RECOMMENDATION FOR AN (Sanitized)'CHANGE OF SCOPE' ON THE GEMS PROJECT WITH THE (Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04747A000700020019-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 1, 2002
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: September 14, 1966
• Content Type: MF

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NPIC/P&DS/D/6-41lJ
14 September 19
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Assistant for Plans and Development, NPIC
THROUGH: Chief, Development Branch, P&DS
SUBJECT: Recommendation for an of S T? *Change STAT
on the GEMS Project with the STAT
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(FY-1966). One large, integral part of the work is to make in the
laboratory 1024 GEMS to be used as the basic GEMS matrix to selectively
compare against mission photography on a comparator. Production
of this large GEMS matrix has not been initiated but is scheduled to
begin very soon. It will cost approximately of the existing STAT
funds. A GEMS viewer to use this many GEMS has been estimated to
by comparing it with GEMS. This project was funded for
1. The objective of the GEMS project is to determine how well
the image quality of mission photography can be assessed (objectively)
2. Recently,
has suggested a technique which, if
feasible, would eliminate the need for such a large GEMS matrix, not
only in the prototype system to be developed under this contract, but
in subsequent operational systems. The proposed technique, if
feasible, would require only a few GEMS (perhaps as few as 6-10). Thiel
technique suggests that the operator himself could make "optical"
GEMS in real-time for comparison against his mission material rather
than him having to make a selection from the 1024 GEM matrix as
designed in the system now under development.
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3. This alternate GEMS technique appears to be technically sound,
but it has not been investigated experimentally in the laboratory.
Therefore,
has proposed a ten-week laboratory feasibility
study of this potential technique for It is not desirable to STAT
use any of the funds allotted against the current research because
if the proposed alternate technique proves to be not feasible, we
would want to continue as originally planned on the large matrix.
4. It recommended that the proposal be accepted and that the
research be funded by a change of scope to their existing research.
It is also recommended that this be on a priority basis because we
would want to prove or disaprove the proposed technique before any
funds were expended on production of a large GEMS matrix.
STAT
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