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FORESHORTENING [3 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2013-06-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radar, Radio Guidance and Goniometry
  • Remote Sensing
DEF

A distortion in radar images causing the lengths of slopes facing the antenna to appear shorter on the image than on the ground.

OBS

[Foreshortening] is produced when radar wavefronts are steeper than the topographic slope.

OBS

foreshortening: term officially approved by the RADARSAT-2 Terminology Approval Group (RTAG).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radar, radioguidage et radiogoniométrie
  • Télédétection
DEF

Pour un radar à visée latérale, délocalisation apparente de certaines parties de la cible écartées du plan horizontal de référence au sol.

OBS

Cet effet de rapprochement résulte de l'inclinaison du front d'onde sur ces parties de cible.

OBS

effet de rapprochement : terme uniformisé par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie spatiale (CUTS) et par le Groupe de travail de la terminologie de RADARSAT-2 (GTTR).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Guía radárica, radioguía y radiogoniometría
  • Teledetección
DEF

Distorsión espacial según la cual las pendientes del terreno mirando hacia la "iluminación" de un radar de vista lateral son representadas como si el tamaño de la línea de alcance estuviera reducida de su verdadero tamaño.

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Record 2 2004-03-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Optics
  • Photography
DEF

The distorsion caused by a telephoto lens [with a compressed] illusion of depth ...

OBS

The Dictionary of New Media is available at: <a href="http://hepdigital.com/" title="http://hepdigital.com">http://hepdigital.com</a>.

Key term(s)
  • fore-shortening

French

Domaine(s)
  • Optique
  • Photographie
DEF

Distorsion causée par un téléobjectif s'accompagnant d'une illusion de profondeur et d'une compression de la perspective.

Spanish

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Record 3 1999-09-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Painting (Arts)
  • Drawing
DEF

In drawing, painting, etc., a method of reproducing the forms of an object not parallel to the picture plane so that the object seems to recede in space and to convey the illusion of three dimensions as perceived by the human eye.

OBS

The term foreshortening is applied to the depiction of a single object, figure, or part of an object or figure, whereas the term perspective refers to the depiction of an entire scene.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Peinture (Arts)
  • Dessin
DEF

Procédé par lequel on rend l'aspect des objets dont certaines dimensions sont réduites par l'effet produit par la perspective linéaire.

Spanish

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