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[remote sensing]
In satellite imagery, the number of degrees that the sensor varies from a vertical view when pointing directly downward from the platform. Also called angle of obliquity or elevation angle.
[photogrammetry]
In imagery, the angle between the vertical from the sensor's perspective center to a point directly below the optics—or nadir—and another point on the ground.
