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where is a crop factor which takes into account the ratio between the 35 mm format
and actual sensor diagonal. The effect is an apparent longer focal length (if > 1) that
must be considered because directly effects the ground resolution (thus ).
The base between two subsequent images in the same strip is expressed by Eq.3:
in which is the selected along-track overlap.
The across-track overlap defines the distance on the ground between two
consecutive stripes :
Figure 33: Flight plan scheme [Ref. (22)]
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