Satelite Images

The Importance Of Old Aerial Photos

There are many people looking for old aerial photos or historical aerial photographs for business or for personal reasons. They may need to locate the boundaries of their family property or an old farm. They might wish to acquire old aerial photos as a record to show the changes that have taken place in their neighborhood, or to give it to someone as a gift.

Other useful applications for old aerial photos and historical aerial photographs are land use comparison, boundary disputes, local studies, town planning, public enquiries, publications, genealogy, coastal monitoring, legal issues, insurance, environmental analysis etc.

NAPP or National Aerial Photography Program is a federal program coordinated by the USGS, and they use the NAPP products for the purpose of revising maps. Historical Aerial Photographs contain a very large and diverse group of aerial photographs from the USGS' historical film archives. These us aerial photos date from the 1940's to the present time. They are from a wide array of sources like NASA, USGS, BLM, US Air Force, US Navy etc.

APFO, or the Aerial Photography Field Office, is a primary source of aerial photographs for the US department of agriculture. They hold over 10,000,000 images, beginning from 1955 to the present time. They also hold one of the biggest collections of historical aerial photographs in the country.

Shoreline aerial photos is a website belonging to the Washington state department of Ecology Shorelands program which specializes in reproducing high quality aerial photographs across New England and scenic tours of the beautiful Connecticut shoreline and river valley.

Then there are other excellent websites like OldAerialPhotos.com which is a UK based large online collection of historical aerial photographs. Hundreds and thousands of arial photographs are on offer, as digital scan or print, at the click of your mouse. Their collection is based on well known historic or independent archives dating from the 40's to the 90's.

Moreover, free aerial photographs are becoming widely available nowadays with the prevalence of satellite mapping. Google Earth, which offers free live aerial photos and recent aerial photos, enables you to fly to any spot on the earth, to view satellite pictures, terrain, maps, buildings in 3D, and you can even explore the galaxies in space. Rich geographical and historical content are freely available, and you can save the places you tour to share with others.

There are now a large number of aerial photography services offering stock aerial photography, in which you can get images from Alaska and Labrador to the Lesser Antilles and everything that lies in between. The large number categories include old aerial photos and historical aerial photographs.