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The Face of the Earth as Seen from the Air
Willis Thomas Lee and Wolfgang Louis Gottfried Joerg
The airplane gave humanity a wholly new way to see the land. Willis Lee shows how photographs taken from above reveal rivers, faults, and landforms invisible from the ground, and how to read them. A pioneering look at geology and geography from the sky. Rise above the landscape and learn to read the earth from the air.
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38 chapters
- 1THE FACE OF THE EARTH AS SEEN FROM THE AIR
- 2CONTENTS
- 3LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4INTRODUCTION
- 5Airplane Photography: Its Development and Application
- 6Acknowledgments
- 7CHAPTER I THE VIEWPOINT (Figs. 1 to 4)
- 8Oblique and Vertical Airplane Photographs
- 9Elements to Be Recorded
- 10How to Read Airplane Photographs
- 11Failure of Air Photographs to Show Relief, and Measures to Remedy This Defect
- 12CHAPTER II FAMILIAR SCENES FROM A NEW ANGLE (Figs. 1, 3, and 4)
- 13CHAPTER III ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPE GARDENING, AND ENGINEERING (Figs. 5 to 14)
- 14Architecture and Landscape Gardening
- 15Engineering Projects Covering Large Areas
- 16CHAPTER IV THE MOSAIC (Figs. 13 and 22)
- 17CHAPTER V GENERAL ASPECTS OF THE SURFACE AS SEEN FROM THE AIR (Figs. 12 to 18)
- 18CHAPTER VI MARSHES AND MARSH DRAINAGE (Figs. 19 to 27)
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