Fact Sheet 2005–3074
Summary -or- AbstractThe 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. |
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U.S. Geological Survey, 2005, USGS releases new digital aerial products: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2005–3074, 2 p., available only online at https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2005/3074/.