CABLE TO RUEOJFA/DIA FROM NPIC WASH DC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04549A000800010024-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 18, 2006
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: July 19, 1968
• Content Type: CABLE

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SUBJECT-: EVALUATION OF GIANT SCALE _ SIGN S-033, FLOWN 30 JUNE 66
1. QUALITY SUMMARY: THE TECHNICAL OBJECTIVE CAMERA PROVIDED
IMAGERY COMPARABLE TO THAT QF MISSION S-0t1pND THE OPERATIONAL
OBJECTIVE CAMERA PROVIDED IMAGERY COr1PARA TO THAT OF MISSION
I Y-f S-032. INTERPRETATION SUITABILITY I S CO N ERED GOOD I N CLOUD
FREE AREAS AND RANGES TO POOR IN AREAS AFFECTED BY ATMOSPHERICS.
GROUND RESOLUTION FIGURES ARE EMPIRICAL ESTIMATES BASED ON EVALUA-
TION OF SIMILAR SENSORS AND IMPLY A---BAR AND A SPACE. A FIGURE
OF 4.0 FEET INDICATES THAT A 2.16 FOOT OBJECT COULD BE DETECTED.
THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION ESTIMATES NJERE MADE FROM THE ORIGINAL
NEGATIVE FROM CLOUD FREE IMAGERY AT OW NEAR NADIR AND WHERE THE
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VEHICLE IS AT AN ALTITUDE OVER. 70,000 FEET.
A. LEFT TECHNICAL OBJECTIVE CAMERA 6.5 FEET
13. RIGHT TECHNICAL OBJECTIVE CAMERA 3.5 FEET
C.. LEFT OPERATIONAL OBJECTIVE CAMERA 4.0 FEET
D. RIGHT OPERATIONAL OBJECTIVE CAMERA 4.0 FEET
2. THE SYSTEM EMPLOYED THE USUAL SENSORS AND THE MATERI
WAS PROCESSED AT YOKOTA 0. THE ONLY MATERIALS EVALUA
ARE THE ORIGINAL NEGATIVES FROM THE OPERATIONAL AND TECHNIC
OBJECTIVE CAMERAS.
3. CLOUDS OBSCURE OR DEGRADE 55 PERCENT OF THE MISSION.
4. ANALYSIS OF THE TECHNICAL OBJECTIVE MATERIAL.
A. COMMENTS APPLICABLE TO BOTH CAMERAS.
(1) MINUS DENSITY STREAKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE
PLATEN CONFIGURATION AND RANDOM MINUS DENSITY STREAKS
PARALLEL TO THE MAJOR AXIS OF THE FILM ARE PRESENT
THROUGHOUT THE MISSION.
(2) FOG CAUSED BY STATIC DISCHARGE CAN BE DETECTED
ALONG BOTH EDGES OF THE NEGATIVE.
(3) BANDING IS PRESENT THROUGHOUT THE MISSION.
(4) INTERMITTENT EMULSION LIFTS AND SCRATCHES
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ARE PRESENT THROUGHOUT THE MI r7 ON-. '
(5) THE DATA CHAMBER IMAGES ARE DENSE AND DIFFICULT
TO READ.
(6) THE DENSITY AND CONTRAST ARE ADEQUATE WHERE
CLOUDS AND HAZE ARE NOT A MAJOR FACTOR.
(7) APPROXIMATELY` 30 PERCENT OF THE PHOTOGRAPHY WAS
ACQUIRED ABOVE 30 DEGREES OBLIQUITY.
B. LEFT TECHNICAL OBJECTIVE CAMERA (AL), S/N 64-15.
(1) A PLUS DENSITY STREAK LOCATED 0.2 INCH FROM
THE UNTITLED EDGE IS PRESENT THROUGHOUT THE MISSION.
.TWO ADDITIONAL CONTINUOUS PLUS DENSITY STREAKS, LOCATED
1.9 AND 1.8 INCHES FROM THE U `JTITLEU EDGE ARE PRESENT
DURING THE LAST THIRD.-;OF THE MISSION AND FROM FRAME 100
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(2) SEVERAL MINUS QENI"TY SPOTS ?0 ::INTERMITTENTLY
0 THE END RESPECT-IVELY
q-XU1}UHUU1_ THE MISSION.
:(3) CAMERA OFF/ONS QCCURRED BETWEE 'FRAMES 98/99,
1322,470/471, 612/613,,1- 667/663, AND 937/938.
FRAME.
?(4) THE COUNTER HC.-A BIAS OF 36 OVER THE TITLED
WAGE 4 RU E A D J U 5;:E C R E T'
(5) THE LAST TITLED F, 1105.
C. RIGHT TECHNI OBJE`tTIVE CAMERAR.. S/N 64-03.
(1) AN ULTRASON C