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The Grant

The North Carolina 911 Board awarded a grant of $12.3 million to the City of Durham’s Emergency Communications Center on September 25, 2009 for acquisition of statewide ortho imagery (aerial photography for base mapping purposes). The City of Durham recognized that the value of up-to-date, consistent orthoimagery would apply equally to its neighboring counties. The current situation in North Carolina is a patchwork of imagery (years captured and resolutions) and a slow pace of new imagery acquisition in difficult economic times. The Durham PSAP concluded that a statewide project would maximize benefits in a timely way.

The Project

The project will be managed by the NC Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (CGIA) in the NC OneMap framework of data access. CGIA will collaborate with the NC Floodplain Mapping Program to take advantage of the Qualifications-Based Selection contracts in place for ortho imagery acquisition, the NC Geodetic Survey to assure positional accuracy of the new products, and the Statewide Mapping Advisory Committee’s Working Group for Orthophotography Planning for technical advice. Digital cameras will be in the air in early 2010, and products will be available from late 2010 through early 2011. The products will include true color imagery captured and processed at 0.5-foot resolution (6-inch pixels, equivalent to mapping at 1 inch = 200 feet) as well as compressed images, distributed to each of 100 counties. Data will be downloadable through NC OneMap.

Contact Information

Tim Johnson
Director, Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
Phone: 919.754.6588

      

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