Opening a treasure trove: The Historical Aerial Photography project

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Geoscience Australia curates ~1 million historical aerial photos, about 280,000 images digitised so far but only ~20% fully scanned; flight-line diagrams live in a ~50,000-row spreadsheet and are ~90% digitised. A PfOD/Data61 project builds a canonical metadata repository and a STAC-influenced GeoJSON REST API backed by Postgres/PostGIS + Django REST, serving stitched mosaics and 3D elevation models from 60–70% overlap frames. Scans and diagrams are released under Creative Commons BY; film scanning still needs funding.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:15Historical aerial photography
3. 3:43Historical data archive
4. 7:22Flight line diagrams
5. 10:32Digitalisation
6. 14:20Other jurisdictions
7. 15:47Open data open standards
8. 19:35Spatiotemporal search
9. 21:35Whats next
10. 22:44Demo
11. 30:43Questions

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