What is the Aerial Photography Database and what is it used for?
The Geomatics Centre is the central repository for aerial photographic film. The archive consists of over 600,000 recent and historical vertical aerial photographs. This includes custom photography flown for other provincial departments (photography to support the corporate geographic datasets) as well as photography from the Provinces of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. This photography is available at various scales using colour, black & white, or infrared film. The Province uses aerial photography at 1:10,000 scale (colour) for forest inventory mapping and 1:40,000 (black and white) is used to update the 1:10,000 Nova Scotia Topographic Database (NSTDB) mapping, with both scales covering the entire province on a cyclical basis of up to 10 years. • What is the Nova Scotia Coordinate Referencing System (NSCRS) and what is it used for? The NSCRS is a comprehensive name used to describe the Provincial spatial reference standard and supporting spatial reference infrastructure. The
