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11 June 1968 

MEMORANDUM FOR REC~. 

SUBJECT: ARGO Steering Committee Meeting 10 June 1968 

This is the first meeting of the ARGO Steering Committee since the original ARGO Report was published~ 

The committee is chaired by Dr. Steininger, Technical 

Assistant, Office of Science and Technology, EOB, Re~ 

mainder of committee is made up of the following: 

DOD 

CIA 

NPIC 

NASA 

OEP 

AID 

USGS 

ESSA 

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Mr. Tidwell 

Mr. 

Mr. 

Mr. 

Mr. 

Mr. 

Mr. 

Mr. 

Leonard Jaffee 

Harry Mahlum 

Kenneth F. Vernon 

John De Noyer 

David Johnson 

James S. Jordan 

Arch Park 

Dr. Steininger reported that ARGO report had been presented 

to the President, and he has agreed to use of ARGO Steering 

Committee to determine requirements of Civil Agencies for 

Satellite Photography. Dr. Steininger then outlined what 

he considered the Charter of the Committee to be: 

1. Collect and consolidate needs of each of 

the agencies for satellite photography 

2. Make needs known to the Intelligence 

Communi ty. 

3. Work out procedures with the Intelligence 

Community to make materials available to 

to various government agencies. 

The agencies will be responsible for establishing 

requirements or needs. This will not be a function of the 

Committee. General discussion-wis held as to the most 

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promising uses Satellite Photography would be for, the civil 

agencies. From this discussion it emerged that the Department 

of Agriculture and AID were interested in foreign crop production and distribution (acreage). This appears to be a'rather easily 

coordinated requirement with the Intelligence Community since 

AID and Agriculture both stated ample records and data are 

available on all areas of the world except the Sino-Soviet Bloc. 

Mr. Tidwell prophesied if this was a major area of interest, 

coverage would not be too"difficult to obtain. AID also stated 

that they hoped to use Satellite Photography for some population estimated work; however, they stated this needed more investigation. 

The Department of Interior (USGS) stated thqt their mission 

for mapping was cpnfined to the continental U.S.~ its possessions, 

and territories. They envisioned use of Satellite Photography 

for map revision and estuary mapping. They did not consider 

current Satellite Photography to be capable of supporting base 

compilation (new mapping in scales of 1 - 24,000). At this 

point Mr. Jaffee of NASA was visibly shaken. He asked about 

mapping outside of the confines of the U.S., and was told by 

Interior that this was the responsibility of the Corps of 

Engineers, U.S.A., and that the only mapping the Interior had 

done was in conjunction with the AID program in under-developed 

areas of the world, and these were actually done in coordination with the Army. At this point the AID representatives made 

the statement that they could no longer afford to do base mapping and that areas of the world which have been of interest 

to them was constantly being reduced in size because of the 

change in policy and an acute shortage of funds. At this point 

Mr. Jaffee was visibly sick and stated that NASA would have no 

further comment onthe ARGO Program until they could study its 

effect on the Earth Resources Program. 

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Mr. Tidwell explained to the group how the Intelligence Community 

established requirements and had them approved and what his role . 

in this was. He also told the Steering Group about recent B1-

Spectral Experiments and offered to make this material available 

to them including material taken over the Bloc. He also told 

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the Steering Group that there were some efforts being made 

by members of this Agency to have each of the users pay for the 

% of mission used to meet his requirements, i.e., cost/ft. 

of film. Mr. Tidwell stated he was opposed to this but 

did not know what final outcome would be. 

ESSA stated that their primary requi~ement for Satellite 

Photography appeared to be in the field of Hydrolbgy (snowcover) and Sea Ice Surveys. They stated Oceanography would 

have to wait (or should wait) until Multi-Spectral Sensors 

are developed. OEP stated their major requirement was for 

City coverage by KH-4. They stated NPIC is currently mosaicin~ 

60 cities in the U.S. for them arid has 60 or 70 more to do. 

These city plans are kept at Ft. Richie at the National 

Emergency Headquarters. 

Dr~ Steininger, at this point, stated he felt the best 

way to proceed in the future, was for the Committee to publish 

a series of papers on proposed studies, Pilot Program, etc .. 

Initially, he envisioned tmfollowing papers over the next 

two-three months: 

1 .. Crop Asses~ment.and Population ~tudies - AID 

,2. Snow Coverage and Estuary Mapping- ESSA 

3. Geography and Map Revis ion - USGS 

4. City Coverage - OEP 

5. Basic Mapping - Delineation of Countries of 

of Interest - AID in Coordination with DOD 

6~ Sea Ice Surveillanc~ - ESSA 

Dr. Steininger fixed the next meeting at 1000 hours, 

10' July.1968, at the Executive Office Building. 

Th~ meeting was adjourned at 11:50 a.m. 

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