Orthophotographs of Shawinigan, Quebec from May 2020

May 2020 orthophotographs covering each sector of the city of Shawinigan, Quebec. The dataset consists of GEOTIF files and was published by the Government and Municipalities of Québec. The metadata was last updated on the platform in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Land-use and land-cover classification based on high-resolution aerial imagery.
• Urban infrastructure mapping and change detection for the city of Shawinigan.
• Training computer vision models for object detection in georeferenced aerial photographs.
• Creating or updating base maps for municipal planning and public services.

Strengths

• Imagery has a specific temporal coverage from May 2020.
• Data is georeferenced in the GEOTIF format, suitable for GIS applications.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Government and Municipalities of Québec | Gouvernement et municipalités du Québec

Collection Method

Aerial or satellite orthophotography.

Time Range

May 2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 18:32:37.000208; freshness should be verified

Geography

City of Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada