Product catalogue
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
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Digital Object Identifier
- Cited responsible party
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Author Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice
- Purpose
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Aerial imagery can be used to study change over time for land use, vegetation, environmental quality, etc.
- Status
- On going
- Point of contact
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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
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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
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Product data repository: Various Formats
- Protocol
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FILE:DATA-DIRECTORY
- Name of the resource
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Data Store directory containing the digital product files
- Description
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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
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EARTH SCIENCES
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- {1}
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HVC_144649
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- {1}
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HVC - High Value Collection
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- {1}
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DC2020
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- {1}
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aerial photography
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- {1}
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Published_External
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Resource constraints
- Title
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
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CC-BY
- Edition
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4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- License
Resource constraints
- Title
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distributor contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Distributor Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice facsimile
- OnLine resource
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View catalogue records associated with this collection
View catalogue records associated with this collection
- Distribution format
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Resource lineage
- Statement
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<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
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Australian Government Security Classification System
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/8e6cb9f4-3d54-436c-aebb-ff4fae98d921
- Title
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GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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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
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Geoscience Australia (GA) High Value Collection
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with
uuid
- Citation identifier
- eCatId/144649
- Date info (Creation)
- 2021-01-06T22:40:52
- Date info (Revision)
- 2021-01-06T22:40:52
Metadata standard
- Title
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AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115-3
- Title
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Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014
- Edition
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Version 2.0, September 2018
- Citation identifier
- https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551