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Australian Historical Aerial Photography Collection

Geoscience Australia is responsible for the records and custody of Commonwealth aerial photography, acquired since 1928 up to the most recent analogue film capture in mid-1990s. Subsequent comparable information is available in the form of satellite imagery or direct digital aerial image capture. The majority of the landmass of Australia is covered by black and white photography at 1:80,000 scale. The near complete coverage was undertaken three times, in 1950s, 1960s and 1980s. Metadata about aerial photo surveys is recorded as flight diagrams on 1:250,000, 1:100,000 & 1:50,000 maps showing the approximate aircraft flight paths, selective depiction of photo centres, and other survey parameters.


<b>Value:</b> Aerial imagery can be used to study change over time for land use, vegetation, environmental quality, etc.


<b>Scope: </b>Images in the collection have been acquired since 1928 up to the most recent analogue film capture in mid-1990s. Subsequent comparable information is available in the form of satellite imagery or direct digital aerial image capture. The majority of the landmass of Australia is covered by black and white photography at 1:80,000 scale. The near complete coverage was undertaken three times, in 1950s, 1960s and 1980s.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2010-01-01
Date (Publication)
2021-11-05T04:19:18
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/144649

Identifier

Codespace

Digital Object Identifier

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Author

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
Purpose

Aerial imagery can be used to study change over time for land use, vegetation, environmental quality, etc.

Status
On going
Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
Resource provider

Place and Communities Division

External Contact
Point of contact

Mills, L.

Place and Communities Internal Contact
Spatial representation type

Spatial resolution

Level of detail

The ground sample distance (GSD) in a digital photo of the ground from air is the distance between pixel centres measured on the ground. GSD for a scanned photo depends on the scanning resolution and the scale of the original photography. This collection is being scanned mostly at 16 microns (µm) resolution and the scale ranges from approximately 1:10,000 to 1:80,000. Therefore, the GSD represented in digitised material within this collection ranges from approximately 15 centimetres (cm) to 1.3 meters (m).

Extent

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Temporal extent

Time period
1928-07-18 1997-07-10
Maintenance and update frequency
Annually

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Protocol

FILE:DATA-DIRECTORY

Name of the resource

Data Store directory containing the digital product files

Description

Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes

theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
  • EARTH SCIENCES

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  • HVC_144649

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  • HVC - High Value Collection

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  • DC2020

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  • aerial photography

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  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Access constraints
License
Use constraints
License

Resource constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice facsimile
OnLine resource

View catalogue records associated with this collection

View catalogue records associated with this collection

Distribution format

Resource lineage

Statement

<b>Source:</b> Commonwealth<br />

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<b>Form:</b> Only one third of the collection has been digitised to-date from film i.e. most of the collection is still only available on film. All digitised material is stored as raw images at full resolution in lossless format, and at a reduced resolutions in lossy format. Very few images are rectified and mosaicked. The majority of flight diagrams have been scanned to high resolution images and georeferenced. All flight diagrams have also been converted to a vector database to enable support for spatial searches. Work is ongoing.<br />

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This Collection record was created to enhance the discoverability and management of the individual products contained in the collection. See the individual eCat records for product specific lineage.

Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security Classification System

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/8e6cb9f4-3d54-436c-aebb-ff4fae98d921

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
Point of contact

Mills, L.

Place and Communities Internal Contact

Type of resource

Resource scope
Collection
Name

Geoscience Australia (GA) High Value Collection

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/144649

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/857c5e68-6a83-4d1c-955e-5a71bd390c71

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/8e6cb9f4-3d54-436c-aebb-ff4fae98d921

Date info (Creation)
2021-01-06T22:40:52
Date info (Revision)
2021-01-06T22:40:52

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

Title

Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition

Version 2.0, September 2018

Citation identifier
https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

 
 

Spatial extent

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Keywords

DC2020 HVC - High Value Collection HVC_144649 Published_External aerial photography
theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
EARTH SCIENCES

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