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n. The identification, description and measurement of objects in photographs, especially in aerial photographs, for geologic, cartographic or military purposes
Usage examples of "photographic interpretation".
The analysts of the National Reconnaissance Office, a part-CIA and part-Air Force enterprise, along with the scientists at ENPIC, the National Photographic Interpretation Center, were putting together a picture that would one day be complete.
From there, the signals had been relayed to the National Photographic interpretation Center, an NSA facility located in an unremarkable six-story building with bricked-in windows located at the corner of M and First streets in the heart of Washington, D.
NPIC, Magruder knew, was the National Photographic Interpretation Center, the agency tasked with processing and producing photo intelligence from America's chain of reconnaissance satellites.
Until recently, such high-resolution photos were processed first at the National Photographic Interpretation Center in Washington, D.