Aerial photographs were acquired for the Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands Benthic Mapping Project in 1999 by NOAA Aircraft Operation Centers aircraft and National Geodetic Survey cameras and personnel. Approximately 600, color, 9 by 9 inch photos were taken of the coastal waters of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands at 1:48000 scale. Specific sun angle and maximum percent cloud cover re...

Vertical aerial photography is an airborne mapping technique, which uses a high-resolution camera mounted vertically underneath the aircraft to capture reflected light in the red, green, blue and for some datasets, near infra-red spectrum. Images of the ground are captured at resolutions between 10cm and 50cm, and ortho-rectified using simultaneous LIDAR and GPS to a high spatial accuracy.

The Environment Agency has been capturing vertical aerial photography data regularly since 2006 on a project by project basis each ranging in coverage from a few square kilometers to hundreds of square kilometers. The data is available as a raster dataset in ECW (enhanced compressed wavelet) format as either a true colour (RGB), near infra-red (NIR) or a 4-band (RGBN) raster. Where imagery has been captured under incident response conditions and the lighting conditions may be sub-optimal this is defined by the prefix IR. The data are presented as tiles in British National Grid OSGB 1936 projections. Data is available in 5km download zip files for each year of survey. Within each zip file are ECW files aligned to the Ordinance Survey grid. The size of each tile is dependent upon the spatial resolution of the data.

Please refer to the metadata index catalgoues for the survey date captured, type of survey and spatial resolution of the imagery.

Aerial photographs were acquired for the Main Eight Hawaiian Islands Benthic Mapping Project in 2000 by NOAA Aircraft Operation Centers aircraft and National Geodetic Survey cameras and personnel. Approximately 1,500, color, 9 by 9 inch photos were taken of the coastal waters of the Main Eight Hawaiian Island at 1:24,000 scale. Specific sun angle and maximum percent cloud cover were adhered to...

High resolution orthorectified images combine the image characteristics of an aerial photograph with the geometric qualities of a map. An orthoimage is a uniform-scale image where corrections have been made for feature displacement such as building tilt and for scale variations caused by terrain relief, sensor geometry, and camera tilt. A mathematical equation based on ground control points, sensor calibration information, and a digital elevation model is applied to each pixel to rectify the image to obtain the geometric qualities of a map.

A digital orthoimage may be created from several photographs mosaicked to form the final image. The source imagery may be black-and-white, natural color, or color infrared with a pixel resolution of 1-meter or finer. With orthoimagery, the resolution refers to the distance on the ground represented by each pixel.

This data set includes aerial photography of Barrow, Alaska, which has been geocorrected to a 2002 QuickBird satellite image or Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (IFSAR) imagery. Photography included in the set is from these specific dates, from 1948 to 1997: 4 August 1948, 29 July 1949, 12-14 August 1955, 12-24 August 1962, 14 July 1964, 15 July 1979, 31 August 1984, and 16 July 1997.

Data are in GeoTIFF and ESRI Shapefile formats with FGDC compliant metadata. Data on DVD are available for ordering. Note: The data for 14 July 1964 span both DVDs. Send an email to NSIDC User Services at nsidc@nsidc.org to order the data.

The imagery posted on this site is of the Florida coast after Hurricane Wilma made landfall. The regions photographed range from Key West to Sixmile Bend, Florida. The aerial photograph missions were conducted by the NOAA Remote Sensing Division the day after Wilma made landfall, October 25 and concluded October 27. The images were acquired from an altitude of 7,500 feet, using an Emerge/Applan...

The Aerial Photography Single Frame Records collection is a large and diverse group of imagery acquired by Federal organizations from 1937 to the present. Over 6.4 million frames of photographic images are available for download as medium and high resolution digital products. The high resolution data provide access to photogrammetric quality scans of aerial photographs with sufficient resolution to reveal landscape detail and to facilitate the interpretability of landscape features. Coverage is predominantly over the United States and includes portions of Central America and Puerto Rico. Individual photographs vary in scale, size, film type, quality, and coverage.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Aerial Photography data set includes over 2.5 million film transparencies. Beginning in 1937, photographs were acquired for mapping purposes at different altitudes using various focal lengths and film types. The resultant black-and-white photographs contain less than 5 percent cloud cover and were acquired under rigid quality control and project specifications (e.g., stereo coverage, continuous area coverage of map or administrative units). Prior to the initiation of the National High Altitude Photography (NHAP) program in 1980, the USGS photography collection was one of the major sources of aerial photographs used for mapping the United States. Since 1980, the USGS has acquired photographs over project areas that require photographs at a larger scale than the photographs in the NHAP and National Aerial Photography Program collections.

