TRIP REPORT TO THE WEST COAST - 17-21 JULY 1961

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04747A000100070030-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: July 28, 1961
• Content Type: MF

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28 July 1961
Declass Review, NIMA/DoD
MWRAN1JM FOR: Chief, Tsachnical Plans and Dsvelopsaant Staff
SUBJECT: Trip Report to the West Coast - 17 - 21 July 1961
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California, During the to visit period covered b this ort, I traveled
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OM the s M of existing
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Los cpntr-- Los Angeles, California. We have two
meat of an ----'~. Im +"? first contract is the develop-
Quality Quality Meter. In Its original conception, this device
vas teryded to view a piece of aerially exposed or other exposed film. and
the readout on three selected dials would yield acutance, granularity, and
resolution as found within the image area. It wee a noble idea but, as we
have gotten into the project, we also learned more about the nature of immps
so we have begun to learn that what seems so bright and hopeful in the early
stages is now, in a technical sense, an impossibility. This device can
however, give us relative information on each of these iMMee characteristics
and in that format it gill be an addition to our laboratory. The mechanism
is caVlete except for same final tuning and deb, igging. 25X1A
suggests, at a cost of an additional bark order to cover the instal-
lation of two control of" an
The first of these is a selective
sensitive trigger mechanism in the resolution counter. Such a mechanism
would Permit the operator to control the sensitivity of the device so it
would note whether it was dealing with high-contrast resolutions or low-
contrast resolutions, Second suggestion: modification would cover the
installation of a variable sensitivity noise filter. Since one of the pro-
blem most seriously affecting high resolution measurements is the noise
level in film, it is desirable to be able to adjust the sensitivity of the
resolution counter so that we could filter random noise characteristics 25X1A
and this is the device vhiich now proposes to be added. The
ss#chanism on its delivery, PUrticularly if we go for the suggested iw, ifi-
cations, vill be a useful instrument. It vili, however, require a highly
drilled technician to be used.. It will also require a highly skilled tech-
niciaII to evaluate the results derived from it. As of this moment. the
Vz%veal for the additional nark is p ,ng. Delivery date without that work
'viii be sometime around the first of September. Delivery date; if we under-
take work, will be saes ere aroind late October.
The second act with covers development of an
tllctzan.ic 1=410 t mad !~ ism. This device will scan an Inge
admix $ sing Pow of 1t, transferring this scan into an electronic
&A awl - it Vll r the *'awl in tee of Min, intensity, noise
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his depcrturm on or about 1 Auguat for the West Coast.
MCC: This represents the information ae of cm 26 July 1961
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