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Thursday, August 24, 1972
University Daily Kansan
KU Lab Conducts Environmental Study
3y JOLENE HARWOOD Kansan Staff Writer
Studies be conducted at the University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc. using remote sensing devices to obtain environmental information. County area could be of help to various county programs, according to John C. Barr, Shawnee County Health Services research assistant for the project.
The Remote Sensing Laboratory is an interdisciplinary group interested in detecting features of the Earth's surface and devices carried on aircraft and spacecraft. The devices include radar, laser scanners and cameras.
The aerial photography being done in Douglas County is now
being used to record the features and characteristics of the area, Barr said.
The Project's first flight was conducted May 18.
"AT THAT time, four cameras were used," Barr said, "which took pictures of the room (pictures) utilizing different filter combinations to separate the two images."
These multibands, made with different filters, allow the seed to germinate between crops as well as to discover various crop problems and dis-
Each picture covers 6.76 square miles. The entire county can be covered in 138 separate pieces. There are pieces into an uncontrolled mosaic. It takes approximately three hours to photograph Douglas County, Barr said.
Aerial photographs will be taken monthly during November with two sets being taken in early spring. These multi-date bands will reveal changes in crops during the 30 day periods when one crop is planted.
THESE DATA will then be fed into the IDECS (Image Discrimination Enhancement Combination System) which will give access to agricultural resources to distribute between crops, Barr said.
For example, comparisons could be make of crops grown in different soils within the county.
The object is to utilize this information in making land us maps. The maps we would show such differentials as crop land, new and old residential areas under development.
The Remote Sensing Laboratory, as an interdisciplinary organization, combines its projects with other units that hoped that this cooperation will extend to various county programs and that the University will be able to provide an aerial survey data base for Douglas County.
Prof Combines Courses In Education and History
ny MARY PITMAN
Kansan Staff Writer
Ray Himer, associate professor of education, straddles two distinct academic worlds in his double appointment to the School of Education and the history of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The difficulty of juggling two jobs and having two bosses has been for Hiner negligible in comparison with the rewards.
"You get to know so many different kinds of people," explained Hiner. "medieval education in elementary education, top."
Specialization is necessary for competence, said Hiner, but also keeps people and disciplines apart. The tension Hiner feels between his two specialties has only spurred his creative attempt to overcome the gap between education and history, and to reveal their interdependence.
THIS INTERDEPENDENCE is nowhere more obvious than in the courses Hiner offers each year. He's taught very few universities, "Culture and Innovation in America from 1607 to the present under both education and history.
The real innovation of Hiner's unique course revolves around his broad definition of education as "the means by which men defend the values and beliefs of the school." In Hiner's terms, education embraces not only the public school system but also all forms of media, the entire process of raising, and the ceremonies and rituals of升华ly" shape an individual.
"For an individual," said Hiner, "education is the means by which he acquires his identity."
COURSE READINGS sometimes focus on the "selling" or education of a particular person, such as Benjamin Franklin; and sometimes zoom out for a broad perspective on the problems of various American communities as they attempt to transmit their culture.
Hiner thought Daniel Boorstein's book "The Image" was for students possibly the most provoking course. As a companion to the book, she sent Marshall McClure as the message, "the MESSAGE," McLuhan, said.
Hiner, believes that the class-
functions not to introduce dents to new stimuli but to close them of a world that bom-
shes the earth.
BUT UNTIL time-traveling devices are perfected, Hiner believed the historian—and his an edge over electronic media.
A seminar was conducted last month to inform city, county and state agencies of the various used of the film data base. Potential uses include: land use surveys, urban planning, rangeland management, water supply information and crop yield conditions.
Hirer's own favorite text in the course is "The New England Primer" because he thought it offended a teacher and as an historian.
"An historical document like the 'Primer','said Hiner,'is a window on a culture now gone."
Hinner thought that his course often surprised students, showing them what to do and then them that came from the past. And he thought that it helped to dispel the misconception that intellectual ability is respectable intellectual inquired."
When students finish his course, "Education and Culture in the Present," said Hiner: "They present about important things about important things."
AERIAL photographs can also be used in water pollution studies to determine water currents, tides, currents and the amount of algae.
"Although we only invited 11 students and 25考生, we will provide a month before we know how much interaction was started in the seminar. The students should be ready."
The project is being funded through a three-year, $2,000,000 application grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Admiration to B. G. Barr, director of the Space Technology Laboratory.
The money provides for research into the ways in which data gathered by remote sensing can be used by local, state, regional and national programs to monitor and assess the quality of our environment.
"THE MAJOR emphasis is on the environmental aspects of the research and how the information gained can best be used to mitigate the people of Kansas as a nation," B. G. Barr said.
Through the grant it is hoped that students will be able and the data user can find a common meeting ground through workshops and seminars to aid them.
agencies to help with data gathering, thus gaining experience.
Graduate students with experience in remote sensing may be assigned to state and local
"Our goal is to apply technology to solving society's problems," B. G. Barr said.
The idea of using Douglas County in the area of remote sensing was developed by John Barr.
Several Added to Staff Of Architecture School
"Although we had test sites in other areas, we had never used Dougale County as a whole," he recalled. "We better place to start than home, Dougale County is transitional. It's a rapidly growing urban area and is also agricultural, and therefore of other areas of the state."
The School of Architecture and Urban Design has added several new faculty members to its staff for the fall semester.
Donna Luckey, Columbia, Mo. graduate, will teach for one year.
Other new faculty members are William Doyle, specializing
in architectural design, from Illinois; Basil Honikman, specializing in architectural psychology and research, from South Africa; David Henderson, specialized in design; Pat Burgess, architecture and environmental technology, from Australia.
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2 Profs Will Spend Next Year Abroad
By BARBARA STROH
Kansan Staff Writer
Europe beckoned and the call was answered by two faculty members from the School of Business.
Saunders will be the third faculty member to represent the University of Kansas at the I'Institut pour l'Etudes de de Directional 'E'entprise, better known as IMDEE.
IMEMD is a program that teaches business and management practices. It is sponsored by the Nestle Co., Lausanne University and the Lausanne school of Business. Its students come from all parts of the world and various industrial backgrounds.
Wiley MTChelle, Associate Dean in charge of graduate and un-educated students teaching in Norway for nine months next year. Switzerland will be the home of Charles B. Williams, the School of Business, next year.
Saunders will teach business policy at IMEDE and also teach at Lausanne University, which is the only IMEDE into its degree program.
Going with Saunders will be his wife and three children.
The institute allows the faculty to teach in its own building, these vacations, Saunders hoping to see several of the major cities of Europe, especially Berlin and London.
He obtained his doctorate from the University of Indiana and has been a member of the KU faculty since 1955.
This will be Saunders' first trip to Europe.
Mitchell is a graduate of KU, has a master's degree and is a public accountant. He was on the KU faculty since 1946.
Upon returning to KU next summer, he will take a faculty position in accounting.
NEMI, sponsored entirely by Scandinavian countries, will concentrate on the prime nor- moriches of the ship, ship building and fishing.
Mitchell will be one of five faculty members at the North European Management Institute (NEMI) an offshoot of IMEDE.
Joseph Pichler will replace Mitchell as associate dean of the School of Business.
THE NEWLY formed institute will provide concepts of business Northern European business between the area of 26 and 35