Special Flight Flood Ahr 2022: Aerial Imagery of the Ahr Valley

INSPIRE Download Service provides aerial imagery from a special flight over the Ahr Valley in connection with the flood event of June 2022. The data is provided by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie via a dynamically generated ATOM feed linked to a WMS interface. The imagery has a ground resolution of 40 centimeters.

Use Cases

• Assess flood damage extent based on 40 cm resolution aerial imagery.
• Monitor post-flood landscape changes in the Ahr Valley.
• Create detailed base maps for recovery planning using geospatial data.
• Analyze land cover and terrain features affected by the flood event.

Strengths

• Imagery has a specified ground resolution of 40 centimeters.
• Data is provided by the authoritative national mapping agency Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie.
• The dataset is linked to a specific flood event on a known flight date (14 June 2022).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Collection Method

Special aerial flight.

Time Range

Flight date 14 June 2022.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-23 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Ahr Valley, Germany.