High Resolution
Aerial Imagery for Washington
See high-resolution aerial imagery, elevation models, and property data across the State of Washington.
Vexcel provides high-resolution aerial imagery, elevation models, and property data across Washington State, covering all 39 counties. Our comprehensive geospatial data supports infrastructure and roadway planning, environmental and utilities analysis, property assessments, change detection, high-definition mapping, and smart city initiatives. We cover urban centers such as Seattle, Spokane, Redmond, Vancouver, Tacoma, Bellingham, and Bellevue, along with rural areas throughout the state.
Orthomosaic Imagery
Get access to detailed, top-down views across Washington 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 15cm. 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 Washington at 7.5cm resolution.
Elevate
Elevate depicts 3D height information of the earth in high-spatial resolution across both urban and rural areas in Washington. 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. Vexcel offers digital surface models (DSM) and digital terrain models (DTM) for Washington.
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 Washington. 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
Washington can come under the duress of natural disasters, mainly wildfires. Vexcel captures, processes, and delivers imagery after major disasters that impact property. Providing rapid access to post-catastrophe imagery results in improved responses for insurers, emergency responders, and utility providers.
This imagery also helps government agencies understand the full picture of the impacted areas and track 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.
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.
Washington Coverage Map
FAQs for Vexcel Coverage in Washington
Q: What counties in Washington does Vexcel have aerial imagery and property data for?
Vexcel provides statewide aerial imagery and property coverage for all 39 counties in Washington. This includes every metropolitan, suburban, mountain, coastal, and rural area across the state.
Washington counties covered by Vexcel include: Adams, Asotin, Benton, Chelan, Clallam, Clark, Columbia, Cowlitz, Douglas, Ferry, Franklin, Garfield, Grant, Grays Harbor, Island, Jefferson, King, Kitsap, Kittitas, Klickitat, Lewis, Lincoln, Mason, Okanogan, Pacific, Pend Oreille, Pierce, San Juan, Skagit, Skamania, Snohomish, Spokane, Stevens, Thurston, Wahkiakum, Walla Walla, Whatcom, Whitman, and Yakima.
Q: Does Vexcel cover both cities and rural areas in Washington, commercial and residential properties?
Yes. Vexcel’s aerial imagery covers urban and rural areas across Washington, including commercial, industrial, agricultural, and residential properties.
Q: How often is aerial imagery updated in Washington?
Vexcel refreshes imagery in Washington 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 Washington are updated up to three times per year, with most population centers refreshed once or twice annually.
- Rural regions in Washington 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 Washington, please contact the Vexcel team at: https://vexceldata.com/request-a-demo/
Q: What resolution is Vexcel’s aerial imagery for Washington?
Vexcel publishes aerial imagery at 7.5cm to 15cm resolution (3–6 inches) in Washington. 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 Washington 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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Aerial surveys by fixed-wing aircraft.
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Aerial imagery and data for government and business.
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