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[photogrammetry]
In imagery, the mathematical relationship between the coordinates of a point in three-dimensional space and its projection onto the two-dimensional image plane of a pinhole camera. Pinhole describes where the image point, ground point, and perspective center converge colinearly. The perspective geometry is distortion-free.