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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Sept. 17, 1964
KU to Coordinate 8 Laboratories In Perfection of Satellite Radar
The University of Kansas will coordinate a $1,800,000 research project at eight university and government laboratories to perfect radar techniques for one of the first orbiting research laboratory satellites, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has announced.
Work will begin immediately at several locations in the U.S. and Canada.
The project, one of the largest of its kind ever undertaken at the University, is expected to span three years. It will be directed by Prof. Richard K. Moore of the KU Center for Research, Inc., assisted by Robert Ellermeier, instructor of electrical engineering.
THE KU-DIRECTED research will test many kinds of radar and radiometry equipment, and will make recommendations about how various types could be used aboard a satellite.
Radar and radiometry devices may ride the first manned, orbiting spacecraft around the moon, which may be launched sometime in 1969. The radar can map the surface of the moon before Americans land there, perhaps in 1970.
A main reason for the research, Moore said, is that little is known about how well radar performs at such high altitudes in surveying vast land areas. Only in relatively recent earth satellite flights has radar been taken to altitudes approximating that of the moon probe.
Moore is an authority on highaltitude radar and has served as a consultant to U.S. government agencies in interpreting radar data from earth satellites.
FOUR SENIOR geographers and geologists from KU and at least four geology and geography graduate students will have major roles in the research. David Simonett, associate professor of geography, will be their group leader.
Others include Joe Eagleman, assistant professor of geography, Louis Dellwig, professor of geology, and M. E. Bickford, associate professor of geology.
Of the first year's allocation of almost $600,000 from NASA, more than $230,000 will go for work at the Center for Research on the Lawrence campus of the University.
Other research will be at the Air Force Wright Air Development Center, Dayton, Ohio; Acadia University, Nova Scotia; Ohio State University; the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at California Institute of Technology; the Naval Research Laboratory; the U.S. Army Waterways
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Experiment Station, Vicksburg Miss., and the Geodesy Intelligence and Mapping Research and Development Agency, Ft. Belvoir, Va.
PART OF THE investigation will involve flying "radar laboratory" airplanes from the Wright Air Development Center and Naval Research Laboratory over selected sites in the continental United States and Hawaii to test capabilities of electronic sensing devices. It will be determined from the flights how well various kinds of equipment detect ground moisture, soil and rock types, vegetation, and ground features, such as geological faults and coastline detail.
A second part of the research will be done at KU, where radar, geography, and geology specialists will attempt to match radar theory with performance, and show how an orbiting radar-radiometer laboratory can increase knowledge of the earth's surface and its daily changing moisture, vegetation, and snow cover.
The geographers and geologists will interpret what the radar "sees" as it scans simulated miniature planetary surfaces in KU laboratories. They also will advise how to set up radar experiments over areas of the United States.
ONE TECHNIQUE will be the use of radar color mapping. The geoscientists hope to translate radar signals into colors to represent varying surface features. An article in the July 24 issue of Time magazine explained the success NASA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers already have had with related radar procedures.
Other radar data will be fed into KU's new IBM 7040 computer, which is to be installed this fall at the University Computation Center. The computer will provide statistical information from radar signals bounced off of rough surfaces.
Enrollment at KU Chosen By 47 State Award Winners
Kenneth R. Gray, Ulysses; Willma Rae Brothers, Wichita; Margaret L Crist, Brewster; William Gene Morton, Hill City; Louise Teresa Barker, Louisburg; Larry David Shannon, Kansas City; Robert Joseph Harrop, Topeka; Donna Jean Slover, Arkansas City; Janice Marie Furnish, Paola; Bryan Kent Marshall, Fredonia.
Robert Louis Satake, Fort Scott;
Carolyn Kay Campbell, Wichita;
Charles C. Yockey, Lyndon; Karen
Jean Schlueter, Wichita; Jo Ann
Shipley, Kansas City
The program, now in its second year, was authorized by the 1963 Legislature. It is administered by the State Department of Public Instruction and provides for the payment of a winner's fees at any Kansas college or university in full up to $500 a year.
Forty-seven of the 200 1964 high school graduates who first qualified as stipend winners in the Kansas State Scholarship Program signified that they would enroll in the University of Kansas.
Charles A. Shoup, Scranton; Robert George Honish, Oakley; Betty May Corkill, Valley Center; Marilyn Sue Moore, Kansas City; Oneita F. Taylor, Kansas City; Barbara Louise Cochrane, Hoisington; Cheryl Sue Milford, Kingman; Judy Lorene Reece, Medicine Lodge; Karen K. Stullken, Lakin; Robert C. Nelson, Herington.
The 47 winners, all freshmen who chose KU are: Marilyn K. Vermillion, Mulvane; Shirley Anne Chegwidden, Sylvan Grove; Anita L. Van Gaasbeck, Nortonville; Richard Edward Bailey, Minneapolis; Robert G. Wittsell, Uniontown; Judith C. Cady, Beloit; Janice M. Brenner, Parsons; Linda Sue Nemeth, Oberlin; Doris Elaine Johnson, Luray; Llona June Marshall, Fort Scott.
Susan M. Saidon, Zurich; H.
Michael Dickerson, Prairie Village;
Sara Ann Bly, Arkansas City;
Nancy Jane Helberg, Phillipsburg;
Glenn Raymond Walker, Brookville;
Dorn Sue Barlow, Haven; Margery Ann Golden, Ottawa; Cheryl Susan Hammerli, Topeka; Dorothy Sloan, Norton; Bonita Ann Holland, Harper; Michael Jack Lowe, Winona; Hugh Robert Bailey, Emporia.
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