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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.)
LicenseTerms: check the source page
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.

Information comes from the source page. Please check that page for current details and terms.

Keywords

vertical aerial photographyEnvironment AgencyorthoimageryECWBritish National Gridremote sensing

Access & license

License: Terms: check the source page | 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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