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Orthomosaics Aerial photography for Kakadu National Park

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 04/03/2026

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This data set consists of .tif files of true colour orthomosaics for expansive areas of mangroves in Kakadu National Park in Australia's Northern Territory.

The orthomosaics were generated from 68 stereo pairs of true colour aerial photographs acquired in 1991 in the lower reaches of the East Alligator, West Alligator, South Alligator and Wildman Rivers and Field Island, Kakadu National Park, Northern Australia (Mitchell et al., 2007). The photographs were taken at a flying height of 13,000 ft (3,960 m) using a Wild CR10, a standard photogrammetric camera with a frame size of 230 x 230 mm. The focal length was 152 mm. The photographs were scanned by Airesearch (Darwin) with a photogrammetric scanner to generate digital images with a pixel resolution between 12 and 15 mm. The orthomosaics have a spatial resolution of 1 m, cover an area of approximately 742 km2 and a coastal distance of 86 km.

These orthomosaics were co-registered using ground control points identified from 1:100,000 digital topographic maps with a Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM), and subsequently co-registered to LiDAR data acquired over the same region in 2011.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Title Orthomosaics Aerial photography for Kakadu National Park
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/3e479d77-7094-45dd-9f98-bb812c379aaf
Contact Point
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
richard.lucas@aber.ac.uk
Reference Period 01/05/1991 - 01/05/1991
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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      ],
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        -12.048816
      ],
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        132.019011,
        -12.480832
      ],
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        132.9554,
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      ],
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  "type": "Polygon"
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network "Orthomosaics Aerial photography for Kakadu National Park". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/orthomosaics-aerial-photography-for-kakadu-national-park