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A method of collecting information by utilizing aerial photography. or from remote sensing technology using other bands of the electromagnetic spectrum, such as infrared, gamma-ray, or ultraviolet.
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The making of maps based on an aerial survey of the terrain.
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The assigning of coordinates to points on the ground by use of aerial photographs.
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(pseudoscience) A so-called science of energy that has no mass equivalent.
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A plot of altitudes produced by an altigraph.
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An altimeter that makes a recording on a chart.
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The art of measuring the distance of far-off objects.
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(astronomy) The application of photonics technology to astronomy
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The acquisition of astronomical data using video cameras and video imaging techniques.
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(rare, archaic) An instrument for the instantaneous self-recording or printing of time.
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Related to aerial photography.
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The art of surveying a region or district.
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The production of chromocollotypes
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A chronogram having the form of a distich.
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Measurement with a chronograph.
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Alternative form of chronometry [The science of the measurement of time]
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An expert in chronometry.
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(historical) An instrument that transmits the correct time to distant points by means of electricity.
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The measurement of very small time intervals by means of a chronoscope
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Motion picture photography.
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(historical) An integrating anemometer.
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The use of two instruments to calibrate each other
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(wireless telegraphy, disused) A detector of electromagnetic waves.
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A sensor which measures the intensity of light, often used to start and stop electrical equipment (motorized doors, etc.).
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(historical) A sciagraph.
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(transitive, dated) To photograph by sunlight.
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The system of signalling by heliograph.
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(surveying) An instrument, employed in triangulation, that uses a mirror to reflect sunlight toward another, very distant, surveyor.
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A picture obtained by the process of heliotypy.
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Rare spelling of hologram. [A three-dimensional image of an object created by holography.]
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(historical) A method for photographically reproducing line drawings.
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The scientific description of instruments that show the time.
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The study of time, and the art, science and technology of timekeeping and timekeepers (such as clocks, watches and sundials).
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The art or practice of measuring time by hours and subordinate divisions.
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the art of constructing ground plans
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(microscopy) A transparent oil of a specific refractive index and viscosity used to increase the resolving power of a microscope by filling the gap between the objective lens and the specimen.
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A device used to draw lines parallel to an existing one
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(dated) A camera for making chronophotographs.
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(parapsychology, photography) A technique for recording photographic images of corona discharges and hence, supposedly, the auras of living creatures.
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(surveying, archaeology) The process of measuring levels to establish heights and altitudes.
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the perceptual strength or amplitude of sound pressure, measured in sones or phons
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(optics) Describing a confocal macro lens
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A close-up photograph, showing the fine detail of something.
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A form of hallucination where objects appear larger than they really are.
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A rectangular plot, within a managed forest, in which every tree is identified, numbered and recorded
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A camera lucida used in megalography
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A device designed for analysing and plotting the frequency characteristics of ethnic music.
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The theory of measurement.
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The measurement of time by an instrument.
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A text or photographic image that has been reduced in size to that of a typographical dot in order to escape detection by unintended recipients.
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A device used to magnify and read these sheets.
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A machine for producing microfilm.
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(electronics) The phenomenon where certain components in electronic devices transform mechanical vibrations into an unwanted electrical signal.
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Any of many very small prisms used, either to form a reflective surface, or to form an area in a camera's viewfinder that blurs if the image is not precisely in focus
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A very small image projector that can be held in the hand.
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Any device used to read microfilm or microfiche
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An optical instrument used for observing small objects.
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The production of the map of terrain from a digital aerial image
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The use of sensors to track and record the position, velocity, acceleration and impulse of a movement.
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Fine lines ruled on glass in a series of groups of different closeness of line, and used to test the power of a microscope.
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(mathematics) A diagram in which the relationship between three variables is represented by a straight line or curve for each variable; the value of the third variable corresponding to particular values of the first two is obtained by drawing a straight line through the points on the first two curves that represent particular values of the first two variables and noting the point at which the line intersects the third line or curve.
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The determination and positioning of satellite orbits by a form of geodesy
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(surveying) A machine for use in making topographical maps, operated by being pushed across country, and recording distances and elevations.
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An early TV camera tube. (Abbreviation of orthoconoscope.)
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(countable, imaging) An orthophoto.
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An instrument used to determine the true contour and dimensions of any internal organ or other object rendered visible by X-rays, the latter being deflected so as to be made parallel.
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An orthographic projection.
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An aerial photograph that has been geometrically corrected (orthorectified) such that the scale of the photograph is uniform, meaning that the photo can be considered equivalent to a map.
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Alternative form of orthophoto [An aerial photograph that has been geometrically corrected (orthorectified) such that the scale of the photograph is uniform, meaning that the photo can be considered equivalent to a map.]
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(photography) Geometrical correction of aerial photographs so that displayed distances are uniform and can be measured like a map.
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The orthophoto that is produced by this process.
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To process an aerial photograph so as to geometrically correct it such that the scale of the photograph is uniform and it can be measured as a map is.
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Curve fitting the resonant peaks in an oscillation spectrum.
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(acoustics) A unit of apparent loudness, equal in number to the intensity in decibels of a 1,000-hertz tone judged to be as loud as the sound being measured.
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A surveying instrument used to plot lines and measure directions between terrestrial features from photographs
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The use of aerial photography to interpret geologic features
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A phototheodolite, or a camera designed for use in photogrammetry.
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The making of maps from photographs, especially from aerial surveying.
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The identification, description and measurement of objects in photographs, especially in aerial photographs, for geologic, cartographic or military purposes
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Heliography (photography of the sun), especially as undertaken using a photoheliograph.
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identified by means of photoidentification
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(archaic) One who studies or expounds the laws of light.
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A quadrat that is photographed for later analysis of species content
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Synonym of retinoscope, but especially one that uses a particular form of light (such as infrared)
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A theodolite with an attached camera.
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One who carries out phototopography.
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The surveying and mapping of a terrain based solely on terrestrial photographs.
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A transect that is part of a photosurvey
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triangulation using photogrammetry
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A form of photolithography using a zinc plate
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(historical) A device to facilitate the production of faithful profiles of human faces.
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Alternative form of planimetry [(mathematics) The measurement of distances, angles and areas on a plane, especially on a map or image]
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(mathematics) The measurement of distances, angles and areas on a plane, especially on a map or image
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The measurement or construction of a plane surface.
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A sheet of plastic embedded with microscopic crystals of herapathite or similarly acting material, so that light passing through it is polarised.
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An instrument for automatically recording the profile of the ground it traverses.
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(orthophotography) One of multiple orthorectified images for a single location, each representing a different DEM (digital elevation model).
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A photogram of the kind produced by Man Ray.
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An instance of an experiment or examination using such an apparatus.
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the production of a skymap
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(photography) A photograph of the paths of the Sun across the sky created with pinhole photography.
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(photography) the practice of creating solargraphs; creating photographs of the path of the Sun across the sky using a pinhole camera and exposure periods measured in days or months
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An algorithm that localizes sounds in physical space.
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(astronomy) an instrument that produced monochromatic photographs of the sun using light at a selected wavelength
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A scientific apparatus of the 1930s consisting of a spectrohelioscope and early video camera, used to monitor events on the surface of the Sun.
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An instrument used for observing solar radiation.
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An image produced by spectrophotography.
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A device used to measure the curvature of a surface, such as a lens.
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The measurement of books in terms of how many lines of text they contain.
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Alternative form of stripogram
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Alternative form of stripogram
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(historical) A surveying instrument combining tachymeter and alidade.
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Fitted with a telemeter
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Synonym of telephotograph
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A kind of photometer that incorporates a telescope.
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(chiefly astronomy) Seen by means of a telescope; only visible through a telescope.
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(biology) A periodic biological system.
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(chiefly medicine) Any of various imaging or surveying techniques in which the three-dimensional positions of an array of points is recorded.
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A device used to measure the range of motion of a joint
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A single assembly of three cameras at differing angles, used for aerial photographic surveys.
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(mathematics) The study and use of ultrametric systems
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(astronomy, uncountable) The measurement of the constellations.
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Based on the medium of video.
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The measurement of three-dimensional positions (and their movement) by means of sequences of two or more video images.
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A display in audio equipment that represents the loudness of the signal.
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An optical device that separates randomly polarized or unpolarized light into two orthogonal linearly polarized outgoing beams.
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A device that plots a two-dimensional graph of the relationship between variables.
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