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ˌphototoˈpography
Also with hyphen.
[f. photo- 2 + topography.]
A system of surveying which employs photography as well as the usual methods.
The word has largely given way to photogrammetry.
1893Geogr. Jrnl. I. 89 Photo-topography. 1895Rep. U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey 1893 ii. 42 During the Franco-Prussian war phototopography was called into service by the German army. 1922Geogr. Jrnl. LIX. 274 The methods of Phototopography developed by Laussedat in France and by Deville in Canada..depend on the measurement of identical points on pairs of plates taken on determined azimuths at trigonometrical points. 1970Canad. Cartographer VII. 19/2 The ground photo-topography continued in the mountains of British Columbia.
Hence ˌphototoˈpographer, one who is skilled in phototopography; ˌphototopoˈgraphic, -ical adjs., of, pertaining to, or using phototopography; ˌphototopoˈgraphically adv.
1895Rep. U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey 1893 ii. 45 A phototopographic survey of the Oasis Gassr Dachel in the Libyan desert. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 95/2 The field work of a photo-topographic party consists primarily in execution of a triangulation by the usual methods. Ibid., The photo-topographical survey. 1906J. A. Flemer Elem. Treat. Phototopogr. Methods xii. 387 The phototopographer..can in a few good days, cover a larger territory than is possible with any other surveying method. Ibid. 390 A large territory may be reconnoitered phototopographically in a comparatively short time. 1926A. L. Higgins Phototopography ii. 42 Phototopographical instruments. 1970Canad. Cartographer VII. 18/1 During the development of the photo-topographic work it became the practice to rule a perspective grid onto the print of the photograph to assist..in positioning horizontal detail. |