The history of RS remotes until the beginnings of man kind when our ancestors used to climb a tree or go to a high hill to see the landscape, but it was until the development of flight when this discipline arose. In 1858 G. Tournachon took the first aerial picture from his balloon. The earlier photographers used pigeons, kites and different things for early images. It was not until World War I when military purposes were developed and reaching its precision during the Cold war. The Development of the satellites in the 20th century allowed remote sensing to development to a worldwide scale.

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