Re: Newbie with questions

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This thread has gotten around to the obviously practical; balloons.  Back when
I was a brand-new 2nd LT., I went to a symposium on photogrammetry & balloons.
I think it was 1969...

There's a gentleman in Arizona somewhere that has a business specializing in
tethered balloon photogrammetry (less than 300 feet, I think).

He contacted me in the past six months, asked for a demo copy of my software;
I haven't heard from him since.

There are people in the Northwest and Midwest that use tethered balloons for
photogrammetric analyses of traffic accident scenes.  (Usually long after the
fact.)

Photogrammetry & rockets is usually camera on the ground, rocket in the air.
(It's called Ballistic Photogrammetry.)  I've got a Ballistic Camera, it's
about 275 pounds (double hernia in a box), and was manufactured by the WILD
company in Switzerland.  Original cost $77,000.  When converted to a telescope,
it's remarkably effective for looking at Co-eds up to a mile away.

The WILD BC-4 was originally used by Helmut Schmid at Aberdeen Proving Grounds
in the 1950's.  Later used at White Sands & Kwajelein Atoll.  I've got one of
the very few ever sold by the U.S. Government.  It's gorgeous, it's white;
and as useful as the elephant of the same color.

Clifford J. Mugnier  (cjmce@xxxxxxx)
Topographic Engineering Laboratory
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana  70148
Voice: (504) 280-7095
FAX:         280-7095


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