NSW Imagery Web Service: Aerial and Satellite Imagery for New South Wales

New South Wales imagery web service provides spatial imagery covering the entire state. It is a cached map service combining multiple data sets, including Landsat 2014 satellite imagery, various orthorectified aerial imagery from Spatial Services, AAM, and Jacobs, and Spookfish/Eagleview 2018 imagery. The service is provided by Spatial Services (DCS) and was last updated on 2026-04 09.

Use Cases

• Create base maps for government programs based on the described orthorectified imagery.
• Analyze land cover changes over time based on the multi-year, multi-source imagery compilation.
• Support emergency services planning and response using the high-resolution town and project imagery.
• Integrate imagery into web applications via the WMS or ArcGIS REST service protocols.

Strengths

• Covers the full geographic extent of New South Wales.
• Combines imagery from multiple sources and years, including Landsat 2014 and aerial imagery up to 2018.
• Provides progressive overlay where higher resolution and more recent imagery overlays older, lower resolution data.

Limitations

• The service is scheduled for retirement, with users directed to transition to a GDA2020 version.
• Row count, column details, and specific license information are unknown.
• The spatial reference (WGS 84 ≈ GDA94) may cause misalignment in GDA2020 environments.

Provenance

Source

Spatial Services (DCS)

Collection Method

Compilation of multiple aerial and satellite imagery datasets into a cached web map service.

Time Range

Imagery spans from at least 2002 to 2018, based on the listed source datasets.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 10:12:52.594537; however, the service is marked as retiring.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia