Update
02-01-2013
Content Type
Student Resource
Grade Level
Sixth grade, Seventh grade, Eighth grade
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Website
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Digital Orthophotos explains the difference between an aerial photograph and a digital orthophoto. It gives a side-by-side comparison of two images of the same area and discusses how image displacements caused by tilting of the camera and topography must be rectified in order to produce a photographic map that is true to scale.