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Gigapans and the Social Sciences

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posted on 2010-11-01, 00:00 authored by Karl M. Kindt
<p>Forensic scientists, social scientists, educators, attorneys and real estate agents have been provided with a remarkable tool for<br>analysis and marketing with the advent of gigapan imagery. The key to use of this new imaging technology is imagination.<br>IMAGINE how the technology can be used to deepen the understanding of moments in time. Although a gigapan image<br>might take 20 minutes to create if a large area is being imaged, that 20 minutes reveals a place in time like no other human<br>technology and preserves for future generations of educators and social scientists an aspect of reality never before captured.</p>

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