University of Arizona Orthophotos
An orthophoto is an photograph that has been orthogonally corrected to remove distortions based upon viewing angle. The objects in an orthophoto appear as if they are in your direct line of vision. Orthophotos are very useful because they are really a model and a map, beyond being just a picture. They can be used in measuring distance, scaling objects, designing routes, etc. They can also be used to create 3D visualizations of locations and buildings, as in this project.
University of Arizona
The orthophoto is scaled down to be viewable on this webpage.
Resolution is approximately 2 meters per pixel.
To download the higher resolution image, click below:
uofa5_2.tif (6224270 bytes)
Science Concourse
The Science Concourse, or Science Mall, is in the lower left of the image above. The images below focus on the Science Concourse...
The Science Mall is depicted in extremely hi-resolution detail in a
large number of black and white TIFF images.
The two sections that cover the Science Concourse take up 23MB each.
Extreme Detail!
This portion of one such orthophoto clearly shows bicycles, trees,
7benches, motorcycles, curbs, streetlights,
ash trays, shadows--even cracks between tiles in the sidewalk!
Below are scaled down representations of the two orthophotos that cover the Science Mall.
To download the highest resolution orthophotos of the Science Concourse, refer to the links below:
sht33.tif (23,051,343 bytes) sht34.tif (23,051,343 bytes)
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