BRIEFING ON ORD S REMOTE CROP SENSING PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B05171A000600060068-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 7, 2003
• Sequence Number: 68
• Publication Date: March 10, 1967
• Content Type: MFR

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NPIC/TDS/D-739-6
10 March 1967
MmRAT?TDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Briefing on ORD's Remote Crop Sensing Program
At 1100 on Thursday 9 March, in Room 1216 of the Ames Bldg.
briefed the follow
ing people on the remote sensing of agricultural crops:
as a, very active consultant and planner. riefing lasted a out
an hour and a q rter and he had dozens of lantern s des which he used
as visual briefing aids. Juting from what said and showed the
pgram has been quite successful, so far, and they are now preparing to
!) during the late Spring and Summer wheat growing
season of 19b7. They are planning to use a U-2 aircraft at operational
altitude to acquire this photographic imagery. They will also acquire
agricultural ground truth, interpreters will then attempt
to predict crop yield through a study o the photos acquired without
access to the ground truth (until after they have made their predictions).
Declass Review by NIMA/DOD
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STThJECT: 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 uje
fulness of existing orbital photo coverage
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