Popular from the 1940s to 1970s, strip aerial photography was once used internationally for aerial mapping and surveys of highway degradation, but has been replaced by satellite photography, which is less expensive and less prone to image artifacts that required complex post-processing to remove.
Aerial photography, a technique popular from the 1940s to 1970s, was once employed for aerial mapping and highway degradation surveys, but has been replaced by satellite imagery, which is less expensive and less prone to image artifacts that require complex post-processing.