How are aerial photographs useful?

Answer 1

Two main reasons:-

Firstly to improve on a ground-based photograph. For example, say you photographed a house to advertise it for sale. From the ground or, even a Google Aerial shot is very 'flat' and unflattering. Move the camera off the ground so that you get a bit of an angle and the image immediately becomes more appealing.

Secondly to obtain shots that are either impossible or impractical/too costly. For instance, consider a proposed development for a Property Developer. It wants a view from the future Penthouse, but currently there is a pile of rubble on the ground. A ground or mast-based camera cannot get high enough but a UAV with a camera can fly to the required height and snap away merrily. Similarly, if a building such as a Church let fall some masonry from up high, a steeplejack or Scaffolder could get up there, but a quicker solution could be an aerial craft to fly up and relay inspection images to ground allowing for a rapid damage assessment to be made.

Answer 2

Thank heaven for cartographers, they are my hero's, and you should get down on your knees and kiss their feet.

Answer 3

Aerial Photos are useful because, say you are on the internet and you want to see what a place on the other side of the world looks likes you could just look at an aerial view of it.

Answer 4

Aerial Photography is taking a picture from above to get a "bird's eye view". One of it's uses in geology is to interpret earth's surface and extract data from the photographs.

Answer 5

they r helpful as they are made such they go into the space and dont get burrn and get us valuable information about universe

Answer 6

It can show the applicable and right location in an easy way without exploring and surveying in a hard ways.

Answer 7

Aerial means it was taken from a plane. Satellite photos were obviously taken much higher up.