Aerographica is a partnership which specialises in environmental research, record and interpretation of the history and present condition of the natural heritage (including the earth heritage) and of cultural landscapes, using aerial photography as the main tool.

The partners in Aerographica are:

Angus Macdonald BSc PhD FSA(Scot) HonFRSGS,

Professor of Architectural Studies and Head of the School of Arts, Culture and Environment at the University of Edinburgh, who specialises in aspects of the built environment and the artefact-rich end of the spectrum of cultural landscapes, in collaboration with

Dr Patricia Macdonald BSc FRSE FSA(Scot) FRSA HonFRSGS,

biologist, researcher in environmental perception and iconography, artist-photographer and Honorary Fellow and Course Organiser in Cultural Landscape Studies in the University of Edinburgh, whose interests lie towards the wilder, ‘semi-natural’ end of that spectrum.

The partnership benefits from the combination of this broad academic expertise with considerable operational experience (Aerographica operates its own aircraft and both partners are licensed pilots). It carries out commissioned environmental work from a sound basis of research and maintains a substantial archive of aerial images of Scotland, of other parts of the UK and Europe and of North Africa, with an emphasis on natural and earth heritage and cultural landscapes.