RP_DOP20rgb: German Orthophoto Imagery for Flood Monitoring

German aerial imagery from the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, captured as part of special flights for flood monitoring. The dataset consists of digital orthophotos (DOP) provided as 3-channel true color (RGB) raster images with a ground resolution of 20 centimeters per pixel. It is served via a Web Map Service (WMS) and was last updated on March 23, 2026.

Use Cases

• Monitor flood extent and impact based on high-resolution aerial imagery.
• Analyze land cover and land use changes in flood-prone areas.
• Create or update base maps for geographic information systems using orthorectified imagery.
• Support hydrological modeling and disaster response planning with current visual data.

Strengths

• Provides high-resolution imagery with a ground resolution of 20 cm/pixel.
• Imagery is orthorectified, correcting for terrain displacement and camera tilt.
• Data is served via a standardized Web Map Service (WMS) protocol for easy integration.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Collection Method

Derived from special flight aerial photography for flood events.

Freshness

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

Geography

Germany (inferred from source organization)