Historical aerial photography is a great tool for understanding and
observing changes in the landscape over time. Our collection is
used by a variety of people, such as geographers, environmental
engineers, historians, and has applications for town and city planners,
developers, and ground water scientists.
How this site works - Users with
access to a geographic information system (GIS) can download the
shapefiles for a certain year for a specific county. Personal
geodatabases are also available for each county as well. The attribute
table of the specific feature class contains links that take the user to
the image or metadata of the photograph.
Users without access to a GIS can view
aerial photography index maps to see what images are available in the
MAGIC collection. Currently the collection has photography from
1951, 1969 (for selected counties), 1970, 1985, and 1995.
Aerial photography, shapefiles, and
personal geodatabases come with
Federal
Geographic Data Committee
compliant metadata. Shapefiles and Personal Geodatabases are
projected in Connecticut State Plane, NAD 1983. Aerial photography
is not geo-rectified.
