Questions tagged [historical-imagery]
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How to see historical imagery from Google Earth Tiled Internet Layer in ArcGIS Pro?
The url for the data source is http://mt0.google.com/vt/lyrs=s&hl=en&x={x}&y={y}&z={z} Here is the setup in ArcGIS Pro:
When I open Google Earth Pro, I can browse through historical ...
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What is the resolution of the best publicily available satellite images from the 1970s and 1980s, for the southern hemisphere?
What motivates the question is a neighborhood disagreement involving my parents, that developed as follows:
Dad bought a house in early 70s, moved there. The house was adjacent to a vacant lot, used ...
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Export distortion grid and displacement vectors from MapAnalyst and use them in QGIS: incorrect projection
I use MapAnalyst, a FOSS tool for the accuracy analysis of old maps. The tool creates, between else, Distortion Grids and Displacement Vectors/Circles (see screenshot). These can be exported as ...
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How feasible is it to scan CORONA satellite imagery in the National Archives?
I'm building a dataset of several hundred historical CORONA satellite images for a research project. I know that one can request these images from the US Geological Survey, but new scans cost $30 ...
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How to extract elevation data from historical imagery in Google Earth?
I am trying to estimate landslide debris volume. The commonly used technique is to create a pre-event DEM and a Post-event DEM, and subtract them. This process involves buying stereopair imagery and ...
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Displaying Google Earth Historical Imagery in QGIS
I am currently carrying out research aimed at showing the evolution of plant cover in urban areas. I opted for the calculation of the vegetation index from Sentinel2 type images that I would like to ...
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Performing supervised classification on old aerial imagery taken in 1950s
I am working on a project to track the expansion of the city's built area in the last 70-80 years, and I have to deal with scanned images taken before satellites were first used, and I can't seem to ...
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Uploading older Google Earth Historical Imagery into QGIS
There are numerous ways to import Google Earth imagery into the QGIS (e.g. OpenLayer plug-in or XYZ tiles), however the recent-most images are downloaded. Is there any way to import historical imagery?...
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Interpreting Historical Aerial Imagery - Agricultural Midwest [closed]
I was recently looking at some aerial imagery of a Midwest farm and wondering how to interpret a couple things. First, in the 1938 imagery, there are several fields that appear to have weird ...
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Mass downloading Google Earth historical imagery
I've been working with the historical imagery in Google Earth and I'm wondering if there's an easy way to download the geoTIFFs for my study area. It doesn't seem possible from Google Earth itself.
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Converting historic map data (raster) into polygon format? [closed]
How do I convert historical buildings from map data (raster) into a polygon format?
The historic maps that I am referencing are the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps. Here is the link to an example in case ...
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Are Google satellite images precise enough for georeferencing?
I need to georeference historical aerial images (from 1976). There is no metadata, e.g. reference system, available. I thought I could use Google satellite to set ground control points for ...
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What does this mean is that my agisoft PhotoScan does not understand Unsupported JPEG data precision 12 error?
I want to see if anyone in here know what the problem is. When I load this imagery to my ERDAS it was able to read it and open it...
However, my agisoft PhotoScan would not load it since there is ...
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Integrating Google Earth historical imagery within Google Earth Engine
I'm planning on doing a high res. land cover classification of Southeast Asia for the last 20 years. I'd like to use Google Earth Engine Code Editor for the easy-access to Landsat data/ability to ...
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What is the official term for Photo Index?
I have a point shapefile that has all the aerial photos that were flown on our forest. However, they are very old and are black and white. They were scanned by our contractor. Their years are dated ...
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Exporting many TIFFs issues in ERDAS Imagine 2016?
I have been having an issue with exporting TIFFs on my ERDAS Imagine 2016. The version is 16.00.0000 Build 650. When I need to run a batch to export many TIFFs and it would export one but then it ...
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Processing historic aerial imagery mosaics
I'd like to process multiple sets of old (>1938) aerial imagery that are scanned, but whether merged nor georeferenced. While I had good results with QGIS to align single photos, using passpoints, ...
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Calculating Datum Corrections to Overlay pre-NAD27 USGS Maps?
I am working with some older (ca. 1900) USGS Topographic Maps. These Raster maps are georeferenced with a CRS of NAD27 and poly projection (polyconic). However, they are offset and require easting/...
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Field sampling design: stratified random or transect?
I am trying to understand the impact of scientific activity in a remote polar environment.
I have five locations in different parts of the region, where historic huts were placed for a couple of ...
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Performing aerial triangulation on scanned aerial photos without having surveyed ground control points (GCPs)?
I have a set of 1200 historical aerial photos covering North Carolina outer banks area from 1974, 1984 and 1992. I need to georeference them and produce seamless color balanced dataset that will be ...
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Historical aerial imagery GoogleEarth (2014) use in ArcGIS for Central Europe?
I run the supervised classification of Landsat scene from 2014 to identify forest disturbances.
I would like to assess the accuracy of my classification through visual identification of stratified ...
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Loading Historical Google Satellite Imagery with QGIS QuickMapServices plugin?
Loading older google satellite image with OpenLayers plugin in QGIS? is a similar question that was asked 4 years ago.
Is QGIS QuickMapServices able to load Google Earth's (aka Google Satellite's) ...
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Loading older google satellite image with OpenLayers plugin in QGIS?
I am using the OpenLayers plugin in QGIS. I want to use the google satellite layer, but there is a cloud on the specific image.
Is it possible to load one of the older google satellite images?
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