The imagery posted on this site is of the Florida panhandle and surrounding regions after Hurricane Dennis made landfall. The regions photographed range from Pensacola to Panama City, Florida. The aerial photograph missions were conducted by the NOAA Remote Sensing Division the day after Dennis made landfall, July 11 and concluded July 13. The images were acquired from an altitude of 7,500 feet...

Commissioned by the governments participating in the Beeldmateriaal partnership, an aerial photograph covering the entire country is produced annually during the summer months. As of the 2016 edition, this product will be made available as open data via PDOK. This aerial photograph has a resolution of 25 centimeters. The resolution indicates how large a pixel is on the earth's surface, in this case 25 by 25 centimeters.

As of the 2021 edition, in addition to the above-mentioned aerial photograph, the partnership will also make available the visual material that will be collected in the spring as open data. These are aerial photographs with a high resolution (HR) of 7.5 centimetres. Shortly after collection, a ‘quick’ variant is offered on a temporary basis; this footage does not yet meet all the requirements (e.g. with regard to geometry, radiometry and the connection to adjacent images), but is already usable as a viewing picture and for orientation. The final product is made available as soon as the entire production process has been completed and the quality control has been positively concluded. This product replaces the ‘quick’ variant.

The products available are the so-called orthophoto mosaics. These are composed of the central parts of the individual aerial photographs, thus minimising the overturning of tall objects in the mosaics. The orthophoto mosaics of the 25 centimeter aerial photo are offered both as a color photo (Red Green Blue) and in an InfraRed version; for the 7.5 centimetre aerial photograph, it is only available in a colour version (RGB).

Within the web services a number of layers are offered, namely:

• Aerial (year) Quick Ortho 8cm RGB (temporary version); • Aerial photograph (year) Ortho 8cm RGB (final version); • Aerial Photo News Ortho 8cm RGB

• Aerial (year) Quick Ortho 25cm RGB (temporary version); • Aerial (year) Ortho 25m RGB (final version); • Aerial Photo Current Ortho 25cm RGB;

The various layers are gradually being filled in the current year. The layers Actueel_ortho25 and Actueel_ortho25[IR] always refer to the dataset of the most recent country-covering year of the 25 centimetre aerial photograph.

The layer Actueel_orthoHR always refers to the dataset of the most recent year of the 7.5 centimeter aerial photograph. New layers are added every year. A maximum of 5 years are displayed.

PDOK offers the open data visual material in the form of web services. The partnership offers via opendata.beeldmateriaal.nl the possibility to obtain data in the form of physical deliveries (downloads).

Information about the progress of the production of the current year can be found on beeldmateriaal.nl.

Spring 2023

The imagery posted on this site is of the Florida panhandle and surrounding regions after Hurricane Ivan made landfall. The regions photographed range from Gulf Port, Mississippi, to Fort Walton Beach, Florida. The aerial photograph missions were conducted by the NOAA Remote Sensing Division the day after Ivan made landfall, September 17 and concluded September 20. The images were acquired from...

'High resolution orthorectified images combine the image characteristics of an aerial photograph with the geometric qualities of a map. An orthoimage is a uniform-scale image where corrections have been made for feature displacement such as building tilt and for scale variations caused by terrain relief, sensor geometry, and camera tilt. A mathematical equation based on ground control points, sensor calibration information, and a digital elevation model is applied to each pixel to rectify the image to obtain the geometric qualities of a map. A digital orthoimage may be created from several photographs mosaicked to form the final image. The source imagery may be black-and-white, natural color, color infrared, or color near infrared (4-band) with a pixel resolution of 1-meter or finer. With orthoimagery, the resolution refers to the distance on the ground represented by each pixel. '

