Pictometry
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Pictometry International Corp. is a Henrietta, New York
-based company that provides detailed aerial photography
. Its images are taken at a 40 degree angle from low-flying airplanes. Its Electronic Field Study software allows a variety of measurements to be taken directly from the image, including height, distance and area as well as elevation and bearing. Contour line
s can be dynamically created by the user. Its images can be overlaid with shapefiles and GIS information can be exported from the images as well.
The oblique
photographs shows buildings, infrastructure, and land from all sides. Pictometry also shoots looking straight down from the airplane. In general, this approach results in much more visual detail than using satellite
photography, because there are multiple perspectives, with overlap resulting in as many as 12 to 20 images of the same location.
The company's most numerous 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 9-1-1
), and property assessment. It also has applications in insurance, real estate, roofing, solar, engineering, and utilities. Microsoft
licenses Pictometry imagery for the "Bird's Eye" feature of their Virtual Earth
service.
The company estimates that 80% of the U.S. population is covered by a Pictometry image. These images may be directly licensed by Pictometry.
Since 2005, Pictometry established an international division which licenses its technology to partners in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia, Australia, North and South America.
Henrietta, New York
Henrietta is a town in Monroe County, New York, United States. It is a suburb of Rochester. The population was 42,581 at the 2010 census. Established in 1818, the town is named after Henrietta Laura Pulteney, Countess of Bath, daughter of Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet, a major British...
-based company that provides detailed aerial photography
Aerial photography
Aerial photography is the taking of photographs of the ground from an elevated position. The term usually refers to images in which the camera is not supported by a ground-based structure. Cameras may be hand held or mounted, and photographs may be taken by a photographer, triggered remotely or...
. Its images are taken at a 40 degree angle from low-flying airplanes. Its Electronic Field Study software allows a variety of measurements to be taken directly from the image, including height, distance and area as well as elevation and bearing. Contour line
Contour line
A contour line of a function of two variables is a curve along which the function has a constant value. In cartography, a contour line joins points of equal elevation above a given level, such as mean sea level...
s can be dynamically created by the user. Its images can be overlaid with shapefiles and GIS information can be exported from the images as well.
The oblique
Oblique
Oblique may refer to:*Oblique angle, in geometry, an angle that is not a multiple of 90 degrees*Oblique angle, synonym for Dutch angle, a cinematographic technique*Oblique , by jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson...
photographs shows buildings, infrastructure, and land from all sides. Pictometry also shoots looking straight down from the airplane. In general, this approach results in much more visual detail than using satellite
Satellite
In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an object which has been placed into orbit by human endeavour. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon....
photography, because there are multiple perspectives, with overlap resulting in as many as 12 to 20 images of the same location.
The company's most numerous 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 9-1-1
9-1-1
9-1-1 is the emergency telephone number for the North American Numbering Plan .It is one of eight N11 codes.The use of this number is for emergency circumstances only, and to use it for any other purpose can be a crime.-History:In the earliest days of telephone technology, prior to the...
), and property assessment. It also has applications in insurance, real estate, roofing, solar, engineering, and utilities. Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
licenses Pictometry imagery for the "Bird's Eye" feature of their Virtual Earth
Virtual earth
Virtual earth may refer to:* Virtual ground - the node of an electrical circuit that is maintained at a steady reference potential, without being connected directly to the reference potential....
service.
The company estimates that 80% of the U.S. population is covered by a Pictometry image. These images may be directly licensed by Pictometry.
Since 2005, Pictometry established an international division which licenses its technology to partners in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia, Australia, North and South America.