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Article: Eye-in-the-sky photographs
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- Jerusalem Post
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- December 8, 1996
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David Brauner
Jerusalem Post
12-08-1996
Aerial photography is nothing new. The French portraitist Nadar took the first aerial photographs from a balloon in 1858.
In the American Civil War (1861-65), the Union Army successfully used photographic reconnaissance from a balloon 350 meters overhead to pinpoint Confederate positions in the battle for Richmond, Virginia, in 1862. By World War I, airborne pictures of the enemy were commonplace.
With the coming of the space age, photographs of the earth could be taken from altitudes of between 60 and 300 meters. Despite the distance, the quality of the images is mind-boggling. It may be an exaggeration, but some analysts have said that the pictures ...