Aerial photographs
Photographs of the earth taken from aircraft. For photographs taken from beyond the earth's atmosphere, use "space photographs." For photographs of celestial bodies or astronomical phenomena, use "astrophotographs." It sits within the wider heading of Photographs; Remote-sensing images. The name also appears as Air photographs, Air photos, Airphotos.
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Photographs of the earth taken from aircraft. For photographs taken from beyond the earth's atmosphere, use "space photographs." For photographs of celestial bodies or astronomical phenomena, use "astrophotographs." It sits within the wider heading of Photographs; Remote-sensing images. The name also appears as Air photographs, Air photos, Airphotos.
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Photographs of the earth taken from aircraft. For photographs taken from beyond the earth's atmosphere, use "space photographs." For photographs of celestial bodies or astronomical phenomena, use "astrophotographs.". Established heading in Library of Congress Subject Headings.
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Aerial photographs and satellite images, 1995. photographs in Forest Surveys, Journal of Forestry, 1948. CULTURAL HERITAGE DOCUMENTATION AND INTEGRATED GEOMATICS TECHNIQUES IN AN EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT: CASE BOIS-DU-LUC (BELGIUM), The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2013.
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Accurate delineation of individual tree crowns in tropical forests from aerial RGB imagery using Mask R‐CNN (2023) — DataCite (Wiley)
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