and or image capturing devices 32 a 32 b pass over the area of interest is dependent at least in part upon the size of the area and the amount of detail desired in the captured images the particular details of the image capturing path of platform 20 are described more particularly hereinafter as platform 20 passes over the area of interest a number of oblique images are captured by image capturing devices 32 a and 32 b as will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art images are captured or acquired by image capturing devices 32 a and 32 b at predetermined image capture intervals which are dependent at least in part upon the velocity of platform 20 image data signals 48 a and 48 b corresponding to each image acquired are received by and stored within memory 82 of image capturing computer system 46 via i o ports 88 similarly the data signals i e image data signals 48 location signals 56 velocity signals 58 time data signal 62 pitch roll and yaw signals 64 66 and 68 respectively heading signal 72 and altitude signal 74 corresponding to each captured image are received and stored within memory 82 of image capturing computer system 46 via i o ports 88 thus the location of image capturing device 32 a and 32 b relative to surface 32 at the precise moment each image is captured is recorded within memory 82 and associated with the corresponding captured image as best shown in fig1 the location of image capturing devices 32 a and 32 b relative to the earth corresponds to the nadir point n.