Abstract
During the First World War, millions of aerial photographs were taken as a source of military intelligence. Approximately 500,000 of these histo¬ rical photographs are preserved in archives. The collection the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History in Brussels holds 48,000 photographs covering the Belgian front, 16000 photographs in the collection of the Australian War Memorial cover the battlefields near Ypres. The Imperial War Museum Box collection holds 133,000 original glass plate negatives of both the front region and the back areas. In Germany, over 300,000 aerial photographs in the Baye-risches Hauptstaatsarchiv of Belgium and France are of major importance. This paper describes the main characteristics of the aerial photographs, elaborates on the benefit of the aerial perspective offered by these sources and presents a number of applications of these sources for archaeological research, heritage management and interactive museum applications.
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