tri·met·ro·gon

(trī-mĕt′rə-gŏn′)

A system of aerial photography in which one vertical and two oblique photographs are simultaneously taken for use in topographic mapping.

[tri- + Metrogon, trademark for a kind of camera lens.]

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trimetrogon

(traɪˈmɛtrəˌɡɒn)

(Photography)

a. a method of aerial photography for rapid topographic mapping, in which one vertical and two oblique photographs are taken simultaneously

b. (as modifier): trimetrogon photography.

[from tri- + metro-, from Greek metron measure + -gon]

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References in periodicals archive

In the 1946-47 southern summer, Martin Mariner seaplanes and other aircraft operating from aircraft carriers, took some 65,000 aerial photographs with trimetrogon cameras, covering nearly half of the Antarctic coastline (Rose & Conger 1980, 249-250).

Mapping a stateless continent

Photogrammetric rectification of oblique Trimetrogon imagery.

Half a century of measurements of glaciers on Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada

Another eight maps illustrate the expedition routes, territorial claims, and Operation Highjump's trimetrogon photogrammetric mapping of one and a half million square miles of Antarctica.

Robert Clancy, John Manning & Henk Brolsma, Mapping Antarctica: A five hundred year record of discovery

This oblique (trimetrogon) coverage was completed by the Royal Canadian Air Force in the early 1950s, and the coverage of vertical photography was completed in the late 1950s.

Remote-sensing resources for monitoring glacier fluctuations on Axel Heiberg Island

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