Dataset guide · 地理遥感与城市

Vertical Aerial Photography

Vertical aerial photography captured regularly by the UK Environment Agency since 2006, with resolutions of 10-50cm, available in RGB, NIR and 4-band ECW formats.

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Key facts

InstitutionEnvironment Agency
CoverageUnited Kingdom (tiled in British National Grid OSGB 1936)
Time spanSince 2006, updated annually
Scale9 files (ZIP, GeoJSON, GPKG, SHP, etc.)
License© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2022. All rights reserved.
AccessDirect download from data.gov.uk and Defra Data Services Platform

Contents & fields

This dataset contains vertical aerial photography imagery captured by the UK Environment Agency since 2006, provided as ECW raster data in true colour (RGB), near-infrared (NIR) or 4-band (RGBN), with spatial resolution 10-50cm, ortho-rectified, projected in British National Grid OSGB 1936. Data are organised by year in 5km download ZIP files, each containing ECW tiles aligned to the Ordnance Survey grid. Also available are metadata index catalogues in GeoJSON, GPKG, SHP formats. No field-level description is provided on the source page.

Research uses

Suitable for environmental monitoring, flood assessment, land use classification, remote sensing analysis, and geospatial mapping.

This card was drafted from the source page; institution, coverage, time span, scale, fields and license are subject to the official page (pending human review).

Keywords

vertical aerial photographyEnvironment AgencyorthoimageryECWBritish National Gridremote sensing

Access & license

License: License pending verification | Free to access

Why this is hard to get on your own

When obtaining UK high-resolution aerial imagery, one often needs to know resolution, bands, projection and tiling; this dataset provides clear documentation.

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