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unusual facts about Aerial survey


Camera mapping

Aerial survey, map production from stereo photographs captured from the air


Computer stereo vision

Scientific applications for digital stereo vision include the extraction of information from aerial surveys, for calculation of contour maps or even geometry extraction for 3D building mapping, or calculation of 3D heliographical information such as obtained by the NASA STEREO project.

Edward Connellan

While doing aerial surveys to assess the viability of an air service in 1938 Connellan picked out the land for the pastoral station, Narwietooma Station, he later established in 1943.


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Abrams P-1 Explorer

It was designed by aerial survey pioneer Talbert Abrams to best suit his needs for a stable aircraft with excellent visibility for this kind of work.

Ernest Mustard

Mustard was also responsible for the first aerial survey of Australia's Barrier Reef.

Gloster Survey

In 1926, the Aircraft Operating Company, an official contractor to the British Ordnance Survey for aerial survey work overseas, required a replacement for the converted Airco DH.9s that formed the majority of its fleet.

Neolithic circular enclosures in Central Europe

The earliest roundel to be described was the one at Krpy (Kropáčova Vrutice), Bohemia, by Woldřich 1886, but it was only with systematic aerial survey in the 1980s and the 1990s that their ubiquity in the region became apparent.

Operation Yasi Assist

An AP-3C Orion configured for Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation aerial survey mapped the damage across a wide area of Queensland.