Definition of "aerial photography" [aerial photography]

• The activity or technique of photographing the earth's surface from an aircraft, rocket, etc; such photographs collectively. (noun)

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• "Frances Griffith’s discovery of this timber circle echoed that of Woodhenge sixty years earlier by Gilbert Insall, a distinguished First World War pilot and one of the pioneers of aerial photography in archaeology."
• "IMU provides the research vessel, NASA the satellite imagery and GSDG the aerial photography and laser altitude measurements."