Aerial Photo Historic Change Visualization Tool Creation

PetersonGIS research and development, 2005

Objective:

Create online tool for visualizing and comparing historic and present-day digital orthophotos.

Result:

Duckabush Estuary Historic Change

The orthophotos below show the estuary where the Duckabush River flows into the Hood Canal. A description of the Duckabush Watershed can be found at the NWR-NOAA website. The image immediately visible was taken in 2000 (courtesy of WA State Department of Natural Resources). Move your mouse over the image to see a photo of the same location taken in 1939 (courtesy of the Puget Sound River History Project, University of Washington.

More orthophotos can be downloaded from the UW River History Project website.