05-02-2008, 12:47 PM
Unfortunately many of these aerial photography archives are modern images taken from very high up & vertical.
There was a great deal of work done however by DN Riley & JK St Joseph since the last war, taken from (often dangerously) low levels offering oblique images, which are the best for defining features from crops & shadows.
I know that many St Joseph's photos are in a collection at Cambridge Univ. & much of Riley's collection is lodged at South Yorkshire HER (was the SMR). These are however in a manual archive/files accessible by arrangement (or they were when I used them).
There was a great deal of work done however by DN Riley & JK St Joseph since the last war, taken from (often dangerously) low levels offering oblique images, which are the best for defining features from crops & shadows.
I know that many St Joseph's photos are in a collection at Cambridge Univ. & much of Riley's collection is lodged at South Yorkshire HER (was the SMR). These are however in a manual archive/files accessible by arrangement (or they were when I used them).