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... aircraft equipped with camera systems similar to those on board Earth Resources Technology Satellite A (ERTS-A; scheduled for June or July launch) were flying from Ames Research Center in preparation for ERTS flights. ERTS flights would be first U.S. attempt to monitor earth resources from space. Purpose of ... for analysis of early growing season. Seasonal change data from aircraft would be correlated with ERTS-A data after launch to monitor healthy crops and forests and disease infestation. ''(NASA Release ...

... but to reprimand us." ''(AP, B Sun, 7/24/72, A5)'' July 23-25: Erts 1 (ERTS-A) Earth Resources Technology Satellite was launched by NASA from Western Test Range at 11 ... resources, land use, water resources, marine resources, mapping and charting, and environment. As secondary objectives Erts I would acquire complete, largely cloud- free coverage of U.S. with multispectral scanner (MSS ... earth resources projects had been established with Canada, Brazil, and Mexico, using Erts 1 and NASA earth observations aircraft. ERTS program was managed by Goddard Space Flight Center GSFC , under direction of ...

... energy, and perhaps most importantly, on solar energy." ''(Transcript)'' First anniversary of the launch of ERTS 1 Earth Resources Technology Satellite from Western Test Range July 23, 1972. Dr. James C ... , Chief of Goddard Space Flight Center 's Lab-oratory for Meteorology and Earth Sciences, reviewed ERTS l's year-end status: its multispectral scanner was fully operational, the return-beam-vidicon ...

... 100 000 photos covering three fourths of the world's land masses and coastal areas. ERTS data-used to monitor urban and agricultural development, locate air and water pollution, update maps ... provided to more than 300 U.S. and foreign investigators in government, universities, and industry. ERTS-B development continued on schedule. NASA'S pollution monitoring program-to develop and demonstrate technology ...

... -9: More than 1000 administrators, congressmen, and govern­ment, industry, and university scientists attended the ERTS 1 Earth Resources and Technology Satellite Symposium sponsored by Goddard Space Flight Center in New Carrollton, Md. Two hundred papers presented results from ERTS 1 (launched July 23, 1972) experiments in agriculture and forestry, mineral resources and geology, environ ...

... on S. 2350 and S. 3484, bills to develop an operational Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) system and to establish an Office of Earth Resources Survey Systems within NASA and an ... an advanced satellite offering higher spatial resolution would increase the usefulness of ERTS data, Zarb contended that the third satellite, ERTS-C, should be experimental. His view was supported by S. Benedict ...

... for an Earth Observation System 595 - C. Armstrong Methodologica1 Questions in the Digitised Analysis of ERTS Data 608 - Joseph Otterman Some Environmental Problems and their Satellite Monitoring 613 - D. J. David J. Deries and F Verger Automatic Cartography of ERTS Remote-Sensing Data 624 - B. Ratti G. Bressanin Italian Ground Facility for the Reception and ...

... , were successfully launched, as well as Nnss 0-20 Transit navigational satellite for the Navy. ERTS 1 , launched in mid-1972 as the first Earth Resources Technology Satellite , completed its 7000th ... NASA studies ranging from investigations of the solar system to practical applications of space technology. ERTS 1 and Skylab environment and resources data were used throughout the world. Scientists from 37 ...

... this proposal reaching a critical point of decision." '' (Fortune, 8/70, 11586)'' International participation in ERTS program was discussed in Astronautics & Aeronautics by John Hanessian, Jr., and John M. Logsdon , of George Washington Univ.: "Broad participation in ERTS... makes sense only if a global operational Earth-resources survey system follows. The design and ...

... OMSF; Av ilk, 7/17/72, 19)'' Ecological applications of first Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS), scheduled for launch July 21, were discussed by NASA Associate Administrator for Applications Charles W ... experimental one, but through its operation we expect to develop understandable and highly useful applications." ERTS could "obtain images from any area on the globe every eighteen days and . . . provide repetitive ...

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