A method of survey used to locate sites and buried structures from the air. Features can be seen on photographs due to differences in soil texture and moisture content as well as vegetation growth. These show up as colour and shade differences known as cropmarks and soilmarks.

Photographs can be oblique or vertical, the latter is taken with an overlap to allow examination through a stereoscope.

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