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Table 9-1
HIGHLIGHTS IN THE HISTORY OF REMOTE SENSING*
I. Photographic Methods
1759 |
First statements by Lambert (France) of principles underlying photogrammetry |
1839 |
First ever photographs by Daguerre and Nepce, in France |
1840 |
French used photos in making topographic maps. |
1850’s |
Photographs important in documenting exploration of the U.S. West (through 1870’s). |
1855 |
Maxwell proposed proof of trichromatic color vision by photographic experiments (1861; Sutton). |
1858 |
Pictures of Paris from cameras mounted in free and captive balloons. |
1862 |
Du Hauron analyzed multispectral imagery with single-lens beam splitter technique. |
1860’s |
Claims of photos for military observations from balloons during American Civil War; none survive. |
1870’s |
Simple additive color projection and viewing developed. |
1880’s |
Camera airborne on kites in England, France, Russia. |
1895 |
First color separations produced. |
1895 |
Photos used by Seville in topographical surveys in Canada. |
1900 |
Ives invented three-lens multispectral camera. |
1903 |
Cameras attached to carrier pigeons. |
1909 |
Wilbur Wright took first photos (movies) from an airplane. |
1909 |
Berthon’s lenticular color film process for additive system. |
1910 |
Orel-Zeiss Stereoautograph: precursor to serial stereo-photos. |
1915 |
Aerial photos used by British R.A.F. for reconnaissance, changing tactics of work in W.W.I. |
1917 |
Unites States Signal corps used aerial photos in Mexican border war. |
1920 |
Aerial photos used by petroleum geologists for exploration. |
1923 |
Zeiss Stereoplanegraph. |
1924 |
Multilayered color film developed. |
1930 |
First aerial spectrophotography of the Earth by Krinov and colleagues (Russia). |
1930’s |
Extensive use of aerial photos in Earth sciences and agriculture. |
1931 |
Testing of aerial IR sensitive film from stratospheric balloon. |
1935 |
Kodachrome appeared on market. |
1937 |
Color film used in aerial surveys. |
1938 |
Bausch and Lomb multiplex photogrammetric plotter. |
1940 |
Kelsh plotters came into wide use. |
1940 to 1943 |
Rapid advances in development of black-and-white and color IR (CIR) film for camouflage detection and haze penetration. |
1941 |
Eardley’s Aerial Photos: Their Use and Interpretation published |
1940 to 1945 |
Tremendous strides in aerial photography and photogrammetry resulting from W.W.II military needs. |
1944 |
First edition of AS’s Manual of Photogrammetry. |
1944 |
Military studies of water-depth penetration by two-band aerial photography. |
1947 |
Publication of Krinov’s Spectral Reflectance Properties of Natural Materials. |
1950’s |
Orthophoto mapping became popular. |
1952 |
Color aerial photos used in geological mapping. |
1953 |
Colwell (U.S.) demonstrated detection of disease and stress in vegetation (published 1956). |
1950’s |
Term “Remote Sensing” first used (generally ascribed to Evelyn Pruitt; see footnote on page Intro-1). |
1956 |
Soviets published on spectro-zonal photography for mapping soils. |
1960’s |
Color film entered into common use in aerial photography. |
1960 |
Colwell’s Manual of Photointerpretation and Ray’s Aerial Photographs in Geologic Interpretation and Mapping published. |
1960’s |
Considerable activity in multispectral photography applications. |
1960 |
Wheeler’s colorvision additive multispectral system. |
1962 |
United States and Russian nine-lens multispectral cameras; Itek camera (ten lens) in 1963. |
1963 |
USAF built Additive Color Viewer-Printer |
1964 |
NASA inaugurated programs in testing usefulness of multiband photography for Earth resources. |
1965 |
Multispectral additive color system developed by Yost and Wenderoth. |
1967 |
First practical uses of UV photography. |
1967 |
Two-volume Earth Resources Surveys from Space prepared by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. |
1968 |
ASP’s Manual of Color Aerial Photography. |
1968 |
SO65 multispectral photography experiment on Apollo-9 |
1975 |
Publication of ASP’s Manual of Remote Sensing. |
Primary Author: Nicholas M. Short, Sr. email: nmshort@nationi.net