Aerial Photography

This page lists metadata for the Aerial Basemap, Historic Aerials and layers that appear in Raster Layers section of the Extract Data Download tool: 

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Aerial Photography 

Aerials - Tasman – Urban 2017-18

Aerial photography covers the area of urban settlements at a high resolution of 7.5 or 10 centimetres. Flown during summer 2017/18.

Aerials - Tasman - Rural Nth 2015-16

Aerial photography covers the rural and coastal areas of Tasman between Golden Bay and Moutere/Waimea at a low resolution of 30 centimetres. Flown during summer 2015/2016.

Aerials - Tasman - Rural Sth 2016-17-18

Aerial photography covers the rural areas south of Wakefield at a resolution of 30 centimetres flown during summer 2016-17, and Lee Valley summer 2017-18.

Aerials - Nelson - Urban 2017

Aerial photography covers the urban and more populated areas of Nelson from Cable Bay to Champion Road at a high resolution of 7.5 centimetres. Flown 20 November 2017.

Aerials - Nelson - Rural 2014

Aerial photography covers the entire Nelson region at a fairly low resolution of 40 centimetres. Flown 24 February 2014.

Aerials - Nelson Tasman - SPOTMaps 2012 - 2014

Satellite Imagery covers Top of the South Island incorporating rural areas of Nelson and Tasman at a low resolution of 1.5m. Dates of imagery range between 2012 and 2014. This dataset is not available for Raw data download.

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Historic Aerial Photography 

Aerials 1940-1949

Historic Aerials covering parts of both Nelson and Tasman. Nelson City Aerials flown: 1943, 1948, 1959. Tasman DC Aerial flown: 1945-1948. Note that the 1959 Nelson City images are only a strip along the south edge of Nelson City
Aerials 1980-1989 Historic Aerials covering a coastal strip of about 5-10km across both Nelson and Tasman.

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