The "Report of Coverage", is a summary of the sorties of aerial exposures, found for your AOI (Area of Interest), for the period specified by you within the order. In each page of the report, data are given for a specific sorties, exposures of which were taken during the flight, through your AOI. By clicking on the following link "Example of the one page of the Report of Coverage", you can view an example of a report page per the one sortie. On it, you can see, black squares - the exposures covering the AOI, surrounded by a red square (AOI). Each black square is a separate aerial exposure. Coverage of exposures often goes along one line. In this case, in the report, we draw a line between two pictures of the sortie. To find out the location of the intermediate pictures of the sorties, which are go along the line, but are not reflected in the report, you should order our Preview Service for making a preview of these pictures. Also, in the report, we write, which exposures, by our opinion, are located withinthe zone indicated by you in the order. The report is necessary, for understanding, which images is cover your AOI and for the further processing of the order for scanning aerial photographs or making previews of aerial photographs.

The "Sortie" - is a certain number of aerial photographs that the plane made in one flight mission over the certain territory. Different sorties were been done on the same date, at different times and on different dates. We select only those sorties of archival aerial photographs which is covering your AOI at the time-frame, which you specified during the placing of the order.

What is the "Report of Coverage", you can read in the question above. The making of the "Report of coverage" for your AOI does not imply providing you, the aerial photographs themselves and / or their previews (small copies). To get the aerial photographs scanned or to receive their prewiews (small copies), you will need to place the order for that Service at our Website and pay for that Service.

This is possible, only in the case of ordering the scanning of aerial photographs, according to the report that you have, which you ordered from us. Or if you provide the archive requisites of the aerial photographs you need. In any other cases, to order scanning of images, you must first order a research for the Aerial photographs within the archive with making of the "Report of Coverage".

German Luftwaffe Aerial Reconnaissance photography, in 95% of cases is held in the archives on the paper original photographs. Allied Aerial Reconnaissance photography, on the film.

We are using Epson Expression 10000XL and 11000XL for purposes of digitization of the Aerial Reconnaissance photographs. That scanners are professional models, which is providing the best quality of while digitizing of an archival materials.

We will make a research to find the coverage of your AOI as soon as possible, after you'll place an order. We will make a short research, without the creating of the Report of coverage, in the same day, as order was placed. Before we will send you an invoice and without any charge. If we will not find any sorties meets the order requirments, we will send you a e-mail. Also we will check the coverage for your AOI at the near dates and give you a short brief by E-mail. So you will can make a decision about the changing of the time-frame, which you already speceified in the order. In the case if we will find sorties which are meets your order requirments, we will send you an invoice. After you pay by the invoice, you should wait up to 7 business days, until we prepare you the "Report of Coverage" for the AOI, which you've specified within the order.

The digitizing process of the German Luftwaffe Aerial Reconnaissance photographs takes up to 14 working days (Excluding official weekends and holidays, on the territory of the Russian Federation). The digitizing process of the Allied Aerial Reconnaissance photographs takes up to 21 working days (Excluding official weekends and holidays, on the territory of the Russian Federation).

Digitized image will be provided to you as uncompressed JPEG-file, with the 1200 dpi optical resolution, packed in the ZIP-archive. By following "Gallery"->"Examples" menu, on our website, you can see the examples of the digitized by us at 1200dpi optical resolution, Aerial Reconnaissance photographs.

We're making GPS-binding for the Aerial Reconnaissance photographs in the GeoTIFF format, WGS 84 Datum, UTM Projection. Also with GeoTIFF file, we're providing the MAP file, for the Ozi Explorer, version for PC. So you will can open GPS-binded Aerial Reconnaissance photographs, in any software which is support GeoTIFF format and in the Ozi Explorer (PC version) software.

Preview is a small copy of the one exposure, scanned at 36 dpi. We also making an orthorectification of the preview and provide you a KMZ-file for Google Earth version for PC. So you will can check the true location of the exposure, check the clouds/defects on the exposure, before you'll place the order of the scan. That wil save your money, by prevent of ordering of the exposure, which is misplaced in the archival reference materials for the sortie, or when it will has heave clouds or will has huge defects. In the "Examples" gallery, you can see the example of the Preview and KMZ-file.

