Patent ID: 7995799

Claim:
A computerized system for displaying and making measurements based upon captured oblique images, comprising: a computer system executing image display and analysis software reading: a plurality of captured oblique images having corresponding geo-location data; and a data table storing ground plane data that closely approximates at least a portion of terrain depicted within said captured oblique images; at least one display device adapted to display one or more of the plurality of captured oblique images; and at least one input device adapted to permit selection of one or more points within the plurality of captured oblique images, wherein the image display and analysis software when executed by the computer system causes the computer system to display at least one of the captured and geo-located oblique images; wherein the image display and analysis software is adapted to, in response to selection of two or more points via the input device, select one or more intermediate points positioned between the two or more selected points to thereby form a plurality of line segments connecting the two or more selected points, each line segment, using the ground plane data, following the terrain depicted within the portion of the captured oblique image corresponding to that line segment, and wherein the image display and analysis software is adapted to calculate a distance along said line segments between the two or more selected points.