Aerial photography

Quality:

Aerial photography - process of capturing images from aircraft, including planes, helicopters, and drones. Article “Aerial photography” in English Wikipedia has 77.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 58 references and 23 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Aerial photography” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Aerial photography”, its content was written by 421 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1765 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1251 times in English Wikipedia and cited 9037 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6292 in September 2003
• Global: #8788 in July 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6159 in March 2013
• Global: #13498 in March 2013

There are 42 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Aerial photography		77.8192
2	German (de) Luftbildfotografie		67.6127
3	Malay (ms) Fotografi udara		64.229
4	Czech (cs) Fotografie ze vzduchu		54.4113
5	Turkish (tr) Hava fotoğrafçılığı		52.1794
6	Chinese (zh) 空拍		43.9609
7	Croatian (hr) Zračna fotografija		43.15
8	Persian (fa) عکس‌برداری هوایی		42.6089
9	Italian (it) Fotografia aerea		42.4214
10	Russian (ru) Аэрофотосъёмка		41.095

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Aerial photography		2 989 308
2	Indonesian (id) Fotografi udara		560 588
3	German (de) Luftbildfotografie		471 541
4	Russian (ru) Аэрофотосъёмка		395 081
5	Persian (fa) عکس‌برداری هوایی		284 716
6	Japanese (ja) 空中写真		271 802
7	French (fr) Photographie aérienne		239 912
8	Chinese (zh) 空拍		177 114
9	Portuguese (pt) Aerofotografia		172 200
10	Hebrew (he) צילום אוויר		106 234

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Aerial photography		6 831
2	Russian (ru) Аэрофотосъёмка		918
3	German (de) Luftbildfotografie		663
4	Japanese (ja) 空中写真		518
5	Chinese (zh) 空拍		448
6	French (fr) Photographie aérienne		441
7	Spanish (es) Fotografía aérea		320
8	Portuguese (pt) Aerofotografia		308
9	Persian (fa) عکس‌برداری هوایی		248
10	Hebrew (he) צילום אוויר		233

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Aerial photography		421
2	German (de) Luftbildfotografie		244
3	French (fr) Photographie aérienne		167
4	Hebrew (he) צילום אוויר		104
5	Russian (ru) Аэрофотосъёмка		96
6	Dutch (nl) Luchtfotografie		86
7	Chinese (zh) 空拍		60
8	Persian (fa) عکس‌برداری هوایی		49
9	Japanese (ja) 空中写真		44
10	Polish (pl) Aerofotografia		42

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Aerial photography		4
2	Arabic (ar) تصوير جوي		2
3	Czech (cs) Fotografie ze vzduchu		1
4	Danish (da) Luftfoto		1
5	French (fr) Photographie aérienne		1
6	Polish (pl) Aerofotografia		1
7	Portuguese (pt) Aerofotografia		1
8	Chinese (zh) 空拍		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) Aerofotoqrafiya		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Аерофотография		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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