Opportunities to Enhance Discovery, Explorability, and Access for Digital Aerial Imagery Collections

The author discusses opportunities for enhancing discovery, explorability, and access for digital aerial imagery collections. These opportunities are informed by a user survey that was conducted to ascertain what properties of aerial imagery users are most interested in when exploring these data, and to learn what methods of access are most desired in order to utilize these data. Conclusions are drawn from the survey results that can be used by GIS librarians to guide their digital georeferenced and non-georeferenced aerial imagery management activities in order to more effectively provide discovery, exploration, and access services for these data.