1. Clandestine Cartography Part 3: The Imagery and its Uses Clandestine Cartography Part 3: The Imagery and its Uses

2. TALENT/ KEYHOLE

3. Mapping vs. Intelligence ARGON (KH-5) “frame camera” had reseaus for mapping Necessary for registering KH-1…4B strips Competition at first between CIA and Air Force (SAC targeting) Later KH-5 replaced by DISIC mapping camera

4. Geodesy and WGS70

5. Mission 9009: 18 August 1960

6. Coverage: Denied territory, but…

7. Soviet SA-2 Launch Site

8. KH-5 Argon Santa Barbara Channel

9. Santa Rosa Island in 1967

10. Early KH Pentagon

11. CORONA/SPOT Pan comparison

12. Mass imagery Georegistration Multiple copies Mosaicing Revisit and change detection All needed new hardware, training, methods etc

13. PIC (Steuart Bldg) 5 th and K Sts., NW (Navy Yard Bldg 213 in January 1963)

14. Kodak Film Processor

15. Budget Pressure NRO/CIA budget also deep black OMB and congress seek to make use of money already spent as mission became less critical 1973 OMB report acknowledges civil role Civil backs up intelligence/military (e.g. Gulf War I)

16. New 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”

17. White, 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)

18. Deep Black Burrows (1986)

19. CAC Charter “…facilitate civilian agencies’ use of classified systems and coordinate the incorporation of photography, derived data, and technology in performance of domestic civilian functions…”

20. Dredging and gold extraction

21. Tsaidam Basin China: RED DOT

22. Autometrics: Africa Mosaic

23. CORONA and archeology

24. Goleta, CA: 24K Revision

25. Today 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

26. CORONA and GLIS/EarthExplorer

27. KH-7 Hanoi 6/11/67

28. KH-7 Moscow 4/6/79

29. KH-9 Buenos Aires 10/31/74