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Oblique lidar and photo of berm

By St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center 2011 (approx.)
Side-by-side imagery, one showing a computer generated map of a berm and the other showing a photo of the berm from sky.
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Oblique perspective of the elevation point cloud acquired by the lidar system of the oil-spill mitigation berm and northernmost Chandeleur Islands. The aerial photograph (above right) was taken in January 2011 at about the same orientation, while the berm was still under construction. Lidar example by Dustin Kimbrow; aerial photograph courtesy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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Public Domain.