Aerial photographic project of the Californian coastline
A typical image from the project, which gave rise to the "Streisand effect"
The California Coastal Records Project, founded in 2002,[1] documents the California coastline with aerial photos taken from a helicopter flying parallel to the shore. Their webpage provides access to these images. One photo was taken every 500 feet.[2][3] Each photo showed a few hundred yards of the coastline, with frames overlapping.[4] The entire California coast is included, except sections of Vandenberg Air Force Base[5] (although some historical photos are included from an earlier survey in 1989). Most of the coast has been photographed several times, and the website has an interface for comparing photos taken during different years.
^California coast & ocean. State Coastal Conservancy in association with the Romberg Tiburon Centers, San Francisco State University. 2007. Retrieved 6 May 2012.