Welcome to Luftbilddatenbank

 

 

Services in the field of historic aerial photographs - search, acquisition, archving and analysis.

 

Our business activities range from acquisition of single photographs for private customers to the most advanced methods of remote historical air-photography investigation of subsoil military ordnance- and industry-contaminated terrain. You are kindly invited to inform yourself about our work on the following pages.

 

Luftbilddatenbank holds a remarkable imultitude of historic air-photographs and has easy access to the leading World War II air-photo archives. Continuous expansion of our own archive and the efficient localization procedure of pictures in our state-of-the-art data base put us in the position to react to your requests by fast, tailor-made and pinpoint offers.

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Fields of work

 

 

Our competencies can be sub classified in the following categories:

 

I. Air-photo archive, air-photo and document search

  • Multitude of aerial photographs covering the years 1938 to 1955 within our own archive
  • Selective access to another more than 4 million pictures in American and British archives
  • World-War II war-damage documents
  • A broad range of World-War II war-damage documents in our own archive
  • Continuous expansion of our archive - also beyond the central-European World-War II theatre of war
  • Immediate access to a unique band-width of historical air-photographs of central Europe

 

II. Air-photo analysis, digital cartography and geoinformation

  • Detection of World-War II subsoil military ordnance contamination
  • Specific search for UXO (unexploded explosive ordnance)
  • Historic-genetic reconstruction of contaminated sites, military and industrial
  • Generation of specific maps and map series, e.g. on military ordnance contamination
  • Preparation of ortho-photomaps
  • Higher planning dependability and reduction of time and costs by targeted contamination reconnaissance