The art of aerial photography, in which photographs of the Earth’s surface are made with specialized roll-film cameras carried aloft on balloons, airplanes, and spacecraft, is an important segment of a broader generic technology, remote sensing. The film is often replaced with an electronic sensor, the sensor system may be mounted on an aircraft or spacecraft, and the subject may be the surface of a distant planet instead of Earth. Remote sensing is used to gather military intelligence; to provide most of the information for plotting maps; for evaluating
natural resources minerals, petroleum, soils, crops, and water and natural disasters; and for planning cities, highways, dams, pipelines, and airfields. Aerial photography normally provides higher ground resolution and geometric accuracy than the imagery obtained with electronic sensors, especially when covering small areas, so it continues as the foundation for mapmaking, urban planning, and some other applications.
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