Aerial photography
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"Paris dort dans les bras de la Seine. Paris dort et les parisiens rêvent (…) ils ne se doutent pas que le destin pense à eux..."-- Under the Sky of Paris (1951), incipit voice-over showing a fly-over of Paris, text written by Henri Jeanson |
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Aerial photography is the taking of photographs of the ground from an elevated position. The term usually refers to images in which the camera is not supported by a ground-based structure. Cameras may be hand held or mounted, and photographs may be taken by a photographer, triggered remotely or triggered automatically. Platforms for aerial photography include fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, balloons, blimps and dirigibles, rockets, kites, poles, parachutes, and vehicle mounted poles. Aerial photography should not be confused with Air-to-Air Photography, when aircraft serve both as a photo platform and subject.
See also
- Aerial archaeology
- Aerial landscape art
- Aerofilms Ltd., the first commercial aerial photography company in the UK, founded in 1919
- Airborne Real-time Cueing Hyperspectral Enhanced Reconnaissance
- Astrocam
- Aviation photography
- Battle of Neuve Chapelle
- Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton 1932 photo flight over Mount Everest
- Fairchild K-20 An early aerial camera
- Federal Aviation Regulations
- Geoinformatics
- Kite aerial photography
- National Monuments Record the public archive of English Heritage, who hold one of the largest collections of aerial photographs of England
- Oracle model photographic rocket
- Pictometry
- Pigeon photography
- Photogrammetry
- Remote sensing
- Satellite imagery
- TopoFlight
- Unmanned aerial vehicle