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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 state of California as represented in the Digital Orthophoto Quarter-Quadrangles includes approximately 13,200 scenes requiring roughly 670 gigabytes of storage space.
King and Phillip Curry for characterization of the NDV isolate as PPMV-1, Robert Lanciotti for SLEV strain TBH-28, and the United States Geological Survey for permission to use the digital orthophoto quadrangle of the northwest Atlanta rail yard.
The companies will also produce digital orthophotos on a countywide basis.
 
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