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Historical orthophotos 1940s
Orthophotos are aerial photographs that have been geometrically corrected (orthorectified) to eliminate distortions caused by terrain relief, lens distortion, and camera tilt. Unlike raw aerial imagery, orthophotos have a uniform scale and accurate geometry, making them suitable for cartography, measurements, and visual analysis.
This specific dataset includes historical orthophotos from 1947 and 1948, derived from aerial surveys carried out by the National Geographic Institute (NGI). During this period, only analogue aerial photographs are available. The analogue images were scanned at high resolution and orthorectified. The resulting orthophotos were assembled into mosaics and georeferenced in the Lambert 2008 coordinate system.
All orthophotos are panchromatic (black and white). The ground resolution (GSD) is 50 cm.
Simple
- Date (Creation)
- 1947-01-01
- Date (Publication)
- 2026-03-11
- Identifier
- BE.NGI-IGN / c3594ed1-1d4c-11f1-856c-20c19bc9b64c
- Status
- Completed
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Keywords
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- historical orthophotos, aerial photographs, 1947, 1948, panchromatic, black and white, 50 cm resolution
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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•The custodian of the resource holds the rights of property (including the rights of intellectual property) to the geographic files
•The custodian grants the user the right to use the data for his internal use.
•Commercial use of the data under any form is strictly forbidden
•Custodian’s name must be mentioned each time the data are being used publically.
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations on public access
- Use limitation
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•The custodian of the resource holds the rights of property (including the rights of intellectual property) to the geographic files
•The custodian grants the user the right to use the data for his internal use.
•Commercial use of the data under any form is strictly forbidden
•Custodian’s name must be mentioned each time the data are being used publically.
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Distance
- 50 cm
- Metadata language
- Français
- Character set
- 8859 Part 15
- Description
- Belgium
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- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:3812
- Distribution format
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TIFF
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TIFF
()
- OnLine resource
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Download service
(
OGC:WFS
)
Download service
- OnLine resource
- https://ngi.be/aanbod/kaarten-en-fotos/luchtfotos-orthofotos/ ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
- OnLine resource
-
View service
(
OGC:WMS
)
View service
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Domain consistency
- Name of measure
- INSPIRE Conformity
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
- The dataset’s compliance with the technical requirements as defined by the Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 has not been checked
- Statement
- A compléter
- File identifier
- c3594ed1-1d4c-11f1-856c-20c19bc9b64c XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-03-11T15:47:37
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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