Several air photos mounted together to form a continuous picture of a large area.

• A. Mosaic
• B. Atlas
• C. Panorama
• D. Composite

Answer: (A)

The main idea is stitching multiple overlapping aerial photographs into one seamless image that covers a large area. This process, called a mosaic, involves aligning the overlapping photos so features line up and adjusting brightness and scale so the transitions are smooth, yielding a single continuous picture that represents a broad region. An atlas is simply a collection of maps, not the act of combining photos. A panorama describes a very wide view, often produced from a sequence of frames and displayed as a single wide image, but not the standard term for joining aerial photos into a seamless map. A composite is a general term for combining images, but in mapping the specific, widely used term for this joining of air photos is mosaic.