Aerial photography
Maps and GIS has roughly 100,000 air photos of Greater Victoria, most of Vancouver Island, the Lower Mainland and the Queen Charlotte Islands. The photos, in colour and black and white, date from 1926 to 2005, and can be found in scales from 1:5,000 to 1:70,000.
- BC Imagery finder
- BC Digital image services
- British Columbia Basemap Online Store (Index for air photos, 1964 onwards only); Order BC air photos
- British Columbia government historic air photo index maps
- Use National Earth Observation data framework Catalogue to find federal airphoto numbers
- Canada federal government air photo index maps of historic air photos in the University of Victoria Map Library (1926-1980)
UVic Libraries Digital airphoto collection
- small collection of digital air photos; high-resolution images are available only to UVic staff and students.
Greater Victoria
- Capital Region District atlas includes orthophotos of Greater Victoria and the Gulf Islands
Satellite, air photo and other remote sensing images and data world
- Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
- Earth Explorer
- ESRI Change matters
- Visible Earth (NASA) - directory of images, visualizations and animations of the Earth
- JSC Digital Image Collection (NASA)
- NASA Image Exchange
- Global Land Cover Facility (U. of Maryland)
For more information,
Contact Maps and GIS at 250-721-7356, or
Maps and GIS librarian Daniel Brendle-Moczuk at 250-853-3619.