The company GE Geospatial, an aerial photography company, carries out one small piece of this program.

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Countries that are currently tearing themselves apart in real life over issues far greater than mismatched aerial photography.

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Disaster averted, Corcoran decided to parlay his aviation training into a new aerial photography company called Top Flight Photos in Beaver, Pa.

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Later, when he extended his repertoire to posting selections from databases of aerial photography, the Department of Homeland Security began calling him and politely asking him to stop.

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To start with, they will use a combination of aerial photography, field measurements, and ground- and satellite-based sensors to compile a map of all the thermokarstic areas of Alaska.

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Once there, they use aerial photography and remote cameras in combination with depth-finding and global-positioning satellite technology (as well as some first-hand testing of the waves) to measure the waves and map the contours of the ocean floor under the breaks.

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