Aerial PhotographsHOME / PICTURES / AERIAL PHOTOS / About Aerial Photographs  OUR AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY WAS TAKEN by the Department of Agriculture and Forestry as part of the 2000/02 Corporate Land Use Inventory Project. The copyright of the images is retained by the Province of Prince Edward Island. The original images were taken during July and August 2000 at a
scale of 1/17,500 scale using false colour infrared film.
These images were scanned from the film negatives at a
resolution of 40 microns and then electronically resampled to
80 microns. The individual pixels of the images represent 1.4
metres square on the ground. (The original electronic files
were 32 megabytes and the resampled images are 8 megabytes.
The version of the images presented here have been converted to
JPEG format and reduced in size by 25%.)The film negatives for the 2000 set, as well as for
1974 and 1990, are stored at Service Nova Scotia and
Municipal Relations, Nova Scotia Geomatics Centre, 160
Willow Street, Amherst, Nova Scotia, B4H 3W5 and
conventional aerial photography prints in false colour or
black and white are available from this agency.Electronic versions of the images on CD-ROM are available
from the Forestry and Land Resource Modeling, Natural
Resource Division, Department of Agriculture and
Forestry, P.O. Box 2000, Charlottetown, P.E.I., CIA 7N8.
There are 34 cds for full coverage of the Province. The
price of each CD is $25. | ||||||
