THE EFFECTS OF PHOTOGRAPHIC GROUND RESOLUTION ON PHOTO INTERPRETATION, PROGRESS REPORT #4

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• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 22, 2012
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: March 31, 1970
• Content Type: REPORT

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Here is the progress report for the past two
months. The costs remaining are lower than
I expected; first, because there were some
labor and travel costs 'and second, because
overhead during ,the first two months of the
year, when we have to make fixed payments
for the entire year, is extremely high. As
overhead goes down, during the remainder of
the year, the "costs-remaining" picture im-
proves.
Best regards,
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THE EFFECTS OF PHOTOGRAPHIC
GROUND RESOLUTION ON PHOTOIN:TERPRETATION
Progress Report No. 4, March 31, 1970
PROGRESS
Since the last progress report, submitted on January 26,
-1970, we have done the following:
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1. Reviewed reports of recent studies that might.be
relevant to the work. As usual;. practically no
significant information was obtained, probably.
because the project is apparently almost unique,
particularly in light of the methods being used
and the ground resolutions being investigated.
2. During the week of 14 December 1969, the project
director: a) visited the sponsor's facility to
discuss the project with the technical monitor;
b) with the technical monitor, visited 25X1
to advise .25X1
of our needs for simulated aerial 25X1
photographs to be made from the original negatives
obtained in flights over Aberdeen Proving Ground
(a proposal was solicited from~and was subse- 25X1
quently received in mid-January, 1970); c) reviewed
with the technical monitor the idea of using the
artillery pieces, as well as the tanks, at Aberdeen
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as targets in the study; consequently, the project
director and 25X1
visited Aberdeen and selected the most appropriate
artillery targets and again examined the tanks that
had previously been selected as targets; d).dis-.
cussed with the research done and 25X1
sponsored by the Army Behavioral Science Research
Laboratory (BSRL) that might be relevant to our
study. Again it appeared that the previous studies
done under the contract and the current study are
more sophisticated, at least as far as the imagery
being used is concerned, than the BSRL work. Con-
. sequently, no significant information was obtained.
3. During the week of 1 February 1970, the project
director visited the sponsor's facility to review
the project and to discuss the proposal. 25X1
Because of the simulation method proposed and the
costs, it was concluded that an additional proposal
should be obtained from Eastman-Kodak. We visited
E-K
described the simulation requirements, and requested
that they submit a proposal. Their simulation
techniques appeared superior to those proposed by
and their suggestions regarding ral2at should be
simulated were more realistic.
4. On February 18, the technical monitor visited our
facility in Santa Barbara and we discussed the pos-
sibility of obtaining additional coverage of other
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types of ground order~of-battle (GOB) targets. We
agreed that other-types of GOB targets would add
validity to the .study but that finding large numbers
of them in a small area would be unlikely. .The tech-
nical monitor agreed to examine the possibilities.
S. During fhe week of 23 March 1970, the project director
visited the sponsor's facility and reviewed the proj-
ect with the technical monitor and 25X1
The E-K proposal to prepare the photographic stimulus
materials was discussed and the decision was made to
have E-K do the work rather than The technical. 25X1
monitor, and the project director 25X1
visited, the people, at E-K in the latter part of the
week. We gave them the final specifications 'for the
Aberdeen photography in terms of ground resolution
and scale-and also gave them the original negative.
They intended to start work in preparing the photo-
graphy immediately.
During the next reporting period, we plan to do the
following:
1. Select targets for an additional scene containing
other types of GOB targets. It may be necessary to
make a mosaic from a large number of frames because
it is doubtful that enough targets can be photographed
on a single frame.
2. Develop PI keys for the targets photographed at Aber-
deen Proving Ground.
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3. Conduct a pilot study using the photographs prepared
by E-K from the original negatives of Aberdeen.
There will be six ground resolutions, each at a
different. scale, and approximately 20 tank anal 20
artillery pieces serving as targets to be identified.
The purpose of the pilot study will be to determine:
a) the adequacy. of the instructions to the subjects
and the keys; b) the amount of time required to
perform the task; and c) the appropriate design of
the main study.
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