Historical Basemaps?

Question

I was wondering if you guys can Please Help me out here. I use ArcGIS for work and mapping Oil field leases and boundary lines. I am looking to add new basemaps to the ArcGIS desktop that shows old satellite imagery over the past several decades and also some topographic data. I believe there is a USA Topographic map available for the online ArcGIS but how can I add this to the desktop program? Thanks

VikramjitKakati · Answer

I am also facing the same Issue for Historical LULC analysis

VikramjitKakati · Answer

I have tried , but  it is not working

RobertBorchert · Answer

Air photography is somewhat expensive to acquire and many locations will not do it every year.    I know the air photos for my house on BING are at least 4 or 5 years old because my house is the old color.

Sometimes larger metro areas will have air photos updated more often and at a higher resolution.

What you have for dates sounds correct.

Here are some WMS service I found for Texas.

http://data.crwr.utexas.edu/wms.html

http://www.texasview.org/Thank you for all the suggestions guys. I'm Located in Luling, TX.   It's more of a rural area so I know there may not be as many data points to work with but all the help is appreciated. I'm just curious, how often is satellite photography taken? I found google earth has them skipping every few years then 2 in one year as far back as 2011, 2006,2005,2002 then 1995, does that sound right?