RE: Cardboard cutouts and backdrops...

[P3D Cliff Mugnier <cjmce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Wier said:

I recall reading that in the military, there were some photo-interp
guys working with stereo aerial photos  8 hours per day on a continuous
basis (to make topo maps, for example,you can take overlapping photos 
straight
down from a plane, then use them in a stereo plotter to draw the
contours). I can't recall - it may have been as far back at WWII or
Korea.

I told the story as it was related to me by Mr. John Baber who was a 
Leftennant (sp?) in the British Royal Engineers during WWII.  It happened 
to him (he said) and his men during the preparations for the Normandy 
Invasion.


Clifford J. Mugnier (cjmce@xxxxxxx)
The Topographic Engineering Laboratory
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS
New Orleans, Louisiana  70148 -2212
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