Aerial Photography
The FRF Aerial Photos is an archive of
aerial photographs, covering the coast of North Carolina which includes the US
Army Corps of Engineers Field Research Facililty (FRF). These images are from
the collection of the North Carolina coast owned by the FRF.
Three overlapping images are available for each year, along
with a merged image of all three. NOTE: The merged image was created aligning
the shoreline for purposes of viewing and is not photogramatically correct.
Persons wishing to have merged photos for uses other than viewing, should
download the three individual images.
Nominal scale for these images is
1:12,000. To determine a more exact scale, the pier is 560.83 m (1840 ft)
measured long measured from the edge of the concrete deck to the end. The width
of the pier is 6.1 m (20 ft).
These images are available in two
different resolutions: a large jpeg(~200K), and a full size, 300 dpi jpeg
(~2,000K). Each is viewable and downloadable via the buttons on these html pages.
1984-pres.: FRF & surroundings
1930-38: Kitty Hawk to Rodanthe
Sep 2001: oblique aerials, Duck to Portsmouth Island
Additionally, all of the images are available in PDF format