photoclinometry
/ˌfəʊtəʊklɪˈnɒmɪtri/ /ˌfəʊtə(ʊ)klʌɪˈnɒmɪtri/noun
The process of deriving topographical information about a region from measurements of the brightness distribution in aerial photographs of it.
Origin
1960s; earliest use found in Surveyor III. From photo- + clinometry. Attributed in quot. 1974 at main sense and elsewhere to J. F. McCauley, but this has not been traced.
- metachronism
- metachronous
- metachrony
- metachrosis
- metacoel
- metacoele
- metacoelom
- metacoelome
- metacognition
- metacognitive
- metacommunication
- metacommunicational
- metacommunicative
- metacompiler
- meta-compound
- metaconal
- metacone
- metaconid
- metacontrast
- metaconule
- metacresol
- metacritique
- metacromion
- metacryst
- metacultural