Aerial photography is a remote sensing method that acquires overlapping vertical or oblique images from airborne platforms such as crewed aircraft, UAVs, or balloons for quantitative spatial analysis. It relies on calibrated cameras, controlled flight paths, and known imaging geometry to enable photogrammetric processing, including orthorectification, stereo viewing, and three-dimensional reconstruction of terrain and structures. In research, aerial photography supports mapping, land-use and land-cover classification, environmental monitoring, precision agriculture, and change detection, often serving as intermediate-resolution data between ground surveys and satellite imagery, and is frequently integrated with GPS/INS and ground control points to achieve high positional accuracy.
Humans have always imagined the natural world. From Ice Age cave paintings to the modern day, we depict the animals and landscapes we value—and ignore those we don't.
Ecology
Apr 4, 2026
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Researchers have used artificial intelligence to develop a new tool for assessing earthquake damage, a leap that could ultimately help first responders in making critical rescue decisions, suggests a new study. The team's ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 25, 2026
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A new study has demonstrated that we now have the tools to study the incredibly complex ecosystems of caves in near real-time with field-portable assays. The study was published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Ecology
Mar 23, 2026
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As climate change reshapes Arctic food webs, ringed seals will swim into risky polar bear territory if the menu is varied enough. This is the central finding of a new study published in Ecology Letters. UBC researchers tracked ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 18, 2026
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If you told me a decade ago that I'd become an expert in mapping cemeteries, I would've laughed and been very confused about the dramatic turn my professional life must've taken at some point.
Environment
Feb 15, 2026
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From fundamental biological units as tiny as genes to complex societies, ecological systems rely on cooperation. All manner of organisms can benefit from working together to survive in a dog-eat-dog world. "Mutualism is a ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 9, 2026
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Aspens and standing dead trees, which are important to forest biodiversity, can be reliably identified from openly available aerial imagery using methods developed by researchers from the University of Helsinki and the University ...
Ecology
Dec 10, 2025
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A subtle change in how climate risk is communicated—mentioning a person's local area—can significantly increase attention to disaster preparedness messages, according to a new study by researchers at the Stockholm School ...
Environment
Dec 8, 2025
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Mutations drive evolution, but they can also be risky. New research led by plant biologists at the University of California, Davis, published Nov. 10 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveals how plants ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 12, 2025
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Researchers from the University of Toronto's John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design have conducted an in-depth analysis of green rooftops in Toronto, providing a framework for future green roof planning ...
Environment
Oct 21, 2025
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