Aerial photos for nav?? availability

[Desert Fox]

Hi,
I often see many opportunities for aerials pictures for the navigation.Example: during winter pines are green and the rest of the forest is transparent.
Any feedbacks or stories about this??

Thank you

[The Reaper]

Never used them for that purpose, too difficult and they have no grid reference or directional guide.

May be of value for route selection, definitely useful for targeting.

TR

[Razor]

How about this? (http://www.spaceimaging.com) Up to 1m panchromatic resolution. A bit pricey, though. :D

TR, ask the right people and you can have your grid lines at just about any scale you want.

[The Reaper]

I don't share that info with people I don't know.

I also prefer the contour intervals of a map for nav purposes till you get very close to a target.

TR

[Desert Fox]

Originally posted by Razor
How about this? (http://www.spaceimaging.com) Up to 1m panchromatic resolution. A bit pricey, though. :D

TR, ask the right people and you can have your grid lines at just about any scale you want.


Hi,
I am in an Arty unit, and we often use aerial imagery with grid and contours. But I am not sure it is availlable easily and fast.
But I dont think it would be very useful, until conventional maps offer enough information for normal nav.

[CSB]

Virtually all of the USA is at this web site:


http://terraserver-usa.com/

Play with it a while. When you get a zoomed-in image (up to 1 meter resolution) you can print, with an optional grid overlay.

For example, here's an interesting spot, about 6KM east of Hoffman, North Carolina:

http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?t=1&s=10&x=3189&y=19396&z=17&w=2



Click on "PRINT;" and then "11" x 17" and click on "SHOW GRID."

You will get a gridded photo in Latitude/Longitude (In Deg-Min-Sec and Decimal Degrees) as well as UTM grid in meters (easily converted into MGRS). That should get you close enough for targeting purposes.

You can zoom out (to about 4 meters/pixel) and see some interesting triangular runways.