This page discusses World War II aerial photos taken by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and provided on-line by the Geo-spatial Digital Archive Project (GDAP) in its Williams-Hunt Aerial Photograph Digital Collection.1
The Williams-Hunt collection has two separate sets of aerial photos for Phrae2, located as shown:3
In the following, aerial photos were manually joined into mosaics because Microsoft ICE (Image Composition Editor) introduced too much distortion.
Photomosaic No. 1
The area around Phrae outlined above in red was recorded in six RAF aerial photos taken on 07 March 1944:4
A higher resolution image is available for download here.
The following GDAP images were used in the above photomosaic:5
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and assembled approximately like this, using manual fitting:6
Photomosaic No. 2
An alternate, macro, two-photo view dated 24 January 1944, as outlined in blue on the site map above, was also recorded:7
A higher resolution image is available for download here.
The following GDAP images were used in the above photomosaic:
and manually assembled approximately like this:8
GDAP, the source of these photos, has asked that the following information be included regarding the aerial imagery shown above:
- Williams-Hunt Aerial Photos Collection
- Original from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
- Digital Data from Center for Southeast Asia Studies (CSEAS), Kyoto University
- Digital Archive from Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy (CRMA), Thailand
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- The collection and its origin are described in detail in:
Lertlum, PhD, Col Surat, and Dr Elizabeth Moore, Williams-Hunt Aerial Photograph Collection, (undated); available as here linked.
Moore, Elizabeth, The Williams-Hunt Collection, Sari – International Journal of the Malay World and Civilisation, 27(2)(2009), pp 265-284.
Periasamy, Makeswary, “A View from the Top“, biblioasia, 5(1) (Apr 2009), pp 38-42. [↩]
- N18°08 E100°09 Source: Google Earth fix on apparent center of town. [↩]
- “Terrain” map from Nations Online Project: Searchable Map and Satellite View of Thailand using Google Earth Data. Annotation (red & blue colored items) aligned with Adobe PhotoShop and placed with Microsoft Publisher by author. [↩]
- Photos were manually assembled. The mosaic is oriented so that its north is to the top of the page. [↩]
- The files used here are 1024 KB. Downloading the files which are designated “[full size]” requires a special request form to be emailed to the Head, GDAP. [↩]
- Drawn with Microsoft Publisher by author. [↩]
- Photos were manually assembled. The mosaic is reoriented so that its north is to the top of the page. [↩]
- Drawn with Microsoft Publisher by author. [↩]
