Ghent, from directly above
51.0543° N 3.7174° E · Belgium
Sharpest free source hereOrthofoto Vlaanderen (Flanders 25cm)
Resolution25 cm/px
Free · no signup · view, download a georeferenced GeoTIFF, or time-travel to 2014.
The sharpest free view of Ghent
VNTG checks ~35 free imagery sources — national aerial surveys, Esri, live Sentinel-2 — and serves whichever is sharpest for the exact point you click. For Ghent that's Orthofoto Vlaanderen (Flanders 25cm) at 25 cm/px. Unlike a plain map, you can download it georeferenced, see the date it was captured, step back to 2014, and render the latest satellite pass. You're looking at the medieval towers and canals.
What you can do with Ghent in VNTG
- Look closer than Google, free — down to 25 cm/px.
- Download a georeferenced GeoTIFF (EPSG:3857) or PNG + world file.
- Time-travel — step Ghent back through every year since 2014 (Esri Wayback).
- See it fresh — render the latest Sentinel-2 pass, usually days old.
- Live overlays — active fires, cloud/weather, and precipitation radar.