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relief displacement
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[photogrammetry, data conversion]
The radial distance between where an object appears in an image to where it should be located according to a planimetric coordinate system. This dislocation of ground features in an image with relief displacement is due to terrain relief. Relief displacement is corrected by imagery orthorectification.