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PHOTOGRAPHER, AERIAL

Specialty Definition: PHOTOGRAPHER, AERIAL

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Photographs segments of earth and other subject material from aircraft to produce pictures used in surveying, mapping, volumetric surveying, or related purposes, such as recording effects of pollution or natural disasters, determining condition of crops and timberland, and planning cities or other large scale projects: Sets up and mounts camera in aircraft. Confers with pilot regarding plotted course, speed, altitude, and area to be photographed. Communicates with pilot during flight to ensure adherence to flight plan or make adjustments to equipment to compensate for changes. Calculates number of exposures and time lapse between them, using standard formulas to determine requirements for adequate area coverage. Adjusts camera shutter speed, lens aperture opening, and focus. Adjusts automatic exposure interval on camera equipped with time lapse control or times intervals with stopwatch and manually trips shutter. Maintains camera in level position and oriented to flight path when making photographs for mapping or surveying. May match individual photographs to form terrain map of photographed area. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: PHOTOGRAPHER, AERIAL

Specialty definitions using "PHOTOGRAPHER, AERIAL": director of flight operations, director of photography, DIRECTOR, PHOTOGRAMMETRY FLIGHT OPERATIONS. (references)

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Alternative Orthography: PHOTOGRAPHER, AERIAL


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 48 4F 54 4F 47 52 41 50 48 45 52 2C      41 45 52 49 41 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01001000 01001111 01010100 01001111 01000111 01010010 01000001 01010000 01001000 01000101 01010010 00101100 00100000 01000001 01000101 01010010 01001001 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#72 &#79 &#84 &#79 &#71 &#82 &#65 &#80 &#72 &#69 &#82 &#44 &#32 &#65 &#69 &#82 &#73 &#65 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0048 004F 0054 004F 0047 0052 0041 0050 0048 0045 0052 002C      0041 0045 0052 0049 0041 004C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

504249544941523550423952142353952433546

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