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Historical Aerial Downloader

A very rough script to download and add EXIF georeferencing information to historical aerial images archives.

Installation

virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

You also need to install exiftool.

Usage

Modify CSV_URL, URL_PREFIX and IMAGE_EXT in run.py and then run:

python run.py

Results will be stored in results/.

Note that this is not a general purpose script.

Once downloaded with this script, historical aerial stereo-images can be processed with OpenDroneMap to create georeferenced, orthorectified images such as the one shown below:

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image

You can download the resulting GeoTIFF from https://drive.google.com/open?id=18UhkAR5jggOtgNvBzadEz-P-bymu14_m

Credits to University of Minnesota for the aerial images archive.

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