+ 1970 News Releases (7.6 Mb PDF file) - NASA

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483-5111 April 22_ 1970
Houston_ Texas---Earth resources data of selected areas of Texas
gathered by the NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center will be presented Thursday
to representatives of the Texas Committee for the Study of Land Use and
Environmental
Control.
The 20-member state committee_ headed by Senator Criss Cole of
Houston_ will be briefed on the operation of MSC's earth resources aircraft
program. The committee also will receive a detailed presentation of earth
resources data on Texas collected while developing remote sensing techniques
for spacecraft applications.
Representatives of the Earth Resources Division of MSC's Science
and Applications Directorate will explain and display photographic and
other imagery data collected of selected areas of Houston-Galveston_ Dallas-
Ft. Worth, E1 Paso_ the Gulf Coast and numerous inland areas of Texas. The
briefings are scheduled to start at 1:30 pm Thursday in Bldg. 2 at MSC.
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