LETTER TO GLEN C. GUSTAFSON (SANITIZED)

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• Publication Date: June 11, 1982
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The enclosed letter was sent to us
and we are forwarding it to you for
assistance.
DDI/OIA has also suggested we
coordinate this with NPIC. Consequently,
a cony of thig, aterial has been sent to
NPIC.
Please let us know what action has
been taken.
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11 June 1982
Dr. Glen C. Gustafson
Associate Professor
Department of Geology and Geography
Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
Dear Dr. Gustafson:
Thank you for writing the Central Intelligence Agency concerning
aerial film to be used in aerial photo interpretation work. I have
forwarded your letter to the appropriate Agency component and you
will be hearing from them directly.
Again, thank you for writing us. If we can be of further assistance,
please let us know.
Sincerely.
Public Affairs Division
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Dear Sir:
your Public Affairs Office has suggested that I
contact you.
Briefly, one of the officers in our ROTC unit (Capt. Dominic Manocchio
and I have received approval to teach a mini-course in Military Photo In-
terpretation this coming school year. It will be a one-credit college
course aimed primarily at ROTC cadets who may be considering careers in
Military Intelligence.
Much of the aerial photo interpretation work will be done using the
three Baush and Lomb Zoom Stereoscopes which we have been able to obtain as
Federal Surplus (see photos enclosed). However, we do not currently have
appropriate aerial film of sufficient image quality to utilize this equip-
ment in the course.
I have discussed this at length with Mr. Dino Brugioni, a photo spe-
cialist recently retired from the Agency. We both agreed that a small
quantity of duplicate positive film from the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962
would be ideal. Although he informs me that the film was declassified, my
efforts to access it have been unsuccessful. Apparently the film is still
listed as being classified.
Would it be possible for you to have someone review this situation?
I feel there are several very good reasons for declassifying at least part
of it at this time:
1. It would serve a useful purpose by contributing to the
quality training of U.S. Army officers in ROTC.
2. This coming October, most of it will be twenty years old!
3. Intelligence collection methods would not be compromised
since two of the reconnaissance aircraft involved (i.e.,
the RF-101 and the RF-8U) are now retired from the service
and the third (i.e., the Lockheed U-2) is now 27 years old.
A State University of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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In conclusion, we are seeking a small quantity of high-quality, duplicate
positive, full-frame aerial photography for use in officer training. I
have included a few xerox copies of the news photos taken from this film
to show you specifically the kind of thing we think may be appropriate.
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Volume 5, Number 26, April 1, 1982 (ISSN 0273-6292)
In Creating Maps
Geography Students
Use New Equipment
By Judy Daniel
Staff Writer
In Room 308, Wilson Hall,
students are wearing glasses with one
.red and one green lens, and they are
not watching "3-D" movies. They are
using a sophisticated piece of
mapmaking equipment called a stereo
plotter.
With the plotter they can create
topographic maps from aerial photos,
said Dr. Glen Gustafson, associate
professor of geography.
The two Kelsh Plotters now in use
in the geology and geography
department's graphics laboratory
have a checkered past-they were,
formerly housed at Lorton Reforma-
tory.
When the mapmaking training
program there was discontinued and
the plotters were offered for sale,
Gustafson was determined to get
them for JMU.
The paper work was handled
through the regional General
Services Administration office in
Richmond, and a JMU truck was sent
to pick up the plotters. .
.we
were told they were in perfect,
condition and already crated," he
said, but when the truck arrived at
Lorton the driver found them
disassembled with many missing
parts.
In short, when they arrived on
campus, "they looked like a bunch of
junk," Gustafson said.
Undaunted, he continued the
process of getting the cumbersome
equipment in place.
Buildings and grounds staff
members arranged for cranes to lift
the instruments through the windows
of the third-floor laboratory. Because
of the plotters' size and weight,
bringing them in by ordinary means
would have been impossible. He
pointed out that the slate tabletop
portion of each plover weighs 750
pounds. - ... ,
Once the plotters were inside,
Gustafson, associate professor of
geography Dr. Joseph Enedy, and a
group of students held a "painting
party" to spruce them up.
The plotters were adjusted by a
retired . employee of the U.S.
Geological Survey and by Donnie
Dr. Glen Gustafson, associate professor of geography. instructs Mark'
Wilson in how to use a stereo plotter to make tcpogrophic mops. Wilson
is a senior majoring in anthropology and geography.
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Steve Foote. a senior geography major, Interprets aerial film by using a
stereo microscope during a session In the graphics loboroto-y.
Nau, a senior geography major who
spent a day at USGS studying the
plotters there.
The consulting services of the
USGS employee, and local ingenuity,
elbow grease and painting talents
transformed the plotters into
"valuable" instruments at a fraction
of their normal cost, Gustafson said.
In order to draw a map with the
plotter, the 3-D glasses are used to
create the illusion of depth on an
aerial photo. Natural land features
can then be traced at their various
elevations to produce an extremely
accurate topographic map. "Every
other type of map is based on
information which originated from
this type of instrument," Gustafson
said.
Use of the plotters will continue to
expand "based on our accumulated
experience and the availability of local
aerial photographs," he said. There is
no "late date, large scale, suitable
-aerial photography of our area," he
noted, adding that he is encouraging
the City of Harrisonburg to "fly"
some.
