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Aerial photography
LPMA takes colour aerial photographs cyclically of the whole of NSW and makes the images available online for viewing.
The aerial photographs are rich in content capturing features such as roads, property boundaries, crop plantings, windbreaks, creeks, dams and buildings.
To ensure NSW's aerial photographic coverage is up-to-date LPMA produces around 12,000 new photos annually, on an approximate five year cycle to photograph the entire State.
LPMA also carries out aerial photography for special purposes such as flood, bushfire and other emergency event mapping.
The photgraphs are used by government, business and the community in a wide variety of applications including:
- emergency services
- farm and land management
- environmental monitoring
- soil conservation
- civil engineering projects
- site and feature identification and
- comparison of current and historical information (archival records date back to the late 1950s).
This detailed topographic information captured by the photograph is also turned into digital datasets and mapping products available from LPMA.
You can view aerial images online at our AirView site and then download an order form for a contact print or an enlargement. Each order is processed on receipt via fax or mail to our Bathurst office. Should you have problems viewing maps at the AirView site, you may need to down load a Java Runtime Environment as your operating system may no longer support Java Applets
For more information contact us by phone on T: 02 6332 8123 or fax on F: 02 6332 8299 or use map sales enquiry form.
Orthorectified Imagery (OrthoView)
LPMA also produces a series of orthorectified aerial photographs for NSW called OrthoView.
The OrthoView product combines the image characteristics of a photograph with the geometric qualities of a map.
The orthorectification process removes the scale distortion within the photograph, and georeferences the image with coordinate vales. The finished product is a spatially accurate image with planimetric features represented in their true geographic position.
Areas covered to date include Hastings, Sydney, Newcastle, Wollongong, Katoomba, Bega and Kosciuszko and our aim is to produce orthorectified images for the entire State by 2008.
Orthorectified imagery is stored as a 10km x 10km modules and as a 50km x 50km modules, each given a unique identifier. An index depicts available modules.
For more information phone our Bathurst office on T: 02 6332 8200.
