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NASA Aerial Photography

Metadata Updated: April 10, 2025

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Aerial Photography data set is a film archive of photographs from the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas, and the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. In 1965, the JSC initiated the Earth Resources Aircraft Program and began flying photographic missions for Federal Government agencies and other entities involved in remote sensing experiments. Beginning in 1966, NASA conducted an Earth Observations Program, including Earth surveys using aircraft platforms.

  Photographs from a variety of NASA programs provide project-specific coverage
  over the United States, Grand Bahama, Jamaica, and Central America at base
  scales ranging from 1:16,000 scale to 1:450,000 scale.  Film types, scales,
  acquisition schedules, flight altitudes, and end products differ, according to
  project requirements.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date April 10, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date April 10, 2025
Publisher DOI/USGS/EROS
Maintainer
Identifier C1220566083-USGS_LTA
Data First Published 1969-07-16
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2025-03-31
Category geospatial
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 026:00
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 6d477744-61e4-4970-a5dc-9c2113c58b0c
Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
Homepage URL https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov:443/search/concepts/C1220566083-USGS_LTA.html
Metadata Type geospatial
Old Spatial -180.0 24.0 -60.0 72.0
Program Code 026:001
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash ea5b16fc6bf7eb61b34d805f14c199034e8c90f618a80b67f000bd7f88375da7
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal 1969-07-16T00:00:00Z/2022-01-17T00:00:00Z

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