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Pictometry International is a Rochester, New York-based company that provides detailed aerial photography. Its images are taken at a 40 degree angle using a patented process. Its Electronic Field Study software allows a variety of measurements to be taken directly from the image including height, distance and area with 99.5% accuracy as well as elevation and bearing. Its locational accuracy puts you on the right spot within 2-5 meters. A unique feature is that its oblique images can be overlayed with shapefiles and GIS information can be exported from the images as well.
Its most frequent customers are state and local governments, which use images of cities, counties and entire states for such things as planning and development, emergency response (Police, Fire and 911) and property assessment. It also has many applications in insurance, real estate, AVM, civil engineering, and utilities.
The oblique photographs shows buildings, infrastructure, land from all sides. Pictometry also shoots directly overhead. In general, it is much more detail than using satellite photography, because there are multiple perspectives, and with overlap, results in as many as 12 to 30 images of the same location.
Public Availability
Microsoft's Live Local mapping web site includes access to Pictometry images selected cities via its "Bird's Eye" feature. Users can scroll the images and select specific angles to view.
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