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The collection of aerial photographs held by the Australian Antarctic Data Centre
Entry ID: aerial_photo_gis

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Summary
Abstract: Aerial photography has been an important means of acquiring spatial data in Antarctica and the subantarctic islands, though satellite imagery is playing an increasingly important role.

The Australian Antarctic Data Centre's collection of aerial photographs includes (but is not limited to) the following.

1 Vertical and oblique aerial photography of the Australian Antarctic Territory coastline and ... View entire text
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Description: Download flight lines and photo centres
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Geographic Coverage
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Spatial coordinates   
  N: -52.9   S: -74.9   E: 167.52   W: 49.13

Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 1947-01-01
Location Keywords
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Platform
AIRCRAFT Ancillary Description
HELICOPTER Ancillary Description
Instrument
CAMERAS Ancillary Description
Quality Some aerial photography flight lines have been digitised off flight line diagrams formerly held by AUSLIG (now Geoscience Australia). Transcription and digitising of photo centres onto maps and from digital log files was acquired at the time of the photography.
Those flight lines digitised off flight line diagrams have widely varying spatial accuracy, as the majority of the ... View entire text
Access Constraints The flight lines and photo centres are available for download as shapefiles stored in geographicals. Refer to url below.
Use Constraints This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=aerial_p... when using these data.
Ancillary Keywords
Data Set Progress
COMPLETE
Data Center
Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia Supplemental Info
Data Center URL: http://data.aad.gov.au

Data Center Personnel
Name: DATA OFFICER AADC
Phone: +61 3 6232 3244
Fax: +61 3 6232 3351
Email: metadata at aad.gov.au
Contact Address:
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
City: Kingston
Province or State: Tasmania
Postal Code: 7050
Country: Australia
Distribution
Distribution Media: HTTP
Distribution Size: 1.3 MB
Distribution Format: shapefile
Fees: free

Distribution Media: HTTP
Distribution Size: 146.9 MB
Distribution Format: images
Fees: free
Personnel
URSULA HARRIS
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Phone: +61 3 6232 3519
Fax: +61 3 6232 3351
Email: metadata at aad.gov.au
Contact Address:
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
City: Kingston
Province or State: Tasmania
Postal Code: 7050
Country: Australia
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Publications/References
Developing ARAMIS* to a multi-user search, query and retrieval system of digital spatial data used in the Australian Antarctic Program.
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2000-03-03
Last DIF Revision Date: 2011-04-15

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