PEACEFUL USES OF SATELLITE PHOTOGRAPHY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80T01137A000200060027-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 26, 2010
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: July 10, 1968
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Assistant to Deputy Director, NPIC
SUBJECT: Peaceful Uses of Satellite Photography
One of our PIs~
has proposed two new suggestions 25X1
for the peaceful uses of photography, which the ARGO Project might have
an interest in. A copy of his memorandum of 10 July 1968 is attached.
Chief, Imagery Exploitation Group
NPIC
Attachment:
Memo fro.ml (dated 10 July 1968
Distribution:
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10 July 1968
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Nuclear/Industrial Branch, SD/IEG
SUBJECT: Two Suggested Ideas for Peaceful Uses of Satellite
Photography Program
1. Two ship borne expeditions nave explored the sea off Hawaii
to describe and to study successfully the migration of gigantic eddies
50 miles across, a wave length of 85 miles, and a movement of 22 miles
per day. The eddies move in the current induced by its flow around
islands according to von Karman's Law of Wake Effect. The eddies are
said to bring up food fishes from the colder deeper waters. Similar
eddies are said to be observed by cloud distribution in air currents
flowing around mountainous tropical islands. Gigantic storm induced
eddies have been observed on index camera photography off the Kurile
Islands and th? central Caspian Sea. A brief written description
of the eddies is to be found in the Pacific Science Association
Information Bulletin, vol. 20, no. 2, p. 45, April 1968, Unclassified.
2. An abstract of a Russian paper presented at a US meeting on
the Physics of the Atmosphere, reports that hail studies were conducted
during 1964-67 in Moldavia, USSR. More information on the time and place
probably can be obtained from the manuscript possibly on file with the
American Meteorological Society. If the ground facilities and field
equipment deployment can be located on satellite coverage a comparison
with US Air Force studies in Colorado and the Alberta Provincial Research
Council might be of interest and value on severe weather modification
studies. Source: American Meterol. Society, Bulletin vol. 49, no. 5,
pt 2, p. 620, may 1968.
Nuclear/ n us ria Branch,
SD/ IEG/NPIC
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