BRIEFING ON ORD'S REMOTE CROP SENSING PROGRAM
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October 9, 2001
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March 10, 1967
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NPIC/TDS/D-739-67
10 March 1967
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Briefing on ORD's Remote Crop Sensing Program
1. At 1100 on Thursday 9 March, in Room 1216 of the Ames Bldg.
briefed the follow-
ing people on the remote sensing oagricu turalcrops:
From ORR -
From OSI
From NPIC
2. This program is being handled by ~ 25X1
ILLEGIB as a very active consultant and planner. I briefing lasted about 25X1
an hour and a quarter and he had dozens of lantern slides which he used
-]as visual briefing aids. Judging from what said and showed the 25X1
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use a set of six aerial cameras to photograph
during the late Spring and Summer wheat growing 25X1
season of 1967. They are planning to use a U-2 aircraft at operational
altitude to acquire this photographic imagery. They will also acquire 25X1
agricultural ground truth. interpreters will then attempt
to-'pedict crop yield through a study of the photos acquired without
access to the ground truth (until after they have made their predictions).
Declass Review By NIMA/DOD
To SECKI
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SUBJECT: Briefing on ORD's Remote Crop Sensing Program
3. ORD's program seems to overlap our proposed "Crop Yield"
program, although their's is not aimed toward determining the use-
fulness of existing orbital photo coverage
Development Staff, TDS
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