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Aerial Photographs

Aerial photographs are views of the landscape, taken by airplanes with analogue or digital cameras.

Analogue aerial photographs

Analogue aerial photographs

Analogue aerial photographs will be scanned and delivered on appropriate storage media. 

Digital aerial photographs

Digital aerial photographs
For digital photogrammetric capture the digital data can be delivered on appropriate storage media.

Orientation elements

Orientation elements

To be able to perform a metric restitution of aerial photographs one has to reconstruct the orientation of the image in space at the time of capture.

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Last updated: 01.12.2010
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