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  2. Unmanned aerial vehicle - Wikipedia

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    An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or unmanned aircraft system (UAS), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft with no human pilot, crew, or passengers onboard.

  3. Aerial photography - Wikipedia

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    Aerial photography (or airborne imagery) is the taking of photographs from an aircraft or other airborne platforms. [1] When taking motion pictures , it is also known as aerial videography .

  4. Buckeye system - Wikipedia

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    The Buckeye system (also called BuckEye) is an operational airborne surveying system that provides high-resolution spatial imagery over an area of interest to support military operations involved with intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance.

  5. Aerial survey - Wikipedia

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    Aerial survey is a method of collecting geomatics or other imagery data using airplanes, helicopters, UAVs, balloons, or other aerial methods. Typical data collected includes aerial photography , Lidar , remote sensing (using various visible and invisible bands of the electromagnetic spectrum , such as infrared , gamma , or ultraviolet ) and ...

  6. Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk - Wikipedia

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    The common data link can also be used for direct down link of imagery when the UAV is within line-of-sight of compatible ground stations. For dense flight areas the autonomous navigation is switched off and the RQ-4 is remote controlled via the satellite link by pilots on the ground who are supplied with the same instrument data and who carry ...

  7. Gorgon Stare - Wikipedia

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    Increment 2 provides a four-fold increase in coverage and twice the imagery resolution thanks to ARGUS technology; ARGUS is essentially 368 five-megapixel smartphone cameras clustered together and peering through four telescopic lenses and is produced by BAE Systems, while the IR arrays are produced by Exelis Inc. and are the largest available ...

  8. Geospatial intelligence - Wikipedia

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    Geospatial Intelligence data sources include imagery and mapping data, whether collected by commercial satellite, government satellite, aircraft (such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAV] or reconnaissance aircraft), or by other means, such as maps and commercial databases, census information, GPS waypoints, utility schematics, or any discrete ...

  9. Unmanned aerial photogrammetric survey - Wikipedia

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    The unmanned aerial photogrammetric survey is the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to take photos for use in photogrammetry, the science of making measurements from photographs.