Patent ID: 7424133

Claim:
A computerized system for displaying, geolocating, and making measurements based upon captured oblique images, comprising: a computer system having a memory; an image and data file accessible by said system and including a plurality of image files corresponding to a plurality of captured oblique images, said image and data file further including positional data corresponding to said plurality of image files; a ground plane data file representing a tessellated ground plane, said ground plane data file accessible by said computer system, said ground plane data file representing a tessellated ground plane that closely approximates at least a portion of the terrain depicted within said captured oblique images, said tessellated ground plane further comprising a plurality of interconnected facets with the size of the facets defined using a uniform number of pixels in the captured oblique images; and image display and analysis software executed by said system for reading said image and data file and displaying at least a portion of the captured oblique images as a displayed oblique image, said software calculating the geo-location of one or more selected points within said displayed image, said software calculating a separation distance between any two or more selected points within said displayed image.