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orthophotograph
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orthophotograph
(Data West Research Agency definition: see GIS glossary.) An aerial photograph in which the displacement of images has been removed and that has the distortion due to tilt, curvature, and ground relief corrected. It is a "scale corrected" aerial image, depicting ground features in their exact ground positions, in which distortion caused by camera and flight characteristics and relief displacement have been removed using photogrammetric techniques.
orthophotograph [‚ȯr·thə′fōd·ə‚graf]
(geology)
A photographic copy, prepared from a photograph formed by a perspective projection, in which the displacements due to tilt and relief have been removed.


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The main products and services to customers are aerial photography; photo interpretation; processing and interpretation of digital satellite images; development of photogrammetric and topographic maps; digital orthophoto images; aerial laser scanning; hydrography; termography measurements; development of databases in the sphere of GIS and consulting services.
The surveying activities will provide basic topographic data; LiDAR digital surface models (DSM), digital terrain models (DTM) and orthophotos, for a project constructing a new oil and gas pipeline in the area.
The Intergraph DMC will be used by Aerial Surveys for a wide range of acquisition missions including state-wide orthophoto projects and large-scale engineering surveys.
 
 
 
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