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Published on 8 January 2024

Terrestrial images

After World War I and up to the beginning of the 1950s, much of the region of the Alps was topographically surveyed using terrestrial photogrammetry for the purpose of producing the 1:10'000 fortification maps and the 1:50'000 National Map.

Measurement image of the snow-covered Matterhorn. The frame marks of the measurement image can be seen at the edge of the photograph.

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