Aerial Photographs

Using UCSC's Aerial Photo Collection

Our collection of aerial photos covers these five counties:  Santa Cruz, San Mateo, Santa Clara, San Benito and Monterey.
 

Our Geographic Index of Selected Sites lists flights available for selected areas.

The list now includes links to the individual indexes for each flight.  For more information about aerial photographs, try our Five Minute Aerial Tutorial.

Be sure to check our hours before making a trip to campus, and allow plenty of time for your visit. Click for information about photocopying or scanning photos.

Aerial Photographs Online

We are scanning our aerial photo collection as time and copyright restrictions permit. Check out our list of digitized flights, and the link to the digital collection.


Beyond the Monterey Bay Region
Looking for photographs that are not in our five county area? Try another UC library: UC aerial photo coverage, by county.

UC Berkeley also collects coverage of San Mateo and Santa Clara counties and they have an easy-to-use catalog of aerial photographs on their Web site. They also have some scanned photographs online.