Benefactor & aerial photographer Mary Meader dies at age 91

Mary Upjohn Meader, a longtime Western Michigan University benefactor and director emerita of the WMU Foundation, died March 16 in Kalamazoo. She was 91.

As a young woman in 1937, Meader flew over both South America and Africa took a treasure trove of aerial photos that are still being used by scholars today.

Representatives of the American Geographical Society asked Meader to sign the historic Flyers' and Explorers' Globe twice to mark those momentous flights.

You can view some of the photos she's taken here and here.

To read about her click here.

Aerial Photos in National Geographic

Beautiful aerial shots (National Geografic).

http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photos/patterns-island-aerials.html


http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photos/patterns-aerial-views.html

Aerial photography as a tool for the archaeological research

The remains of the Via Egnatia between Amphipolis and Philippoi in Greece were found using aerial photos of the region.

Four researchers of the Department of Cadastre, Photogrammetry and Cartography, Aristotles University of Thessaloniki, Greece, found buried archaeological remains with the aid of the Pan-sharpened (fused) image Quickbird-2.

The full paper with photos is located here: http://www.isprs.org/istanbul2004/comm7/papers/202.pdf