Black & White Aerial Photo

Black & White Aerial Photograph

Aerial Photographs are often taken from a helicopter above a land mass and sometimes from satellite images. Such photos are often used for resource planning, mapping, and agricultural monitoring among other things. Black and white aerial photographs, like the one pictured below of intersecting interstate highways, are often more preferred because of their ability to display strict contrasts and details, also, an NHAP black and white photograph covers more area, about 129 square miles than a color-infrared photograph, which usually on covers about 68 square miles in a given shot. This difference in scope is attributed to the longer focal length in the color-infrared camera.

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