A Colorado company under contract to the Capitol Region Council of Governments has completed a collection of high-resolution imagery of the entire state of Connecticut and its coastline in just five weeks.
The mapping data will be free to municipalities and state agencies, allowing them to:
- Perform design engineering for public works such as roads, drainage structures;
- Look at a particular site of location in detail without having to make a field visit or inspection; and,
- Perform code enforcement and detection of easement violations and other forms of illegal or unsafe encroachment, including trees over signage or power lines, among other uses.
The Sanborn Map Co. collected more than 42,500 resolution images during March and April, including more than 6,000 coastline images during low-tide conditions. It also collected more than 5,200 square miles of high-density light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data covering the entire state during the same time period.
The project, supported by a grant from the state Office of Policy and Management, is creating mapping products from the data, which will be delivered before the end of 2016. A Sanborn official said statewide collaboration on the project will result in several million dollars in tax-dollar savings, as opposed to each of the state’s 169 municipalities acquiring its own data.