In that case, we will return the prepayment you've made to your account within our system. This money can be used as payment within your further orders, or refunded to your bank card upon your request. We also check the nearest time-frames for your AOI, when we're making the research, and will let you know about the sorties, which is also covering your AOI during that time-frames. So you'll can change the time-frame, which you've specified within the order and request the "Report of Coverage" with the new time-frame.

The prepayment for the missing exposure will be returned to your account in the Member Area of the our Service. That money can be used as payment for another order or refunded to your bank card upon your request.

Unfortunately, but you can't. According to our Contract-Offer We can receive orders only via filling the order form at our website. You can place an order via the Member Area: Member Area

According to our Contract-Offer cases "5.12.1" and "5.12.4" We not replace the electronical copies of the exposures which originals have defects. Also we're not make any refunds on these orders in that case. We doing our best to get quality electronical copies from the archival material, but in some cases, condition of the original archival materials is very poor.

According to ourContract-Offer cases: "5.5", "5.12.1" and "5.12.4" We're not taking any resposibility if you're not satisfied with the objects on the exposure. So that order will not be refunded.

Unfortunately, that's happens from time to time. Many and many exposures from the aerial Reconaissance missions were missing since year 1945. Some of German Aerial Reconaissance exposures were lost during bombing of Berlin in 1945, and during the transportation to the Allies.

The not detailed sorties - Sorties which were made with small focal lengh or from high altitude. The larger scale of the sorties means the less details on them. But the coverage area of such images is several times larger than the coverage of the territory with exposures from the detailed sorties. Wooden houses and some fortifications on them will be visible, but small details may be difficult to view.

Some part of this question is already have it's answer in the question above. Smaller digits means more detailed scale. So the exposure with the scale of 1:15000 will be more detailed that exposure with the scale of 1:38000. The originals of different scale images have the same dimensions, so two different images with different focal lenghts or altitude will give different details.

Unfortunately, we can't. All of the orders have it's unique parametrs and in much cases will never be the same with your order parametrs. Such parametrs - Area size, time-frame and etc. So we can't tell you about the exposures, which are covering your AOI, without making of the research within the archives. You can browse our collection, at our website, and order the exposure present there. But if you can't find the exposure for your AOI, you will need to place an order for the research and making of the PDF coverage map.

We're working within the National Archives And Records Administration (USA). That's archive, which is holding 95 percent of all Second World War Aerial Reconnaissance photographs, Allied and German.

Our service is registered on the territory of the Russian Federation since 2013. Our registration details are given on the page of the Сontract-Offer within the "Documents" menu and on the "Contacts" page. A copy of the registration certificate, our company in the territory of the Russian Federation, is also given on the Contract-Offer page, at the bottom of the page. Links to the publical made orders within the Russian internet-segment:

http://bvf.ru/forum/showthread.php?t=993162

http://forum-kenig.ru/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=3839

Unfortunately, due to lack of the time, we will can't do that for you. You can check our "Help in recognition" section on our web-site.

Unfortunately, you can send us your payment only by payment methods, which is present in the contract-offer.

Unfortunately, on very many exposures date of making is absent. In 99% cases, the date on the exposures is equal to the date, which is speceified in the archival reference materials. In the PDF-reports, we're providing the date of sortie, which is specified in the archival material related to that sortie. That materials were made in the early 1960s, so we're not taking any responsibility for the correct dates. But If you very confused about the right date of the exposure, we can make a scan of the archival reference materials and german flight plan of the sortie(if it's present in the box with the sortie) for additional fee.

The time-frames, which is specified in the contract offer is covering only the business(operate) dates, without offical weekends and holidays on the territory of Russian Federation. That's also present in the contract-offer. Please read it carefully. Satturday and Sunday is weekend and we're not operate in that days. In your case, two days of your waiting time is had on the weekend. So your order will be ready on monday of the next week (7+2).

Please, check the answer a few question above. "What is the detailed sorties or the not detailed sorties? What difference between them?".

Not in all cases. Sometimes, buildings and fortification objects is looking better on the winter time exposures. In the some cases, you can view fortification objects only on the winter-time photographs, because they were made by the snow. The only one source for viewing them - the photographs which were made in the winter-time.