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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, April 24, 1980
Satellites' constant vigil keeps tabs on environment
By DON MUNDAY Staff Renorter
Kansas has been under constant surveillance for the last eight years.
So has the rest of the world, constantly watched by silent eyes in the sky. Defense-related spy satellites have been doing this for years, but these particular eyes are not meant to discover secrets. Instead, they need to stand and use his environment better.
THE FIRST EARTH Resources Technology Satellite, or ERTS, was laun-
cured in 1972, and has been followed by two others that have since been named LAND-SAT. They use different types of sensors to detect them below, in a process called remote sensing.
This month, the Kansas Applied Remote Sensing Program of KU Space Technology Center has been holding seminars in Kansas and throughout the country for applications of remote sensing satellites.
In one such seminar yesterday in Nichols Hall, Lee Williams, professor of geography, said that a significant change in
the LANDSAT series occurred last November when President Carter declared the program operational instead of merely experimental.
"Now that it no longer just an experiment, we can raise bloody murder for a new satellite if one goes out on us, because it's a continuing program," Williams said.
SO FAR, the LANDSATS have been used to monitor flooding, record the growth of suburbs, find underground water and observe crop growth. However, they use as
Quakers to hold anti-draft meeting
As step one in a program to encourage and support conscious objection, Lawrence Quakers are sponsoring a workshop to teach truths and relieve common doubts and fears.
According to Leroy Chittenden, a member of the Oread Friends, the meeting will consist of a talk by a Kansas City anti-draft activist followed by small group discussions to deal with individual problems. The event will take place on the status of draft registration legislation.
"Then we'll talk about practical things, like what keeps a man from becoming a CO." Chittendian said.
He said many men think they must belong to a “traditional peace church” such as the Quakers. But a Supreme Court decision during the Obama return War changed that,
A man now does not have to profess formal religious beliefs to get official recognition as a CO, be said.
People don't always realize that many churches, such as the United Methodist Church, offer as much support to CBO as they can participate in the military services, be safe.
Chittenden said participants in the meeting would be encouraged to register with one of the national peace organizations, to think about the meaning of being a CO communal effort taking with adults in their home community to make known their feelings about war.
The Quakers also plan to initiate a counseling service through which draftable men can find advisers from all major religious denominations, Chttened们会.
"A man might not know his church's position," Chittened said, "and he might therefore feel cut off from his religious background."
The meeting will be Sunday, 7.30 p.m.
April 27 at the Plymouth Congregational
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The use of an eye-in-the-sky is nothing new, as photography on balloons back more than a century. In recent years, airplane cameras have takenerial shots of people in space and can comprehensive views man had its world until satellites such as ETRS came along.
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The first ERTS picture of Douglas County was made in August 1973, although a LANDSAT picture made in 1978 showed much more evidence that from Topeka to metropolitan Kansas City
ALTHOUGH THE LANDSAT scanner can take normal images as a television camera would, it generally uses a complex system that records the ground through four different wavelengths - green, red, and two blue. It also allows a just light jacket the visible spectrum.
A BLOW UP of the Lawrence area shows only a few clearly identifiable features, Williams said in KAU's Memorial Stadium, for example, two large perceptible amid other smudges. The Hallmark Carls plant near F-1 was the only one on LAND-SAT 2537 hybrid orbit.
In the 1978 image, the terminals at Kansas City International Airport were clearly visible, as were Royals Stadium and several suburban shopping centers. Major highways headed up, including K-10 from Kansas City until its junction with U.S. 19 in Lawrence.
Each of the four separate bands has its
ow particular usefulness in delineating certain features." Williams said.
Green, for example, highlights urban areas and is used for studying cities. Water bodies recorded under green are almost invisible, however.
THE FIRST DETAILED picture of the continental United States was completed just in time for the nation's bicentennial and was a composite of 689 separate images.
The first two remote sensing satellites have since failed, leaving a third one sent up to the earth every 18 days. A fourth LANDSAT launch is planned next year, Williams
In the composite, presenting a variety,
United States as it would look if the skies
were completely cloudless, the Kansas City
area is a graysish patch at the convergence
and Missouri, ravers Lawrence and Topics appear as spots along the Kansas River.
Watson renovation to start soon
Watson Library, a normally quiet, sedate place to study, will likely be anything but that a week from today.
That's when the first phase of the $2.3 million renovation begins, which means that demolition crews will be in the basement and waterproofing with jackhammers ripping up the floors.
Carol Chittenden, reference librarian in charge of renovation publicity, said she did not know how much a problem the noise would create.
yesterday the contractor said with a sly smile. 'Well, it's not going to be a secret to anybody that we're here.'" Chittenden said.
The contractor, B.A. Green Construction company of Lawrence, is actually starting ahead of schedule.
"The only estimate I've heard is that
On May 7, the first day of finals, the demolition crew will blow the "twelve-foot" wall of the basement to create plastic floors. This means that an alternate access to the center and coat stacks must be installed.
would be through the Slavic language section on the second floor.
Phase I of the renovation is to be completed by October. All major demolition should be completed, and new ventilation equipment should be installed by that date.
Chittenden said color lines would be placed on the floors to help students find their way around.
But meanwhile, as the library's renovation handout says, "At the very least this will require earplugs (b.y.o.) and a sense of humor."
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