AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY AIDS TIMBER INDUSTRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600360958-9
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 21, 2011
• Sequence Number: 958
• Publication Date: December 18, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
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PUBLISHED Monthly periodical; daily newspaper
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PUBLISHED Moscow
DATE
PUBLISHED 22 Jun, Jul 1950
LANGUAGE Russian
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SOURCE Newspaper and periodical as indicated.
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHERS SCOUT TIMBER FLOATERS -- Lesnaya PromYshlennost', No 7, Jul 50
Successful fulfillment of the timber-floating plan depends to a great extent
on the effectiveness of supervision exercised over floating operations.
Photographing floating processes from the air permits the supervisor of a
floating trust, floating office, or roadstead to see the whole day-by-day picture
of floating operations on the river. The evidence of the photographs enables him
to take immediate measures for eliminating apparent deficiencies.
The 1949 experiment of applying aerial photography to timber-floating work car-
ried out by the Forestry Aviation Trust in the area of Vychegdosplav (Vychegda Float-
ing) Trust has pointed out how helpful aerial photography can be in promoting float-
ing production.
Aerial photographs were made during the spring high-water season of the Vychegda
River from Syktyvkar to Ust'-Kulom, of the Sysola River from Syktyvkar to Kaygorodka,
and of other tributaries for distances of 20 kilometers from their mouths. On the
basis of these photographs, Vychegdosplav Trust set up a program of improvement mea
sures which permitted earlier and better preparation for the floating season.
In the interest of observing and controlling the progress of freely floating
timber on the Ust'-Kulom--Syktyvkar sector of the Vychegda River, one or two selec-
tive photographs were taken every 10 kilometers. The photographs were given to the
trust on the same day that they were taken.
On the basis of these photographs, Vychegdosplav Trust supervisors were able to
judge the work being done at the roadsteads and jam areas, the condition of the booms,
etc. Since they received-photographs daily, they were. precisely informed as to the
situation prevailing in all sectors and thus were able to control release of timber
from the tributaries into the main 'stream.
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The roadsteads-qere also photographed at selected times, so that at the end
of each month an aerial photographic inventory could be made. From the photo-
graphs, it was possible to determine closely how many rafts had been readied for
movement.
More than once, aerial photographs were the basic evidence in ascertaining
the reasons for failure to meet the raft-tugging plans. For example, there were
several instances when by exhibiting photographs, Vychegdosplav Trust successfully
proved that tugs were idle lue to a lack of rafts or that nonmovement of rafts was
due to the tardy arrival of tugs.
When floating operations are carried out over a large territory, supervisors
and specialists of floating organizations are unable to oversee operations visually
and to make on-the-spot adjustments. But with the aid of aerial photographs, they
are able to see everything of interest throughout the entire territory of activity
and are able to exercise better supervision. The experiment proved that when an
unsatisfactory condition has been reported at some floating center it is possible to
have a plan crew photograph this center and have the pictures developed within a
few hours.
During the course of the floating season, about 400,000 hectares of area were
photographed. Aerial photographs were made in varying scales from 1:10,000 to
1:3,000.
It is no secret, however, that in some logging trusts piles of photographs are
lying unused, because the workers do not know how to interpret them. It is also
strange that the Central Scientific Reasearch Institute for Timber Floating which
above all others should be interested in extracting information from aerial photo-
graphs, has thus far not taken part in this important matter.
In 1950, aerial photographing of floating operations will be carried out in the
basins of the Vychegda and Severnaya (Northern) Dvina rivers. -- G. N. Poldushkin,
Chief, Forestry Aviation Section of the Air Force
BEGIN AERIAL RECONNAISSANCE OF TIMBER RESOURCES -- Komsomol'skaya Pravda, No 147,
22 Jun 50
Scientific expeditions and forest management groups are doing a great deal of
work in inspecting and calculating the timber resources of Tyumen' Oblast. An ex-
pedition from the Leningrad Forestry Aviation Trust will spend half a year in the
northern regions. During this time, the expedition will study about 2.5 million
hectares of forest and estimate the amount and quality of the timber. At present,
forest management groups are working on the Ob', Sos'va, and Dem'yanka rivers.
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