Planning and Development Services of Kenton County (PDSKC), on behalf of the LINK-GIS Partnership, is accepting proposals from aerial survey firms for Aerial Imagery Acquisition, Digital Orthoimagery Production, LiDAR Acquisition, Digital Elevation Dataset Production and Photogrammetric Updates to, or New Compilation of, GIS Planimetric Mapping for Kenton and Campbell Counties in Kentucky. A zip-compressed file […]
Posts tagged Aerial Photography
Piner Tornado: One Year Later
Tri-State Community Organizations Active in Disaster (COAD) has released a one year later report about the March 2, 2012 tornado. LinkGIS staff member Kathy Stephens is serving on COAD. A map LinkGIS produced with before and after aerial photography was used during the meeting. To see a clip from the meeting and for more information, […]
Aerial Photos of Tornado Damage
The GIS staff has created a website that allows the user to compare aerial photography in the Piner area from 2010 and March 2012. The photography covers the area affected by the March 2nd tornado. Address: http://linkgis.org/tornado/
LINK-GIS completes updating process; new aerial photography available online
A collaborative effort between Photo Science of Lexington and NKAPC’s LINK-GIS department ended this week when GIS staff loaded new photographic data into the system. A year in the making, the new digital data will provide LINK-GIS users new aerial images and more accurate terrain information in addition to other updated features in Kenton and […]
Staff readies new aerial photography for in-house and online GIS mapping
LINK-GIS will soon include updated aerial photographs as part of its hundreds of layers of information. NKAPC staff is nearing completion of work with Photo Science of Lexington to make available detailed aerial photography of Campbell and Kenton Counties taken last year. The new photography is expected to be ready by the end of next […]
Updated Floodplain Maps, Zoning Regs Underway for Kenton Co. Jurisdictions
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Kentucky Division of Water working with NKAPC staff work toward the development, release, and implementation of new floodplain maps for Kenton County. Updated zoning regulations recently approved by the Kenton County Planning Commission will complement the new mapping and provide added protection to the County’s floodplains. “Kenton […]
LINK-GIS to Receive Images from Spring Aerial Photography
Campbell and Kenton Counties will soon begin receiving products from NKAPC’s spring aerial photography and LiDAR efforts. Images and data from the upgrade effort could begin showing up on the LINK-GIS website as early as September. LiDAR is a new method of collecting the elevation data used to create accurate contour lines and other three […]
LINK-GIS Contracting for Updated Aerial Photography and Other Data
NKAPC staff is in the final steps of negotiating a contract with PhotoScience, Inc. of Lexington to provide new aerial photography and updated data for Campbell and Kenton Counties. This is the first update of information for the system since aerials were flown in 2004. The new information will be available later this year. “We’re […]
USGS Provides $20,000 Towards New Campbell, Kenton Aerial Photography
The US Geological Survey (USGS) has granted NKAPC $20,000 towards the cost of new digital orthophotography for Campbell and Kenton Counties. Orthophotos constitute the base layer of geographic information systems (GIS). Staff is developing contract plans for new photography to be flown next spring for LINK-GIS. “Bruce Bauch, the Kentucky representative for USGS, suggested that […]