An aerial image library is a collection of
aerial imagery
Aerial photography (or airborne imagery) is the taking of photographs from an aircraft or other airborne platforms. When taking motion pictures, it is also known as aerial videography.
Platforms for aerial photography include fixed-wing aircra ...
. The imagery is taken from cameras placed on aircraft, which capture images of the structures and features of the land below. These libraries can contain millions of individual images which depict geographic areas in incredible detail.
Aerial image libraries can provide a wealth of information to users of the imagery. Governments often use such libraries to maintain current records of
construction
Construction is a general term meaning the art and science to form Physical object, objects, systems, or organizations,"Construction" def. 1.a. 1.b. and 1.c. ''Oxford English Dictionary'' Second Edition on CD-ROM (v. 4.0) Oxford University Pr ...
and in conducting
property assessment.
Insurance
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companies can also use aerial image libraries to maintain records of
natural disaster-related damages.
Utilities
A public utility company (usually just utility) is an organization that maintains the infrastructure for a public service (often also providing a service using that infrastructure). Public utilities are subject to forms of public control and ...
companies may also keep libraries of
electric corridors and
pipeline
Pipeline may refer to:
Electronics, computers and computing
* Pipeline (computing), a chain of data-processing stages or a CPU optimization found on
** Instruction pipelining, a technique for implementing instruction-level parallelism within a s ...
networks to plan expansion or maintenance.
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Using computer software, aerial image libraries can stitch together images to create lifelike maps of geographic regions. These maps can be either orthogonal (top-down images) or oblique
Oblique may refer to:
* an alternative name for the character usually called a slash (punctuation) ( / )
*Oblique angle, in geometry
*Oblique triangle, in geometry
* Oblique lattice, in geometry
* Oblique leaf base, a characteristic shape of the b ...
(images captured at an angle). If these images are geo-referenced, users can determine precisely where the structures and features depicted are located on the earth.
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