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Historical aerial photos

This dataset consists of historical aerial imagery (1947-2007) commissioned by the National Geographic Institute. It includes the spatial footprints and metadata of individual photographs as well as the corresponding flight paths of the aircraft used during image acquisition.

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Date (Creation)
1947-01-01
Date (Publication)
2026-03-27
Identifier
BE.NGI-IGN / 767b77ef-6dea-11f0-8b0a-00be433d8c24
Status
Completed
Custodian
  National Geographic Institute - Joachim Rymenants
Kortenberglaan 115 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://ngi.be/
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Orthoimagery
Belgian Federal Thesaurus
  • Federal viewer
  • Aerial photographs and orthophotographs
Data.gov.be themes
  • Science and technology
INSPIRE feature concept dictionary
  • Orthoimage Coverage
GEMET - Concept themes, version 4.01
  • federal government
  • aerial photograph
  • Orthoimagery
Spatial scope
  • National
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

•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

•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
Metadata language
English
Character set
8859 Part 15
Description
Belgium
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Unique resource identifier
EPSG:3812
Distribution format
  • Esri Shapefile ( 10.2 )

OnLine resource
Direct download of resource ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Direct download of resource

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
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.
File identifier
767b77ef-6dea-11f0-8b0a-00be433d8c24 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2026-03-28T01:06:46
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  National Geographic Institute - Floor Van Damme
Kortenberglaan 115 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://ngi.be/
 
 

Overviews

overview

Spatial extent

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Keywords

Belgian Federal Thesaurus
Aerial photographs and orthophotographs Federal viewer
Data.gov.be themes
Science and technology
GEMET - Concept themes, version 4.01
Orthoimagery aerial photograph federal government
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Orthoimagery
INSPIRE feature concept dictionary
Orthoimage Coverage
Spatial scope
National

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