Photographs of the ground taken by high flying aircraft were used in wartime to obtain information about enemy territory. After World War II, air photography became the chief method of mapping the detail of the land. Because overlapping photographs viewed through a stereoscope produce a three dimensional image, air photographs can also be used to measure the height of points on the land.
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