Orthophoto

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

An orthophoto, orthophotograph, orthoimage or orthoimagery is an aerial photograph or satellite imagery geometrically corrected ("orthorectified") such that the scale is uniform: the photo or image follows a given map projection.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Orthophoto”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Francesco Quarenghi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.