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Aerial: Antenna.

Aerial Perspective: The distance or depth effect caused by atmospheric haze. Haze creates a large amount of extraneous ultra-violet light to which all photographic emulsions are sensitive.

Nadar: Is the name adopted by the first aerial photographer, g. F. Tournachon, who took photographs from an air balloon.

Multi-Band Photography: Is a method of aerial photography using cameras and scanners which are sensitive to different wavelengths in the spectrum to record different subject characteristics.

Atmospheric Perspective: Suggesting perspective in a painting with changes in tone and colour between foreground and background. The background is usually blurred and hues are less intense.

Special Use Airspace (SUA): Airspace of defined dimensions identified by an area on the surface of the earth wherein activities must be confined because of their nature and/or wherein limitations may be imposed upon ai . . . View Full Definition

Submarine Canyon: An underwater canyon, carved into the continental shelf. These can be carved by turbidity currents or carved subaerially during a time when sea level was lower.

Sky: The vault-like apparent surface against which all aerial objects are seen from the earth.

Orthophotography: Aerial photographs that more precisely show the features of the landscape, including those that might be important for agriculture such as slope or size of gullies, because they are correcte . . . View Full Definition

Remote Sensing: The act of detecting objects when the sensor is not in direct contact: commonly refers to using aerial photographs to observe conditions on the Earth’s surface. In agriculture, this technolo . . . View Full Definition