World Imagery provides one meter or better satellite and aerial imagery for most of the world’s landmass and lower resolution satellite imagery worldwide. The map is currently comprised of the following sources:Worldwide 15-m resolution TerraColor imagery at small and medium map scales.Vantor imagery basemap products around the world: Vivid Premium at 15-cm HD resolution for select metropolitan areas, Vivid Advanced 30-cm HD for more than 1,000 metropolitan areas, and Vivid Standard from 1.2-m to 0.6-cm resolution for the most of the world, with 30-cm HD across the United States and parts of Western Europe. More information on the Vantor products is included below. High-resolution aerial photography contributed by the GIS User Community. This imagery ranges from 30-cm to 3-cm resolution. You can contribute your imagery to this map and have it served by Esri via the Community Maps Program. Vantor Basemap ProductsVivid PremiumProvides committed image currency in a high-resolution, high-quality image layer over defined metropolitan and high-interest areas across the globe. The product provides 15-cm HD resolution imagery.Vivid AdvancedProvides committed image currency in a high-resolution, high-quality image layer over defined metropolitan and high-interest areas across the globe. The product includes a mix of native 30-cm and 30-cm HD resolution imagery.Vivid StandardProvides a visually consistent and continuous image layer over large areas through advanced image mosaicking techniques, including tonal balancing and seamline blending across thousands of image strips. Available from 1.2-m down to 30-cm HD. More on Vantor HD. Imagery UpdatesYou can use the Updates Mode in the World Imagery Wayback app to learn more about recent and pending updates. Accessing this information requires a user login with an ArcGIS organizational account. CitationsThis layer includes imagery provider, collection date, resolution, accuracy, and source of the imagery. With the Identify tool in ArcGIS Desktop or the ArcGIS Online Map Viewer you can see imagery citations. Citations returned apply only to the available imagery at that location and scale. You may need to zoom in to view the best available imagery. Citations can also be accessed in the World Imagery with Metadata web map. UseYou can add this layer to the ArcGIS Online Map Viewer, ArcGIS Desktop, or ArcGIS Pro. To view this layer with a useful reference overlay, open the Imagery Hybrid web map. FeedbackHave you ever seen a problem in the Esri World Imagery Map that you wanted to report? You can use the Imagery Map Feedback web map to provide comments on issues. The feedback will be reviewed by the ArcGIS Online team and considered for one of our updates.

This dataset contains paired high resolution orthorectified aerial photography provided by the Waikato Region Aerial Photography initiative, paired with Sentinel-2 satellite images. These images were collected as part of a satellite imagery super-resolution research project. The aerial photograph was down-sampled to a spatial resolution of 2.5m per pixel, while the satellite images were taken at a spatial resolution of 10m per pixel. The satellite images were taken from 8 fly-bys between 16th January to 2nd March 2019 so that it is temporally consistent with the aerial photographs taken in February of 2019.

World Imagery provides one meter or better satellite and aerial imagery in many parts of the world and lower resolution satellite imagery worldwide. The map includes 15m TerraColor imagery at small and mid-scales (~1:591M down to ~1:288k) for the world. The map features Maxar imagery at 0.3m resolution for select metropolitan areas around the world, 0.5m resolution across the United States and parts of Western Europe, and 1m resolution imagery across the rest of the world. In addition to commercial sources, the World Imagery map features high-resolution aerial photography contributed by the GIS User Community. This imagery ranges from 0.3m to 0.03m resolution (down to ~1:280 in select communities). For more information on this map, including the terms of use, visit us online at https://goto.arcgisonline.com/maps/World_Imagery

This data set contains high-resolution QuickBird imagery and geospatial data for the entire Barrow QuickBird image area (156.15° W - 157.07° W, 71.15° N - 71.41° N) and Barrow B4 Quadrangle (156.29° W - 156.89° W, 71.25° N - 71.40° N), for use in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing software. The original QuickBird data sets were acquired by DigitalGlobe from 1 to 2 August 2002, and consist of orthorectified satellite imagery. Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)-compliant metadata for all value-added data sets are provided in text, HTML, and XML formats.

