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Clandestine CartographyClandestine Cartography
Part 3: The Imagery and its Part 3: The Imagery and its UsesUses
TALENT/TALENT/KEYHOLEKEYHOLE
Mapping vs. IntelligenceMapping vs. Intelligence
ARGON (KH-5) “frame camera” had reseaus for mapping
Necessary for registering KH-1…4B stripsCompetition at first between CIA and Air
Force (SAC targeting)Later KH-5 replaced by DISIC mapping
camera
Geodesy and WGS70Geodesy and WGS70
Mission 9009: 18 August 1960Mission 9009: 18 August 1960
Coverage: Denied territory, Coverage: Denied territory, but…but…
Soviet SA-2 Launch SiteSoviet SA-2 Launch Site
KH-5 Argon Santa Barbara KH-5 Argon Santa Barbara ChannelChannel
Santa Rosa Island in 1967Santa Rosa Island in 1967
Early KH PentagonEarly KH Pentagon
CORONA/SPOT Pan comparisonCORONA/SPOT Pan comparison
Mass imageryMass imagery
GeoregistrationMultiple copiesMosaicingRevisit and change detectionAll needed new hardware, training,
methods etc
PIC (Steuart Bldg) 5PIC (Steuart Bldg) 5thth and K Sts., NW and K Sts., NW (Navy Yard Bldg 213 in January 1963)(Navy Yard Bldg 213 in January 1963)
Kodak Film Kodak Film ProcessorProcessor
Budget PressureBudget Pressure
NRO/CIA budget also deep blackOMB and congress seek to make use of
money already spent as mission became less critical
1973 OMB report acknowledges civil roleCivil backs up intelligence/military (e.g.
Gulf War I)
New UsesNew Uses
USGS Building E-1 “Special Mapping Centers” “The USGS became the largest civil agency user
of the CORONA imagery” (Baclawski, 1997) EPA, Forest Service, FEMA: Civil Applications
Committee 1975, Medea Technology for cartography, UPDRAMS,
UNAMACE, AS-11 Birth of GIS and remote sensing “A Pandora’s box of potential applications”
White, Gray and BlackWhite, Gray and Black
Leaks A and B– Secret sentries in Space 1971– Deep Black 1986– Photogrammetric Engineering
Eugene Fubini: DISIC, mapping and multiuse Gemini: Control and reuse of components Apollo Lunar Mapping Camera: SAMOS Geodetic mapping: DMA 1972 ERTS 1972: NRO/Air Force vs NASA (Landsat 7
and stereo)
Deep BlackDeep BlackBurrows (1986)Burrows (1986)
CAC CharterCAC Charter
“…facilitate civilian agencies’ use of classified systems and coordinate the incorporation of photography, derived data, and technology in performance of domestic civilian functions…”
Dredging and Dredging and gold extractiongold extraction
Tsaidam Basin China: RED DOTTsaidam Basin China: RED DOT
Autometrics: Africa MosaicAutometrics: Africa Mosaic
CORONA CORONA and and archeologyarcheology
Goleta, CA: 24K RevisionGoleta, CA: 24K Revision
TodayToday
CORONA archives open, images at Sioux Falls and in National Archives 1995
NRO acknowledged 1992 All since KH-9, most of SAMOS etc still T-K Executive Order 12951 in 1995, five year promise
completed in 2002 Many uses of CORONA in environmental and
historical work
CORONA and CORONA and GLIS/EarthExplorerGLIS/EarthExplorer
KH-7 Hanoi 6/11/67KH-7 Hanoi 6/11/67
KH-7 Moscow 4/6/79KH-7 Moscow 4/6/79
KH-9 Buenos Aires 10/31/74KH-9 Buenos Aires 10/31/74