Hi Jeff,

I used to work for the firm that took that database and transferred it into
modern usability and updated it with modern photography.

You can contact the company National Aerial Resources at aerialsearch.net


On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 7:52 PM Jeff Essic <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The APSRS CDs released in the mid-1990s contain an database used to list
> all the federal-level aerial photo missions covering any given 7.5 minute
> quadrangle area.  To use, one must install a front-end software app for
> querying the underlying database.  The software is 16-bit and thus cannot
> be installed on modern 64-bit computers.  Meanwhile, the underlying
> database appears to be in a proprietary binary format that can't be easily
> opened and read.
>
> I am thus wondering if anyone knows of a continuity plan to update the
> software and/or the database?  Or is there an alternative means for
> accessing the data, perhaps something online?  Using EarthExplorer, this
> can be done in a round-about way, but you have to select each agency one at
> a time to see what may possibly be available.
>
> By the way, APSRS (not to be confused with ASPRS) stands for Aerial
> Photography Summary Record System.
>
> I appreciate your thoughts and ideas!
>
> Jeff Essic
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> North Carolina State University
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