The powered parachute can fly very low to the ground, and as slowly as giving officers a clear view during search and surveillance operations.

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

In the vote Tuesday, New York's Landmarks Preservation Commission denied landmark status to the 19th century building that now occupies the site of the proposed 13-story, Commissioners ruled that the building, which is not within view of ground zero, lacks distinctive architectural or historic value.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

Not only did Microsoft have to take and process a lot of images, it also had to correct for cloud cover, snow, and other impediments to a ground view.

FORBES: Bing Maps Aerial Victory

On Monday Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, told a veterans group in San Antonio that America had enough troops currently on the ground in the view of his military advisers.

ECONOMIST: Iraq's security void

The Fly Delta app for iPad features a "Glass Bottom Jet, " through which customers will have the ability to view the ground below in a unique way that includes maps, social networks and internet content while connected to the Internet on any of Delta's more than 800 Wi-Fi-equipped aircraft.

ENGADGET: Delta introduces Fly Delta app for iPad, iOS 6 Passbook integration