Surround View creates a bird's-eye view of the vehicle by compositing images from four cameras around the vehicle, helping drivers maneuver in tight situations.

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The city-facing rooms of this sleek property offer a spectacular bird's-eye view of Barcelona and its active port, including its medieval shipyards.

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Soldiers on an airborne Chinook with a bird's-eye view through the cargo sling door take advantage of a few moments "out of the war".

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On the mezzanine, reachable by staircase, is the brilliantly arranged Rose Hall of Birds, which permits a bird's-eye view of the dinosaur exhibits below.

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The latter applies to Lily Kelly Napangardi, an artist included in the Whitford exhibition, who paints from the bird's-eye view perspective typical of Aboriginal landscape art.

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From high up on the mountain, the couple have a bird's-eye view of the farms and woods of Zebulon Valley, where Deanna was born and raised.

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With much of the site under construction or stripped down, the visit involves a bird's-eye view from the ArcelorMittal Orbit tower which stands next to the Olympic Stadium.

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Amy Mole, managing director of the UK's Bird's Eye View Film Festival - which showcases female talent and features training labs to help women film-makers - agrees.

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