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Q: Aerial / Satellite Photos ( Answered 5 out of 5 stars,   1 Comment )
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Subject: Aerial / Satellite Photos
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: dellisny-ga
List Price: $10.00
Posted: 11 Feb 2003 06:23 PST
Expires: 13 Mar 2003 06:23 PST
Question ID: 159906
Is there a way to find recent aerial photos or satellite photos of a
particular block of Manhattan?  If they don't exist, is there a
service to request that such a photo is taken?
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Subject: Re: Aerial / Satellite Photos
Answered By: answerfinder-ga on 11 Feb 2003 08:15 PST
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
Dear dellisny-ga

You do not specify vertical or oblique so I have searched for both as
vertical photographs in areas of tall buildings have large areas of
shade which obscure features.

Satellite images:
Globe Explorer -Click on ‘Aerial Atlas’ (top left) On my Internet
Explorer the site did not display correctly unless I pressed F11 on my
keyboard to enlarge the viewing area (Press F11 to return it to
normal).
Type in address to view sample image before purchasing. Good
definition on the images I looked at.
http://www.globeexplorer.com/

Not tested as it requires registration
Space Imaging
http://carterraonline.spaceimaging.com/cgi-bin/Carterra/phtml/login.phtml

Aircraft images:
The library of Aerial Archives states "the archive also contains a
comprehensive collection of vertical New York City aerials including
aerial photos of Manhattan and the entire New York metropolitan area
both in color and black and white and Manhattan aerials in infrared
color for an entirely different look".
A small selection of these images are available for viewing on line;
for specific requests for aerials of Manhattan and other portions of
New York City contact them.
http://www.aerialarchives.com/Aerial-Photographs-of-Manhattan.htm

The following are stated to have photographs:
New York State Department of Transportation 
Aerial Photographs and Mapping Department 
1220 Washington Avenue, Building 4, Room 105 Albany, NY 12232 (518)
457-3555
9"x 9" black & white contact print $4/page plus $15 shipping and
handling fee

This site have a wide selection of oblique photographs:
http://www.skypic.com/newyork.htm#manh

These New York based companies take aerial photographs.
http://www.highwing.com
http://www.firstlightphotography.com/aerials.htm

Please ask for clarification of the research, or if the links do not
work, before rating the answer.

answerfinder-ga

Search strategy
Manhattan “aerial photographs”
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=manhattan+%22aerial+photographs%22&btnG=Google+Search
"new york" "aerial photographs"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22new+york%22+%22aerial+photographs%22
dellisny-ga rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars
Fast & accurate

Comments  
Subject: Re: Aerial / Satellite Photos
From: denco-ga on 11 Feb 2003 14:54 PST
 
You could try TerraServer at:

http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/

"TerraServer contains 3.3 tera-bytes of
high resolution USGS aerial imagery ..."

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