From early September to mid-October of 2005 Aerodata International Surveys recorded digital aerial photos of the Netherlands on their own initiative. The imagery was completely acquired with the company?s 90 megapixel UltraCam-D large format digital frame camera, mounted in their fast Fairchild Merlin survey aircraft.
This project is unprecedented in the Netherlands, since it is the first time aerial photos of the entire country have been acquired completely digitally. The 3 months that followed the aerial data acquisition of the 7000 images have now led to one large (850GB) seamless colour aerial photo mosaic with 40cm resolution. It is now the most recent and most detailed country-wide snapshot of the Netherlands.
The use of UltraCam-D digital camera has led to remarkable improvements of the final product, particularly for image purity, clarity, contrast and visibility of details in shadowed areas.
With this product Aerodata has set a new standard for country-wide digital ortho photo databases.
The complete dataset or parts of it are currently being delivered to customers under the brand name aeroGRID NL2005. Later this year Aerodata will make the dataset available on the internet.
About Aerodata:
Aerodata Int. Surveys is an innovative and hands-on airborne surveying and mapping company located at Antwerp Airport, Belgium and is specialized international aerial photo projects, laser altimetry, digital ortho photography, GIS and remote sensing.
Early 2004 Aerodata was the first European company to acquire a Vexcel UltraCam-D digital photogrammetric frame camera and during over season 2005 over 70,000 exposures were collected.
Major UltraCam projects of 2005 include the entire Dutch province of Zeeland (3,000 sq.km) at 7.5 and 15cm GSD, the German state of Saxony (12,000 sq.km) at 20cm GSD and the entire territory of the Netherlands (40,000 sq.km) at 40cm GSD.
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