Features and benefits

Features

• High-resolution photographs taken at different angles, including the four points of the compass, allowing you to see the size and design of features in 3-dimensions.
• Powerful built-in Electronic Field Study (EFS) software with tools for accurately measuring distance and height, for example the heights of buildings and trees, distance between two features etc. The software is easy to use, and searches for all available images at the click of a mouse.
• The EFS software is simple to use; no knowledge of GIS is required to use it, and training can be provided at your premises.  There is also a dedicated telephone helpline to answer any queries.
• The Pentaview tool allows you to view and navigate between all 5 images at once allowing you to see and measure all sides of a building immediately. 
• Upwards of 12 perspectives of any given subject.
• Covering all of Great Britain’s urban areas with a population of greater than 50,000.
• BLOM Aerofilms ltd are committed to updating the imagery every two years.
• You specify the extent of the imagery you want and choose from several licensing periods.
• Seamless orthorectified imagery included in addition to orthogonal (vertical) view photographs.
• Integration with GIS software including Arc CadCorp and MapInfo.

Benefits

• Significantly saves the time and costs of site visits. Distance and height measurement tools will provide valuable information, potentially ruling out the need for initial surveys.
• Oblique view imagery allows you to identify features not easily interpreted from above.  You can use it to monitor tree health (to aid compliance with health and safety policy), street furniture and building overhangs.
• Images can be retained in reports to support decision making and auditing.
• Easy to use! You don’t need photo-interpretation skills, making feature recognition much quicker.
• You get a complete picture not available in mapping or vertical imagery products. Emergency Services can view incident scenes in their entirety, allowing responders to quickly assess the number of floors in a building, access points, windows, line of sight etc.
• When responding to an incident, viewing the imagery can turn night into day, winter into summer.
• The imagery can be overlaid with your information and other datasets, including OS MasterMap®.  This gives you the versatility to combine all of the information you have in one place.
• Improve the efficiency of your operations with instant access to information on your desktop.

Edinburgh Castle west view

Edinburgh Castle north view

Edinburgh Castle east view

Edinburgh Castle south view

Edinburgh Castle vertical view