerial imagery, elevation models, and property data across Virginia.
Vexcel delivers up-to-date aerial imagery and geospatial data collected across urban and rural areas of Virginia. Explore our coverage map below. From urban centers like Richmond, Virginia Beach, Arlington, and Norfolk, our high-resolution imagery, elevation models, and AI-derived property and roadway information support projects across public and private sectors, including government, insurance, solar, and more.
Vexcel provides top-down orthomosaic imagery across Virginia, refreshing coverage up to three times per year. Cities and metro areas are published at 7.5cm resolution, while statewide coverage is available at 15cm.
Captured from fixed-wing aircraft, Vexcel’s aerial imagery offers finer details than satellite views and a wider scale than drones.
Shift your perspective with high-resolution Oblique imagery, allowing a virtual tour around all four sides of any home, building, or area. Enhance your inspections or asset monitoring by spotting issues not visible from a top-down view.
Oblique imagery is available for major metro areas in Virginia at 7.5 cm resolution.
Elevate provides elevation information across Virginia’s urban and rural areas at a fraction of the cost of LiDAR collections. Collected during Vexcel’s aerial captures, Elevate ensures a true pixel-to-data match with our imagery products, creating seamless alignment between elevation data and imagery for consistent, reliable results.
Vexcel offers both digital surface models (DSM) and digital terrain models (DTM) for Virginia, delivering a trusted, accurate foundation for measurements and other analyses.
Using its market-leading UltraCam sensors, Vexcel captures a near-infrared color band alongside aerial imagery of Virginia’s urban and rural areas. This expanded color spectrum, invisible to the human eye, is published as color-infrared imagery, allowing easier identification of living versus non-living objects.
This top-down imagery supports the classification of wildfire risk areas, assessment of impervious surfaces, vegetation health analysis, and more.
Vexcel uses machine learning to extract detailed attributes from its high-resolution imagery of Virginia properties and roadways.
Access dozens of data points for every property in Virginia, including roof characteristics and building footprints. Plus, review roadway attributes to support auditing and analysis needs.
Q: What counties in Virginia does Vexcel have aerial imagery and property data for?
Vexcel provides statewide aerial imagery and property coverage for all 95 counties in Virginia. This includes every metropolitan, suburban, mountain, coastal, and rural area across the state.
Virginia counties covered by Vexcel include: Accomack, Albemarle, Alleghany, Amelia, Amherst, Appomattox, Arlington, Augusta, Bath, Bedford, Bland, Botetourt, Brunswick, Buchanan, Buckingham, Campbell, Caroline, Carroll, Charles City, Charlotte, Chesterfield, Clarke, Craig, Culpeper, Cumberland, Dickenson, Dinwiddie, Essex, Fairfax, Fauquier, Floyd, Fluvanna, Franklin, Frederick, Giles, Gloucester, Goochland, Grayson, Greene, Greensville, Halifax, Hanover, Henrico, Henry, Highland, Isle of Wight, James City, King and Queen, King George, King William, Lancaster, Lee, Loudoun, Louisa, Lunenburg, Madison, Mathews, Mecklenburg, Middlesex, Montgomery, Nelson, New Kent, Northampton, Northumberland, Nottoway, Orange, Page, Patrick, Pittsylvania, Powhatan, Prince Edward, Prince George, Prince William, Pulaski, Rappahannock, Richmond, Roanoke, Rockbridge, Rockingham, Russell, Scott, Shenandoah, Smyth, Southampton, Spotsylvania, Stafford, Surry, Sussex, Tazewell, Warren, Washington, Westmoreland, Wise, Wythe, and York.
Q: Does Vexcel cover both cities and rural areas in Virginia, commercial and residential properties?
Yes. Vexcel’s aerial imagery covers urban and rural areas across Virginia, including commercial, industrial, agricultural, and residential properties.
Q: How often is aerial imagery updated in Virginia?
Vexcel refreshes imagery in Virginia 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.
You can view the company’s ongoing collection plans at: https://vexceldata.com/countries/united-states/
For the most up-to-date coverage in Virginia, please contact the Vexcel team at: https://vexceldata.com/request-a-demo/
Q: What resolution is Vexcel’s aerial imagery for Virginia?
Vexcel publishes aerial imagery at 7.5cm to 15cm resolution (3–6 inches) in Virginia. 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 Virginia 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.