"" The Kelsh Plotters, the computer
mapmaking equipment and a newly
purchased Bausch and Lomb stereo
microscope are among instruments in
the graphics lab "not normally
available in an undergraduate
geography program," Gustafson said.
The stereoscope is similar to those
used by organizations such as
intelligence agencies, the USGS,
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration and the U.S. Forest
Service. It is used to view film on a
light table. It can be employed with a
wide range of aerial photographs or
even with ground slides, and provides
"a three dimensional impression,"
the associate professor said. Depth
perception through the microscope is
?"better than what the eye could see if
you were there."
Ile advantages -of using film
instead of paper prints for interpreta-
tion of aerial photographs are "just
huge," he added. For example, on a
light table the film image can be
magnified .greatly without losing
clarity.
All of the equipment in the
graphics lab was purchased with an
eye toward practical experience for
students and teaching and research
for faculty. . Students who have
experience with such equipment will
have an edge.when applying for jobs
or to graduate school, Gustafson said.
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The Corr
uterization of Cartography
If 16th-century geographer
Gerhardus Mercator could imag-
ine a cartographer's heaven, it
just might be Room 308 in JMU's
Wilson Hall.
That is the location of the
geology/geography graphics lab,
which houses an array of com-
puter mapmaking equipment.
The equipment is "a real
breakthrough for the program
here," said associate professor Dr.
Glen Gustafson. "It goes far
beyond the line-printer maps we
have been making for some
time."
Until the acquisition of the lab's
new equipment, campus com-
puter terminals were capable only
of displaying numbers and let-
ters. Now line maps are being
previewed on special graphics
terminals and later plotted on
paper by a pen plotter.
Gustafson, who conducts sev-
eral labs a week for geography
students, explained that the
equipment can reduce the
amount of time needed to com-
plete certain elements of the
mapmaking process. "But we
make sure the students can
accomplish the same thing manu-
ally," he added, noting that the
equipment should not take the
place of basic skills and under-
standing.
The equipment consists of a
three-by-five foot digitizing table,
a microcomputer, a graphics
terminal and a telephone connec-
tion to the main academic com-
puter in Harrison Hall Annex.
The main operation, "digi-
tizing," consists of automatically
reading coordinates for points
from a map or graph on the
digitizing table.
The digitizing table spent its
first few months on campus in the
Academic Computer Center
where JMU staff members Don
Seay, Dave Trout and center
director Stin Lenkherd connected
it to the main computer and wrote
several programs.
The programs are very basic,
Gustafson said, but more complex
ones can be added later.
Users of the equipment call up
the program they have selected
and follow instructions given.
either on the viewing screen or on
a prepared documentation print-
dents can get "valuable experi-
ence in how to edit and modify"
existing maps or create new ones,
Gustafson said.
One program, "Symap" from
Harvard University, has been in
use at JMU for three years, but
the new equipment "enhances the
use of the program dramatically,"
Gustafson said.
In the past, coordinates for a
map were measured, or "digi-
tized," by hand, Gustafson said.
Now they are automatically re-
corded by tracing the map outline
with the digitizer.
Dr. Gustafson demonstrates the use of
one of the optical projection instru-
ments used for mapping.
Hand digitizing a map took
many hours, Gustafson said.
"Now a student can digitize a file
of several hundred points in 30
minutes."
The new equipment should be
especially helpful to the ad-
vanced cartography students who
are producing maps of certain
areas of the Shenandoah Valley.
Last year the class made a map
of Rockingham County which
class members are presently
updating and to which more
features are being added.
The newest Rockingham
County map shows shaded
terrain relief, Gustafson said. "It's
an experiment and will make a
very attractive map," he said. "No
other county map in Virginia has
this feature."
A current class is finishing up
one of Augusta County as well'as
a tourist map of the Valley.
The tourist map takes a basic
map and uses overlays of differ-
ent colors to highlight nature,
resort, historical and park areas.
---out, the associate professor said.-"We want to show as many as
By using the programs, stu- possible of the major tourist
sites," Gustafson said.
All three of the maps will be
distributed through banks and
realtors, and community service
organizations.
The Rockingham County map is
currently sponsored by Valley
National Bank of Harrisonburg.
The Augusta County and
Shenandoah Valley tourist maps
do not yet have sponsors,
Gustafson said. He is seeking
banks or businesses to be
sponsors so that the maps can be
printed and distributed as soon
as possible.
This yeai s advanced
cartography students worked with
the Harrisonburg city planning
department. A new city zoning
and land use planning map was
produced and will be published
in a multicolor edition by the City
of Harrisonburg.
Although the new equipment is
located in Wilson Hall, Gustafson
stressed that it is available not
only to geography students and
faculty but to those in other dis-
ciplines as well. Members of the
JMU Archeological Research
Center and the departments of
geology, physics and mathe-
matics and computer science
have already made arrangements
to use it.
"Every effort is being made to
make the equipment available to
qualified users on the campus,"
Gustafson said. "We are eager to
move the use of computer
graphics forward."
Drawings on these pages are samples
of the new map products being pro-
duced in the graphics lab.
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The western hemisphere.
Virginia with county subdivisions.
The United States.
Block diagram of terrain showing contours and streams.
Roy Downey (left) and Mark Owens (right) are briefed on use of the lab's new computer graphic system.
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Spies in the Sky, John W. R. Taylor and David
Mondey. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,
1972. 128 pp.
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