Vertical Aerial Photography
Vertical aerial photography is an airborne mapping technique, which uses a high-resolution camera mounted vertically underneath the aircraft to capture reflected light in the red, green, blue and for some datasets, near infra-red spectrum. Images of the ground are captured at resolutions between 10cm and 50cm, and ortho-rectified using simultaneous LIDAR and GPS to a high spatial accuracy. The Environment Agency has been capturing vertical aerial photography data regularly since 2006 on a project by project basis each ranging in coverage from a few square kilometers to hundreds of square kilometers. The 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. Where imagery has been captured under incident response conditions and the lighting conditions may be sub-optimal this is defined by the prefix IR. The data are presented as tiles in British National Grid OSGB 1936 projections. Data is available in 5km download zip files for each year of survey. Within each zip file are ECW files aligned to the Ordinance Survey grid. The size of each tile is dependent upon the spatial resolution of the data. Please refer to the metadata index catalgoues for the survey date captured, type of survey and spatial resolution of the imagery. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2022. All rights reserved.
dataset
https://environment.data.gov.uk/DefraDataDownload/?Mode=survey
protocol: http
name: Survey Data - Download
description: Download the survey data
https://environment.data.gov.uk/explore/dae203a8-ba24-4c54-bab0-866b9faadb58?download=true
protocol: http
name: Metadata Shapefile Index Catalogues - Download
description: Download the coverage metadata files
https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/survey-index-files/wms
protocol: http
name: Metadata Index Catalogues - WMS
description: Coverage metadata files - Web Map Service
https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/survey-index-files/wfs
protocol: http
name: Metadata Index Catalogues - WFS
description: Coverage metadata files - Web Feature Service
https://support.environment.data.gov.uk/space/DPK/15827049/Survey+Data+Catalogue
protocol: http
name: Survey Data FAQs
description: Survey Data FAQs
8a368a69-07b4-4136-846f-d85253d6b311
eng
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
environment
orthorectified colour data
imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
environment
Orthoimagery
publication
2008-06-01
aerial photography
publication
2010-01-13
aerial photography
publication
2010-01-13
remote sensing
publication
2010-01-13
flood
publication
2010-01-13
-5.7
1.8
55.8
50
2005-12-15
2023-05-19
creation
2009-01-01
revision
2023-12-15
biannually
Vertical aerial photography is an airborne mapping technique, which measures reflected light in the red, green, blue and near infra-red spectrum. Images of the ground are captured at resolutions between 10cm and 50cm, and ortho-rectified using simultaneous LIDAR and GPS to a high spatial accuracy.
Proprietary format | ER Mapper (ECW)
Not Applicable
Open Government Licence
There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
Environment Agency
DSPcustomerforum@environment-agency.gov.uk
https://environment.data.gov.uk/support
description: Defra Data Services Forum
pointOfContact
Environment Agency
DSPcustomerforum@environment-agency.gov.uk
pointOfContact
2023-12-16