geo.be Metadata Catalog
Aerial photo collection NGI
This dataset contains the spatial metadata of the complete collection of aerial photos of the National Geographic Institute (NGI), from 1946 to today. The aerial photos themselves are not part of the dataset. The collection comprises more than 100,000 aerial photos. The images are predominantly panchromatic (black and white). From the late 1970s onwards, colour images were also taken, and from the end of 2004 onwards all images were taken in colour. The analogue aerial photos in the collection were scanned in high resolution. More recent aerial photos were captured directly in digital format. This specific dataset includes three layers: the centroids (centre points) of the individual aerial photos, the footprints (the outlines of the area on the ground covered by each photo), and the flight paths of the aircraft used during image acquisition. For each aerial photo, all known metadata is included in the attribute table, such as the acquisition date, the flight and the strip, the dimensions, the scale, the ground resolution, the radiometry (black and white or colour), the coordinates of the centre point, and the camera, lens and film used. This data makes it possible to find out which aerial photos are available for a given location and period, and what the characteristics of each photo are. The data can be consulted via the associated web service (WFS). The aerial photos can be ordered in high resolution via https://shop.ngi.be/nl/luchtfotos/.
Simple
- Date (Creation)
- 1947-01-01
- Date (Publication)
- 2026-03-27
- Citation identifier
- BE.NGI-IGN / 767b77ef-6dea-11f0-8b0a-00be433d8c24
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role National Geographic Institute
Anke Bracke
Custodian
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- 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
- Vector
- Language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 15
- Description
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Belgium
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- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:3812
- Distribution format
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Name Version Esri Shapefile 10.2
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://ngi.be/aanbod/kaarten-en-fotos/luchtfotos-orthofotos/ https://ngi.be/aanbod/kaarten-en-fotos/luchtfotos-orthofotos/
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Domain consistency
- Name of measure
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INSPIRE Conformity
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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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
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This dataset was produced through the triangulation of stereographic aerial photographs. The images were captured from low-altitude aircraft and commissioned by the National Geographic Institute of Belgium. The flight paths were reconstructed by connecting the centroids of images from the same flight with the same strip ID in ascending order of image ID.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 767b77ef-6dea-11f0-8b0a-00be433d8c24 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-08-26T11:41:37
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role National Geographic Institute
Floor Van Damme
Point of contact
- Other language
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Language Character encoding French Dutch; Flemish German English UTF8
