Department of Archaeology

Aerial photography of WW I in Nord-Pas-de-Calais (2015)

A mosaic of WW I aerial photographs of the entire front region in Nord and Pas-de-Calais (France)

Interactive museum display with 6.500 WW I aerial photographs
Interactive museum display with 6.500 WW I aerial photographs
The archaeology department of Ghent University was committed on behalf of the Nord - Pas-de-Calais administration (France) with the objective of a historical aerial photographs coverage of the entire front region in the French departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais. For this project approximately 6.500 vertical aerial photographs from the First World War, originating from the photograph archive of the Imperial War Museum (London), were georeferenced in a GIS environment and merged into a mosaic. This mosaic will be used for specially developed web applications and is already at display in a new museum at Souchez, regarding the commemoration of World War I.

Contact

Dr. Birger Stichelbaut

Yannick Van Hollebeeke

Prof. dr. Jean Bourgeois

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