For more information contact the New Zealand National Topo/Hydro
Authority. Please note: the metadata presented here is prior to changes agreed with ICSM members and is
therefore subject to alteration. Please read the Explanatory Page
for explanations of the fields, abbreviations and symbols which have been used.
| Object_class | Entity_class | Additional entity class | Object Inheritance | |
| orthophoto | Not available | Not applicable | image | |
| Object description | ||||
| Digital orthophoto; a digital image which has the properties of an orthographic projection. It is derived from a digitised perspective aerial photograph by differential rectification so that image displacements caused by camera tilt and terrain relief are removed. | ||||
| Map image | Digital data image | |||
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| Comments | ||||
| Orthophotos are used for the maintenance of NZTopo data. See LINZ wed site for download. www.linz.govt.nz/services/topo-hydro/pages/topo/aerialandorthophotos/orthoindexmap.html | ||||
| Entity Source | Classification | Seed class | Last updated | Edition number |
| Not available | 50k topo | not_applicable | 23/11/2001 | 2 |
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