News

New batch of finding aids released Over 940,000 aerial images now searchable. 17 December 2014
Observing Operation SEALION Monitoring the German build-up to the invasion of Britain in 1940. 6 October 2014
Aero Pictorial images of Scotland released Over 1,000 historical aerial images of Scotland now available online. 3 October 2014
Mosaics now available Mosaics of Scotland and Sardinia are now available to subscribers. 11 September 2014
3D model of Rome in 1944 A joint research project with the University of Vienna has created a 3D model of Rome from aerial photography taken in 1944. 31 July 2014
NCAP imagery assists weapons search Aerial imagery of wartime trench leads to search for buried weapons. 30 July 2014
Exhibition in Rosenheim, Germany NCAP aerial photography features in a new exhibition – Rosenheim 1864-2014 - about the growth and development of the Bavarian city, in south-east Germany. 1 July 2014
Images of the Commonwealth released 3,500 aerial images of Kenya and Jamaica feature in our latest upload. 27 June 2014
New Film - Sightlines - Offers a Vision of the Commonwealth New film inspired by NCAP photography explores colonialism and its consequences, as they are being played out today, in a hillside village in Kenya. 16 June 2014
Images of Nordrhein-Westfalen released Images of Paderborn and Sennelager feature in our latest image upload 10 June 2014
New batch of 4,500 images released Images of Sweden and Venice feature in our latest image upload. 23 April 2014
New Finding Aids subscription available Zoom and pan Finding Aids with our new subscription package. 16 April 2014
New Aerofilms book published A History of Britain from Above 24 February 2014
Images of the Alps released A new batch of 6,700 historical aerial images of Austria and southern Germany has been released and is now accessible online. 19 November 2013
Colour aerial images of Scottish beaches released A collection of 8,283 of oblique aerial images taken during a survey of beaches in Scotland has been uploaded to the NCAP website. 28 October 2013
Meridian Airmaps images released A new batch of 6,790 historic aerial images of Scotland taken by Meridian Airmaps has been digitised, catalogued and uploaded to the NCAP website. This batch includes complete cover of central Scotland in the early 1970's. 25 September 2013
New batch of images released A new batch of 4,790 images has been digitised, catalogued and uploaded to the NCAP website. Areas covered include the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, and the city of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 26 August 2013
Cabinet Secretary briefed on NCAP developments Fiona Hyslop MSP is briefed on the use of NCAP aerial imagery in recent BBC documentaries and on forthcoming website developments. 8 August 2013
D-Day: The Last Heroes Images from NCAP are featuring in a new two-part BBC documentary about the Normandy landings, D-Day: The Last Heroes. To co-incide with the broadcast, over 3,500 images taken on D-Day have been released on the NCAP website. 6 June 2013
New Book Reveals Secrets of Hitler’s V-Weapons A new book, by NCAP Curator Allan Williams, tells the story of Operation Crossbow, the photographic intelligence hunt for Nazi 'Vengeance' weapons. 5 June 2013