Southern New Jersey 1970's Monochrome Aerial Imagery

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Originally published: February 12, 2025

Most recent update: none

Resolution: 4 feet (1.2 meters)

Map Tiles: 522,000

Size: 3.72 gb

Imagery Data Sources

Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC)
1970 Historical Aerial Imagery
www.dvrpc.org/aerials/

NJ Office of Information Technology, Office of Geographic Information Systems
New Jersey 1970 Wetlands Imagery
newjersey.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=

NJ Office of Information Technology, Office of Geographic Information Systems
New Jersey 1977 Tidelands Imagery
newjersey.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=

Delaware Department of Technology and Information
1968 USDA Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service Aerial Photography
imagery.firstmap.delaware.gov/imagery/rest/services/

Atlantic County New Jersey, Office of GIS
1970 Aerial View of Atlantic County, New Jersey
acogis.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=

Rutgers University Community Repository (RUcore)
NJ Department of Enivronmental Protection Aerial Photographs Collection
1972 Millville, New Jersey Aerial Photograph
rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/20503/

Basemap Data Sources

NJ Office of Information Technology, Office of Geographic Information Systems
Land Use/Land Cover of New Jersey 1986
www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=

US Geological Survey
Enhanced Historical Land-Use and Land-Cover Data Sets
pubs.usgs.gov/ds/2006/240/

New Jersey paved roads from the NJ Dept of Transportation and boydsmaps proprietary data
Pennsylvania and Delaware roads based on OpenStreetMap data
Unpaved roads from the USGS and other sources, including boydsmaps proprietary data

Description

This boydsmaps-exclusive map is a mosaic of aerial imagery from the 1970's covering Southern New Jersey and Delaware. Unfortunately, there is no available imagery for Pennsylvania and portions Ocean, Cumberland and Salem Counties in New Jersey. A simple monochromatic basemap with roads, waterbodies and shaded landcover is shown for these areas.

Where available, the New Jersey 1970 Wetlands imagery has been used. These aerials cover the coastal areas and were captured primarily during 1971-72 to support the Wetlands Act of 1970 (NJSA 13:9A-1, ET SEQ)

The New Jersey 1977 Tidelands imagery is used in coastal areas not covered by the 1970 Tidelands imagery. The NJ 1977 tidelands aerials were filmed during 1977-78 to support the Tidelands Act (NJSA 12:3)

Complete 1970 coverage of Atlantic County is included and full USDA 1968 coverage of Delaware was also available.

A total of 372 plates of 1970 aerial photography from the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) were custom georeferenced by Boyd for this project, covering portions of Mercer, Burlington, Camden and Gloucester Counties. The DVRPC has another 330 plates that cover the Pennsylvania portion of this map, however it is not likely that time will be available to georeference these in the foreseeable future. For this project, each plate took about 15 to 20 minutes to convert, georeference, crop and export. A very basic form of georeferencing was done by matching one point in each corner of the plate with NHAP 1980 orthoimagery. You will notice errors along the seams between plates. The original DVRPC 1970's aerials are not orthophotos, which limits their accuracy.

A 1972 NJDEP aerial photograph of Millville was georeferenced by Boyd and used because no other imagery was available for this location. But the resolution of this image is very low, which becomes obvious as you zoom in. The image was upscaled using the Adobe Photoshop Super Resolution plug-in, but there really wasn't enough detail in the original to allow for much improvement.

Credits

Recipients of DVRPC digital files are encouraged to credit Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission as the source of the data when producing maps, graphics, or other documents that utilize DVRPC files.

The New Jersey 1970 Wetlands Imagery basemaps were supplied by NJ Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), Land Use Regulation Program (LURP), Bureau of Tidelands (BOT) Digital conversion project was designed and supervised by NJ Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), Division of Information Technology (DOIT), Bureau of GIS (BGIS) Digital conversion was performed by Civil Solutions, a division of arh Original metadata for the digital data was provided by John Tyrawski, NJDEP OIRM BGIS This service is published by the NJ Office of Information Technology, Office of GIS (NJOGIS)

The scanning, geo-referencing and cropping of the New Jersey 1977 Tidelands basemaps was done by Civil Solutions, Inc. The project was defined and directed by NJ Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) The map service is published by NJ Office of Information Technology, Office of GIS (NJOGIS)

The DVRPC historical aerials are hosted by Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access (PASDA)

Millville 1972 imagery by Mark Hurd Aerial Surveys Inc.

State of Delaware, Delaware Department of Technology and Information

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