REPORT ON THE USE OF AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY IN 
REGIONAL AND LOCAL PLANNING IN THE NETHERLANDS 
  
of 
Ir. A.C.M. van der Pas 
e? NATIONAL PHYSICAL PLANNING AGENCY 
1975. TL2 Hegue The Netherlands 
1. Introduction 
It is possible to perceive a clear delay between the development of 
remote sensing techniques and their application in physical planning, 
altourh this delay is not equally long in each country (LENCO, 1977). 
The user (in this case the planner) is most interested in operational 
techniques, but, in contrast to accounts of experiments of which there are 
many, there are few publications on this aspect. 
Both these considerations, together with this symposium as a stimula- 
ting factor, led to the setting up of a survey using a questionnaire, into 
ihe operational usage of aerial photography in physical planning in the 
hetherlands. The modern remote sensing techniques are not excluded from this 
paper from the outset, but apart from a few ongoing experiments they have 
not been applied (DE BRUUN, 1978). 
Before discussing the setting up of the research, and the results, a 
brief description is given of the structure of physical planning in the 
Netherlands. 
2. Physical planning in the Netherlands 
In the Netherlands, physical planning is principally carried out at 
the three administrative levels: national, provincial and local as shown in 
figure 1 (BRUSSAARD, 1974).