photoreconnaissance

American

[foh-toh-ri-kon-uh-suhns, -zuhns] / ˌfoʊ toʊ rɪˈkɒn ə səns, -zəns /

Or photo-reconnaissance

noun

reconnaissance using aerial photography.

photoreconnaissance British

/ ˌfəʊtəʊrɪˈkɒnɪsəns /

noun

military reconnaissance from the air by camera

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Etymology

Origin of photoreconnaissance

First recorded in 1940–45; photo- + reconnaissance

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photoreconnaissance

Very simply, the missiles follow topographic maps developed with photoreconnaissance satellites.

From US News ● Jan. 17, 2016

Its photoreconnaissance specialists and weapons analysts are the gumshoes who stake out the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces.

From Time Magazine Archive

A British airman last week coasted high over the Messina Strait between Sicily and the Italian mainland on a mission of photoreconnaissance.

From Time Magazine Archive

Major General Oliver Echols, wartime materiel chief of the A.A.F., set the committee on the track of another Hughes project: the high-speed XF-II photoreconnaissance plane, in which Planemaker Hughes had crashed a year ago.

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