The collection of aerial photographs held by the Australian Antarctic Data Centre

• Other Authors: Australian Antarctic Division (isOwnedBy)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: data.gov.au
• Subjects: AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; AIRCRAFT; AMD; AMD-AU; ANTARCTICA; CAMERA; CAPE DENISON; CEOS; CONTINENT - ANTARCTICA; Cameras; EARTH SCIENCE - SPECTRAL-ENGINEERING - VISIBLE WAVELENGTHS - VISIBLE IMAGERY; GEOGRAPHIC REGION - POLAR; HELICOPTER; HIGHJUMP; OCEAN - SOUTHERN OCEAN; ZEISS; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Heard Island; Vestfold Hills; Australian Antarctic Territory; Vestfold; Windmill Islands; Prince Charles Mountains; Larsemann Hills; Denison; Cape Denison; Mawson Coast; Antarc*; Antarctica; Australian Antarctic Division; Enderby Land; Macquarie Island
• Online Access: https://researchdata.edu.au/the-collection-aerial-data-centre/1434754; http://data.gov.au/dataset/8d1c5a7c-c508-4a96-97dc-ced0b29bad8e

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.\n\nThe Australian Antarctic Data Centre's collection of aerial photographs includes (but is not limited to) the following.\n\n1 Vertical and oblique aerial photography of the Australian Antarctic Territory coastline and some inland areas, acquired by the US Navy during Operation Highjump in 1946/47.\n\n2 Vertical and oblique aerial photography flown by National Mapping (now part of Geoscience Australia) during 1954 - 1965 from fixed wing aircraft, mainly using a K17 trimetrigon camera. From 1960 the vertical camera in the system was replaced with a Wild RC9. An Eagle V camera was also used in 1963. The photography was acquired along the Australian Antarctic Territory coastline and over the Prince Charles Mountains.\n\n3 Comprehensive and systematic coverages of the Prince Charles Mountains and Enderby Land flown by National Mapping from a fixed wing aircraft in the 1970s using a Wild RC 9 camera.\n\n4 Photography acquired since 1977 from helicopters using non-metric Hasselblad and Linhof cameras. This photography was acquired principally for life science research and was not intended to be used for mapping. The photography was acquired over Heard Island, Macquarie Island, the Larsemann Hills, the Windmill Islands, the Vestfold Hills and Mawson Coast.\n\n5 Photography acquired since 1992/93 by the Australian Antarctic Division and AUSLIG (now part of Geoscience Australia) from helicopters using a Zeiss UMK camera. It has been used to acquire photography for large scale mapping of the Australian Antarctic Territory, Heard Island and Macquarie Island.\n\n6 Photography acquired since 2000 by the Australian Antarctic Division from helicopters using a Wild RC8 camera. A revision of the guidelines for overflight heights over animal colonies required that animal census photography be done with a camera with a longer focal length than the ...