BEV Flight Tracking Maps: Aerial Survey Coverage from 1949 to 2020

An archive of flight location maps from the BEV (Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen) aerial image collection, covering operations from 1949 to 2020. The maps show the position of flown flight strips and image center points for each operation. Essential flight information, such as archive number, date, focal length, and image scale, is included for each record.

Use Cases

• Locating historical aerial imagery for a specific area of interest based on flight strip positions.
• Analyzing the temporal coverage and frequency of aerial surveys over a region based on flight dates from 1949 to 2020.
• Planning new aerial surveys by studying past flight patterns and technical parameters like focal length and image scale.
• Creating metadata catalogs for aerial image archives using provided flight title, archive number, and film type information.

Strengths

• Covers a long temporal range of 71 years (1949-2020).
• Includes essential technical parameters for each flight, such as focal length, image scale, and film type.
• Provides geospatial data showing the precise location of flight strips and image center points.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Cooperation OGD Österreich, Wikimedia Österreich

Collection Method

Created per flight operation to document aerial survey missions.

Time Range

1949 to 2020