Table 6. List of aerial overflight data of Everglades National Park/Florida Bay [Data stored at 
the Everglades Research Center Library], 
Date of flight 
Scale 
Area flown 
Film type 
5/3-7/40 
1:40,000 
Everglades National Park area 
Black and white 
1 1/28/53 
1:20,000 
Northwest Florida Bay and east Cape 
Sable 
Black and white 
4/26-6/1/64 
Unknown 
Florida Bay 
Unknown 
1/27/7 1 
Unknown 
Everglades National Park including 
extreme southeast Florida Bay 
Unknown 
1 / 7 3 
Unknown 
Florida Bay 
Color IR, high altitude U2 
1 2/78 
1:7800- 
10,000 
Flamingo and Florida Bay mangroves 
CIR 
87 
Unknown 
Florida Bay (exotics) 
Color 
90 
Unknown 
Florida Bay? 
Unknown 
92 
Unknown 
Florida Bay and Ten Thousand Islands 
Color. Post Andrew. 
between the Keys, passages through Florida Bay as a short cut to Cape Sable, and places that 
could afford shelter during severe weather. 
4.3. Aerial photography and remote sensing 
There have been many aerial overflights of Florida Bay and the Everglades National Park 
including some shortly before and after World War II. The data recorded during many of these 
flights has not been processed and the film is stored at Everglades National Park Headquarters. 
A partial list of overflight compiled from various sources is in Table 6. There are other 
sources of remote sensing data on the Bay not listed in Table 6 including overflight data stored 
at the Earth Resources Observation Systems (EROS) Data Center (EDC). Landsat 4/5 
Multispectral Scanner (MSS) data are available from the Earth Observation Satellite (EOSAT) 
Company under contract agreement to the Government. As of 1990, EOSAT and NOAA reached 
an agreement that allowed MSS data older than two years to be sold at the EROS Data Center 
for the cost of reproduction and distribution. Landsat MSS data are archived at EDC as part of 
the National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive. 
In 1978, several Federal agencies agreed to coordinate their aerial photo acquisition activities. 
Thus from 1980 through 1986, the Federal Government conducted the National High Altitude 
Photography (NHAP) Program designed to obtain complete, uniform coverage of the 48 
conterminous states over a 5-yr cycle. As part of the NHAP Program, black-and-white and 
color-infrared aerial photographs were obtained from an altitude of 40,000 ft on 9-in film. The 
color-infrared photographs, at a scale of 1:58,000, and the black-and-white photographs at a 
scale of 1:80,000, were centered over the USGS 7.5-min quadrangles. Strict specifications 
regarding sun angle, cloud cover, minimal haze, stereoscopic coverage, and image inspection 
were followed. In 1986, the NHAP was renamed the National Aerial Photography Program 
(NAPP) and specifications were changed to obtain color-infrared photographs only. NAPP 
photographs are obtained from an altitude of 20,000 ft on 9-in film with a resulting scale of 
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