Accessory layers include: 1:250,000- and 1:63,360-scale USGS Digital Raster Graphic (DRG) mosaic images (GeoTIFF format); 1:250,000- and 1:63,360-scale USGS quadrangle index maps (ESRI Shapefile format); an index map for the 62 QuickBird tiles (ESRI Shapefile format); and a simple polygon layer of the extent of the Barrow QuickBird image area and the Barrow B4 quadrangle area (ESRI Shapefile format).

Unmodified QuickBird data comprise 62 data tiles in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) Zone 4 in GeoTIFF format. Standard release files describing the QuickBird data are included, along with the DigitalGlobe license agreement and product handbooks.

The baseline geospatial data support education, outreach, and multi-disciplinary research of environmental change in Barrow, which is an area of focused scientific interest. Data are provided on four DVDs. This product is available only to investigators funded specifically from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Office of Polar Programs (OPP), Arctic Sciences Section. An NSF OPP award number must be provided when ordering this data. Contact NSIDC User Services at nsidc@nsidc.org to order the data, and include an NSF OPP award number in the email.

Pocatello, Idaho historical orthomosaic for 1975 was created by collecting, scanning, merging and georectifying historic photography of Pocatello. The total spatial error is less than 1 meter. These historical orthomosaic images were derived using SfM (Structure-from-motion photogrammetry). SfM uses a series of overlapping images aligned to form a 3D representation. Classification resulted in raster and vector data with discrete classes grouped into objects located in the urban corridor of Pocatello. High-resolution aerial photography of the Pocatello area was provided by Valley Air Photos and the Idaho State Historical Society for 1975. All images were transferred from a traditional 9x9 photograph and scanned at a 1210 dpi resolution. (Date: 09/19/1975, Scale: 1:12,000, Total GSD [GSD = photo scale x scanning resolution]: 209, Scanned resolution: 11240x11240 1210 dpi). The general workflow for processing was as follows: Image collection, image pre-processing combined with gps positioning and differential correction. Photo alignment, point cloud generation, point cloud meshing, orthomosaic and DSM (Digital Surface Models) output. Photos were aligned using Agisoft Photoscan. Focal lengths for data sets were 152mm. GPS points were collected for ground truthing. Photo alignment, dense cloud, and mesh generation using ground control points, resulted in orthomosaics and DSMs (Digital Surface Models) for time periods. Orthomosaics were produced at a fine scale spatial resolution: .25m resolution in all cases except the final year at .5m due to differences in scale of the original imagery. Each orthomosaic and DEM was outputted at .5 m and 1 m resolution respectively, in order to maintain continuity between data sets. See Brock Lipple Thesis, 2015 for more information about the scanning and merging process.Data are sourced from: https://data.nkn.uidaho.edu/dataset/pocatello-idaho-historic-orthoimagery-1975-1-meter-resolutionPlease cite as: Delparte, D., & Lipple, B. (2016). Pocatello, Idaho Historic Orthoimagery for 1975 (~1 meter resolution) [Data set]. University of Idaho. https://doi.org/10.7923/G4D798BCIndividual image tiles can be downloaded using the Idaho Aerial Imagery Explorer.These data can be bulk downloaded from a web accessible folder.Users should be aware that temporal changes may have occurred since these data were collected and that some parts of these data may no longer represent actual surface conditions. Users should not use these data for critical applications without a full awareness of the limitations of these data as described in the lineage or elsewhere.

Digital orthophotos (DOPs) are high-resolution, distortion-free aerial images that have a uniform image scale and an exact relation to the country coordinate system. They document the state of landscape at a given time and contain completely all landscape information visible from the “bird perspective” without having already been selected or structured. DOPs are photo-based, pixel-based, geocoded and true to position and are available with a soil resolution of 0.1 m (DOP10), 0.2 m (DOP20) and 0.4 m (DOP40). Through the use of image processing methods, DOP is created from the current aerial stock. Starting with the 2004 flying year, the DOPs are also available as color infrared images (CIR). Since 2013, the airfields have been included both inside and outside the certified situation. The timeliness for the country’s area is about three years. Aerial photographs or DOPs are ideal for comprehending the historical development of landscapes and settlements. This download service provides colored DOP with a ground resolution of 0.2 m via an atomic feed. The RGBI tiles are available in full color resolution and the RGB and CIR tiles are reduced to 256 colors.

Bradford City Centre High Resolution Aerial Photography