USGS Releases New Digital Aerial Products
Fact Sheet
2005-3074
By: Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey
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Abstract
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) has initiated distribution of digital aerial photographic products produced by scanning or digitizing film from its historical aerial photography film archive. This archive, located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, contains thousands of rolls of film that contain more than 8 million frames of historic aerial photographs. The largest portion of this archive consists of original film acquired by Federal agencies from the 1930s through the 1970s to produce 1:24,000-scale USGS topographic quadrangle maps. Most of this photography is reasonably large scale (USGS photography ranges from 1:8,000 to 1:80,000) to support the production of the maps.
Two digital products are currently available for ordering: high-resolution scanned products and medium-resolution digitized products.
| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Title | USGS Releases New Digital Aerial Products |
| Series title | Fact Sheet |
| Series number | 2005-3074 |
| DOI | 10.3133/fs20053074 |
| Edition | - |
| Year Published | 2005 |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Publisher | Geological Survey (U.S.) |
| Contributing office(s) | Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center |
| Description | 2 p. |
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