Aerial photo mosaic of Atherton Tablelands in June 1978 (NERP TE 12.2, Griffith, source: DERM)

Brief description

This dataset is a photo mosaic of historic aerial imagery of the southern Atherton Tablelands from 16th June 1978.

It includes the towns of Atherton, Malanda, Yungaburra and Tolga. It has a southern boundary just north of Millaa Millaa, a northern boundary of Lake Tinaroo, an eastern boundary of a quarter of Wooroonooran National Park and a western boundary of Atherton.

This photo mosaic was compiled to assist in the location of rainforest regrowth areas for the NERP-TE project 12.2, Harnessing natural regeneration for cost-effective rainforest restoration (Griffith University, University of Queensland).

This photo mosaic was produced by Atherton Tablelands Geographical Information Services (ATGIS), April 2012, from digital data provided by Department of Environment and Resource Management (DERM), Queensland.

Aerial photography ownership; Department of Environment and Resource Management (Queensland). Aerial photography data is "© State of Queensland (Department of Environment and Resource Management) [2012]".

The photo mosaic is 13792x12623 pixels with a pixel size of 2.75mx2.75m and has a spatial reference of MGA55 (EPSG:28355). The original mosaic is stored in ECW format (18 MB). A GeoTiff version of the mosaic was created for the eAtlas (440 MB).

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Photo mosaic produced by Atherton Tablelands Geographical Information Services (ATGIS), April 2012

1978 aerial photography imagery; digital data provided by Department of Environment and Resource Management, Queensland

Photography Name: DERM-8063 Bartle Frere 78 Program Aerial Photography

Digital data provided by DERM as scans of hard copy photos

Aerial photography ownership; Department of Environment and Resource Management (Queensland). Aerial photography data is “© State of Queensland (Department of Environment and Resource Management) [2012]”.

Date of aerial photography; 16/6/1978

Aerial photography resolution; 400 dpi jpeg

Aerial photography scale; 1:49800