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Article: Photography, High-Altitude
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- Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, andSecurity
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Photography, High-Altitude
The United States conducts, and has conducted, operations in high-altitude photography for a number of purposes. In addition to intelligence-gathering operations such as that of the CORONA program in the 1960s, civilian undertakings such as those of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have an obvious, if unspoken, intelligence application. High-altitude photography, which offers several advantages over ground-based surveillance, has evolved over the years, along with the equipment: from balloons to prop planes, jets, and satellites.
High-Altitude Photography and its Applications
High-altitude photography enables the coverage of large areas
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for example, ...