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Environment
Aerial photography
Oblique aerial photography and vertical aerial photography are airborne mapping techniques:
- oblique aerial photography uses a professional grade DSLR camera to capture images from the side of an aircraft
- vertical aerial photography uses a high-resolution camera mounted vertically underneath an aircraft to capture reflected light in the red, green, blue, and, for some datasets, near infra-red spectrum
The Environment Agency has been capturing oblique aerial photography since 2010 and vertical aerial photography since 2006. Oblique aerial photographic images are available as JPEG images. Each image contains metadata for a geo-referenced GPS coordinate of the plane during exposure in WGS1984 latitude, longitude. Vertical aerial photography 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. You can download aerial photography data in various formats including GDB, GeoJSON and GPKG.
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