Historical Aerial Photography for the UK and France

UK coverage at 50cm to 1m resolution for various dates from the 1930s onwards including UK-wide post war surveys from 1946 to 1952, city, county and district wide databases with a variety of film and print archives also available. Small areas of France were also covered. Sources include R.A.F., U.S.A.F. and Luftwaffe. The data were acquired by the Landmap project from The GeoInformation Group's (TGG) Cities Revealed project. Created from original film where possible, sourced from several archives, this database represents the very best of RAF, Luftwaffe and USAF aerial photography flown during 1939 to 1952. Images were then mosaiced together to produce regional coverage for various areas. Close inspection of some of the images will show where the images were created using printed images as printed annotations are visible. While in other cases prints are visible on the margins of the original film shown. The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) funded Landmap service which ran from 2001 to July 2014 collected and hosted a large amount of earth observation data for the majority of the UK. After removal of JISC funding in 2013, the Landmap service is no longer operational, with the data now held at the NEODC.



When using these data please also add the following copyright statement: Cities Revealed © The GeoInformation Group yyyy

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Date (Publication)
2014-08-01T11:31:31
Date (Creation)
2014-08-01T11:31:31
Citation identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/3bd036bf5e877dcd3666eee55be70960
Citation identifier
NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) / 3bd036bf5e877dcd3666eee55be70960
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Landmap

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The GeoInformation Group (TGG)

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NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)

neodc@rl.ac.uk

Custodian

NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)

neodc@rl.ac.uk

Distributor

NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)

neodc@rl.ac.uk

pointofContact

NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)

neodc@rl.ac.uk

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Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
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  • orthoimagery
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Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/landmap.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under academic and specific use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
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Language
English
Topic category
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
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Begin date
1930-01-01T00:00:00
End date
1952-12-31T00:00:00
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
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Data are available in ecw (Enhanced Compression Wavelet) and MrSID (Multiresolution Seamless Image Database) formats which can both be opened with most image viewing/editing or GIS software such as such as Erdas ER viewer. Both formats are ultimately compressed images however the MrSID (Multiresolution Seamless Image Database) format (.sid extension) allows large compressed raster image files (such as aerial photographs or satellite imagery) to be quickly viewed without having to decompress the entire file. The data are archived in the directory structure of country/region_year/format/data for ease of use. Metadata containing location and other information (.ers, .sdw and .xml files) are included with their respective data files.

Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)

neodc@rl.ac.uk

Distributor
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/3bd036bf5e877dcd3666eee55be70960

CEDA Data Catalogue Page
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/landmap/data/optical/h_ap

DOWNLOAD
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://www.geoinformationgroup.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/historicproductsheet.pdf

The GeoInformation Group Cities Revealed historical aerial photography product sheet
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://www.geoinformationgroup.co.uk/

The GeoInformation Group website
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://www.neodc.rl.ac.uk/conditions/landmap.html

Landmap terms of use
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://www.hexagongeospatial.com/products/remote-sensing/erdas-er-viewer

Erdas ER Viewer
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Dataset

Conformance result

Title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement

Data collected and prepared by the Landmap team before a copy of the data were obtained by NEODC directly from Landmap.

Metadata

File identifier
3bd036bf5e877dcd3666eee55be70960 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Parent identifier
Landmap: Optical Earth Observation Collection

b918b02c3c2c55391f51e8465bd7621f
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-11-17T03:02:57
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3
Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)

neodc@rl.ac.uk

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

orthoimagery


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