Oblique Aerial Photography
Oblique aerial photography is an airborne mapping technique, which uses a professional grade DSLR camera to capture images out the side of our aircraft. Images are geo-referenced using our GPS systems to provide the position of the plane for each image. The Environment Agency has been capturing oblique aerial photography during incident response since 2010, and for bespoke surveys such as cliff line monitoring. Images can be captured in all survey conditions which can have a large influence on the quality of the imagery. The photography is supplied as a JPEG image. Contained within the EXIF metadata for each image is a geo-referenced GPS coordinate of the plane during exposure. These coordinates are in WGS1984 latitude, longitude. Data is available in 5km download zip files for each type and year of survey. The 'types' of survey available are 'Incident Response' (data captured in varying lighting conditions usually for assessment of flood extent) and 'Other' (bespoke monitoring surveys such as cliff line assessments) Within each downloaded zip file are geotagged JPEG images. Catalogue shapefiles showing the location of the plane for each individual image are available via the resource locator link below. The catalogue shapefiles contain metadata for each image including the start and and date flown of a survey and the 'image view angle'. All images are captured out the left hand side of the plane. The image view angle is an approximate direction the camera was pointing for each image. To find out more about LIDAR and the various surface models we produce please read our story map To find out more about Aerial Photography and how we produce it please read our story map This metadata record is for Approval for Access product AfA462. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2019. All rights reserved. Attribution statement: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2019. All rights reserved.
dataset
https://environment.data.gov.uk/DefraDataDownload/?Mode=survey
protocol: DSP:ESRI
name: Survey_Download
description: Survey Download
https://environment.data.gov.uk/DefraDataDownload/?mapService=EA/SurveyIndexFiles&Mode=spatial
protocol: DSP:ESRI
name: Metadata Shapefile Index Catalogues - Download
description: Download the coverage metadata files
https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/survey-index-files/wms
protocol: OGC:WMS
name: Metadata Index Catalogues - WMS
description: Coverage metadata files - Web Map Service
https://environment.data.gov.uk/spatialdata/survey-index-files/wfs
protocol: OGC:WFS
name: Metadata Index Catalogues - WFS
description: Coverage metadata files - Web Feature Service
https://support.environment.data.gov.uk/hc/en-gb/sections/360001747351-Survey-Data-Catalogue
protocol: http:
name: Survey_Data_FAQs
description: Survey Data Catalogue FAQs
8a368a69-07b4-4136-846f-d85253d6b311
eng
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
environment
imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
OpenData
Mapping
Aerial Photography
mapping
remote sensing
flood
aerial photography
publication
2010-01-13
-5.7
1.8
55.8
50
http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/country/england
2011-08-09
2018-04-05
creation
2011-08-09
revision
2017-11-20
biannually
The photography is supplied as a JPEG image. Contained within the EXIF metadata for each image is a geo-referenced GPS coordinate of the plane during exposure. These coordinates are in WGS1984 latitude, longitude.
Open format | Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG)
Not Applicable
Open Government Licence
There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
Environment Agency
DSPcustomerforum@environment-agency.gov.uk
https://support.environment.data.gov.uk/hc/en-gb
description: Defra Data Services Forum
pointOfContact
Environment Agency
metadata@environment-agency.gov.uk
pointOfContact
2020-03-19