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A Rich Archive Historical Imagery dating back to 1928
During recent conversations, Dr Martin Wood, Curator of Maps at the National Library of Australia has highlighted the existence of a rich archive of historical imagery dating back 70 years to 1928. This imagery covers parts of Australia, New Guinea and Antarctica.
Much of this imagery has been used to produce historical mapping.
It is currently in hardcopy formats.
A report describing the holdings may be found here.
Potential for rich digital data sets to support spatial analysis
This data is invaluable for current and future spatial analysis that requires a multi-temporal understanding of our environment.
Ideally, for maximum ongoing benefit to be derived from this data from now into the future, the imagery would need to be:
- scanned at an appropriate high resolution;
- orthorectified;
- stored in an open format;
- made available via a Creative Commons license; and
- made available free of charge.
An example of how this type of data is being handled internationally (National Library of Scotland) has been provided by Martin Woods.
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