Swiss Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo)

swisstopo Historical Aerial Photographs

OpenL1Raw sensor dataPassive optical imaging

Archive aerial photographs of Switzerland from 1921 to 2010 in black and white, colour and infrared, with the footprint of each frame.

Aircraft

Best GSD

50 cm

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Latency

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Scenes & acquisition

Finding scenes…simulated · tf:synthetic

Next passes over this AOI

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Propagating orbits…

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Area of interest

≈ 0 km²

Access endpoints

stac-api
https://data.geo.admin.ch/api/stac/v1
ch.swisstopo.lubis-luftbilder_schwarzweiss · Swiss federal geodata STAC API (data.geo.admin.ch); swisstopo open-government-data terms, attribution required
stac-api
https://data.geo.admin.ch/api/stac/v1
ch.swisstopo.lubis-luftbilder_farbe · Swiss federal geodata STAC API (data.geo.admin.ch); swisstopo open-government-data terms, attribution required
stac-api
https://data.geo.admin.ch/api/stac/v1
ch.swisstopo.lubis-luftbilder_infrarot · Swiss federal geodata STAC API (data.geo.admin.ch); swisstopo open-government-data terms, attribution required

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Machine view

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swisstopo Historical Aerial Photographs

Scenes & acquisition

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