Styria Orthophotos from 1994-2001 Aerial Flights

Digital black and white orthophotos covering the entire Austrian state of Styria. The imagery has a 50 cm ground resolution and was captured during aerial flight campaigns between 1994 and 2001. The dataset is provided by Cooperation OGD Österreich and Wikimedia Österreich under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze historical land cover changes based on the 50 cm resolution imagery.
• Create or update historical basemaps for Styria based on the aerial orthophotos.
• Monitor urban development and infrastructure changes over the 1994-2001 period.
• Support environmental and agricultural studies using the georeferenced image data.

Strengths

• Covers the entire state of Styria, providing complete spatial coverage.
• Imagery has a consistent 50 cm ground resolution.
• Data spans a multi-year period from 1994 to 2001, enabling temporal analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Cooperation OGD Österreich, Wikimedia Österreich

Collection Method

Aerial photography flights.

Time Range

1994 - 2001

Geography

Styria, Austria