PHOTO RESEARCH

 

 

Current and historical aerial photography can be obtained by Aero-Data through both our in-house film library and outside vendors. With numerous business contacts and years of professional experience, Aero-Data has the ability to use a nationwide network of aerial photography providers to find the coverage you need. For historical studies, please keep in mind that Aero-Data's photo laboratory can produce uniformly cropped and scaled prints for a site with multiple dates of coverage. This is helpful to our clients because it presents the same coverage area for each date of photography at a uniform scale. Our in-house photo lab services also ensure our clients' confidentiality.

 

 

In-House Coverage

In the course of its many contract photomissions, and through acquisition of governmental coverage, Aero-Data has amassed an extensive film library of both historical and current aerial photography of sites throughout the United States. Our Louisiana aerial coverage, for example, encompasses many parishes and significant portions of the Mississippi River Industrial corridor over time. Our database system allows us to quickly locate film in our library and determine if further research is required. Requests for in-house film coverage can be cropped, scaled to meet the client's specific needs, printed, and shipped out rapidly.

Click HERE for a map of our in-house coverage areas.


Outside Vendors

If outside research is necessary, our staff will contact various aerial photography vendors to acquire a range of current or historical aerial photographs and maps. Our research staff maintains a database of over 1,000 private and governmental aerial providers who can be contacted for photography. Aero-Data has also acquired microfiche indexes of the USGS film collection. This resource reduces research time and increases the accuracy of frame selection. Aero-Data generally uses governmental providers such as U.S Geologic Survery, American Soil and Conservation Services, National Archives, and Corps of Engineers.