The Regional Aerial Photo Consortium enables the joint purchase of digital aerial orthophotography by local governments and nonprofit groups in greater Portland. Consortium purchase reduces each member's cost of obtaining photography through cost sharing. The digital imagery available includes the urban areas of Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington counties. In some years, the coverage is expanded to include rural areas, lidar and lidar derivatives. The intent of the consortium is to provide for a cost-effective means to acquire digital orthophotography on an annual basis.
The urban area covers 656 square miles. The urban/rural coverage covers 973 square miles.
Summer 2019 lidar corrections
In December 2020, members of the consortium came forward identifying issues with the raster and LAS files from the summer 2019 acquisition. These issues were shared with the vendor, GeoTerra, prompting a second round of QA and corrections. The lidar technical team has been meeting regularly with the vendor to discuss these issues and check-in on the correction status and process.
The following table is an estimated corrections schedule from the vendor. This will be updated regularly and have more detail about Metro's plan for redistribution later this Spring.
Last updated: Feb. 25, 2021
| Revised Dataset |
Estimated Completion Date |
|---|
|
Bare Earth
|
Mar. 31, 2021 |
| Highest Hit |
Mar. 31, 2021 |
| Intensity |
Apr. 15, 2021 |
| LAS |
Apr. 30, 2021
|
| Final Delivery and Report |
May 14, 2021 |
Summer 2020 aerial photo flight
- Vendor: Geoterra, Inc.
- Deliverable: 6-inch true color orthophotos, 6-inch near infrared false color orthophotos, 1-, 2-, 4-, 10-, and 20-foot resamples
- Area of interest: 1321 square miles
- Additional deliverables as specified in the written contract with Geoterra.
Project status
The 2020 orthoimagery was flown the week of July 12, 2020.
Last updated: Feb. 16, 2021
| Orthoimagery |
Weeks from acquisition
|
Due date |
Completion date |
Percentage complete |
|---|
| Orthoimagery acquisition |
0 |
July 31, 2020 |
July 15, 2020 |
100% |
| Processing and QC of raw photo data |
4 |
Aug. 12, 2020 |
Aug. 12, 2020 |
100% |
| Pilot project delivered |
8 |
Sept. 9, 2020 |
Sept. 9, 2020 |
100% |
| Prelim ortho delivery |
60 days |
Sept. 15, 2020 |
Sept. 15, 2020 |
100% |
| Pilot acceptance deadline |
10 |
Sept. 23, 2020 |
Sept. 23, 2020 |
100% |
| Full resolution TIFF orthos delivered |
15 |
Oct. 28, 2020 |
Nov. 4, 2020 |
100% |
| Review and acceptance by Metro and DAT vendor |
17 |
Nov. 11, 2020 |
Feb. 5, 2021 |
100% |
| Final delivery including all corrections and resamples |
19 |
Nov. 25, 2020 |
Feb. 5, 2021 |
100% |
| Final delivery acceptance |
20 |
Dec. 2, 2020 |
Feb. 11, 2021 |
100% |
| Distribution to consortium members |
22 |
Dec. 2 - Dec. 31, 2020 |
Expected Feb. 5 - Feb. 19, 2021 |
90% |