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MSC 70-54<br />

The photography taken from the RB57F will be used to prepare<br />

a mosaic and orthopheto reference Oase of each urban area. It is<br />

planned that approx_na%ely 10 land use categories will be identified,<br />

mapped_ and correlated _th a universal grid system applied to each<br />

urban<br />

area.<br />

Wray explained that "such uniformed assessments of land use<br />

and potential land use_ in terms of airborn data keyed to census<br />

data_ have not been heretofore possible."<br />

Nine separate cameras_ utilizing six different types of film<br />

are being used for this project. The camera array is mounted in<br />

the 4_000 lb. remote sensing pallet beneath the aircraft.<br />

The census flights which are operated by the Aircraft Project<br />

Office of MSC's Earth Orbital Mission Office_ are flown at about<br />

907000 feet above each city in o_der to eroduce as nearly as possible<br />

to the base of 1:1_00%000 scale.<br />

The RB57F is a two man aircraft -- the pilot and the scientific<br />

instr,Jment engineer. The engineer is a member of the Aircraft Project<br />

Office and the pilot is a USAF pilot.<br />

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