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Documentation of the orientation of an image message can be found in the message itself with Z forward:

http://docs.ros.org/en/api/sensor_msgs/html/msg/Image.html

It usually uses the _optical postfix for the frame_id to be clear that it's different than the standard coordinate frames with X forward. https://ros.org/reps/rep-0103.html

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