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Historical Aerial Photography Information Hub

This Hub contains information, resources and discovery of Commonwealth Historical Aerial Photography across Australia. Geoscience Australia has developed the Historical Aerial Photography (HAP) collection in an online data delivery system. Using the application, uses can search and download the commonwealth photography collection for free. The hub demonstrates the breadth of the collection and showcases the efforts in collecting and curating an extensive physical collection of film and documents.


Geoscience Australia has the most extensive historical aerial photography collection in terms of land coverage and time (from 1928-1996). This online catalogue provides means of easy search of the collection records. The mapping system allows users to understand what information is available and, if digitised, to preview and download the image data.


The application contains a map which users can search areas, current location or an area of interest, as well as customize the search criteria (date range, film number etc). The search results list the available aerial photography or flight line diagram, and if is available for direct download for free.

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Identification info

Date (Unavailable)
2021-03-22
Date (Publication)
2021-03-22T02:20:02
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/145270

Identifier

Codespace

Digital Obejct Identifier

Purpose

This Hub contains information, resources and discovery of Commonwealth Historical Aerial Photography across Australia. Geoscience Australia has developed the Historical Aerial Photography (HAP) collection in an online data delivery system. Using the application, uses can search and download the commonwealth photography collection for free. The hub demonstrates the breadth of the collection and showcases the efforts in collecting and curating an extensive physical collection of film and documents.


Geoscience Australia has the most extensive historical aerial photography collection in terms of land coverage and time (from 1928-1996). This online catalogue provides means of easy search of the collection records. The mapping system allows users to understand what information is available and, if digitised, to preview and download the image data.


The application contains a map which users can search areas, current location or an area of interest, as well as customize the search criteria (date range, film number etc). The search results list the available aerial photography or flight line diagram, and if is available for direct download for free.

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

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
Spatial representation type

Spatial resolution

Level of detail

Various

Extent

N
S
E
W


Temporal extent

Time period
1928-01-01 1996-12-31
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

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

  • Published_External

  • HVC 144649

Feature type
  • Satellite Imagery

Product
  • National Dataset

Place
  • Australia

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

Associated resource

Association Type
null
Title

Geoscience Australia Aerial Photography Coverage

Citation identifier
66004

Citation identifier
a05f7892-d36a-7506-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Website

https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/66004

Link to eCat metadata record landing page

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
OnLine resource

Historical Aerial Photography Information Hub

Historical Aerial Photography Information Hub

Distribution format
  • html

Resource lineage

Statement

This information HUB will supercede all the information contained within the Geoscience Australia webpages for Historical Aerial Photography. See https://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/national-location-information/historical-aerial-photography

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/ee1108c2-a4ec-4d1c-bb90-06ecf699c4c5

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

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

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
Owner

Mills, L

PSCD Internal Contact

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Name

Historical Aerial Photography Information Hub

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/145270

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/ee1108c2-a4ec-4d1c-bb90-06ecf699c4c5

Date info (Creation)
2025-05-08T23:32:43.454Z
Date info (Creation)
2021-03-21T23:20:40
Date info (Revision)
2025-05-08T23:37:14.502Z

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

N
S
E
W


Keywords

HVC 144649 HVC_144649 National Dataset Published_External Satellite Imagery
theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
EARTH SCIENCES

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