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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 16, 1972)
Page 4 College Station, Texas Wednesday, February 16, 1972 THE BATTAllO ^ NASA increases Remote Sensing Center grant by 25 per cen Sc An additional $150,000, repre senting a 25 per cent increase over the previous year’s grant, has been awarded by the Na tional Aeronautics and Space Ad ministration to the Kemote Sens ing Center of A&M. Dr. John W. Rouse, Jr., ESC director and principal investiga tor for the grant, said this brings the total amount awarded the university to near $1 million since the first grant was secured in 1962 by Dr. John C. Calhoun, Jr., now vice president for aca demic affairs at A&M. Dr. Cal houn obtained the initial sum of $100,000 for three years as an interdisciplinary engineering grant. A&M was the first university in the state to receive such a grant from NASA. Dr. Rouse said since 1969 the grants have been devoted almost exclusively to remote sensing. The present grant provides for expansion of applications of re search in water and air quality determinations. The program includes research fundamentals for interpretation Senate ratifies Seabed Arms Control Treaty WASHINGTON OP)—The Sen ate Tuesday ratified the Seabed Arms Control Treaty which is intended to ban placing of nu clear weapons on the ocean floor. The vote was 83 to 0. One in a decade-long series of arms-control documents, the sea bed treaty exempts nuclear mis sile-firing submarines, and other vessels which may propel them selves to strategic resting places on the seabed. Nations signing the treaty- Red China and France have not —have free emplacement zones in coastal waters out to 12 miles. These areas would be prime for emplacement of nuclear mines, for example. A Pentagon representative said in hearings on the treaty that “we have no plans for do ing what the treaty would for bid.” The Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, Sen. J. W. Fulbright, D-Ark., said his sup port for the treaty “is based on the judgment that it will do no harm rather than a feeling that it accomplishes much.” The truly significant arms- control treaty would be the agreement at the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks between the United States and the Soviet Union, Fulbright said. President Nixon urged approv al of the treaty saying, “the sea bed is man’s last frontier on earth, and that frontier should be the source of promise. This treaty represents a practical and timely step toward helping pro tect this new environment.” Contract awarded for landing system The awarding of a $39,520 con tract to Schouten Construction Co. of Denver, Colo., for installa tion of an instrument landing system at Easterwood Airport has been announced by Cong. Olin E. Teague. The ILS installation, which will allow landings under more ad verse weather conditions, is part of an overall project to repair and improve the community air port owned and operated by A&M. Last summer the A&M Uni versity System Board of Direc tors awarded a $569,735 contract to Young Brothers Inc. of Waco for renovating the facility. The contract runway repairs and site preparation for the ILS. The FAA awarded the univer sity a matching grant to help fi nance renovation work. The fed eral government, however, is paying the entire cost for the ILS equipment installation. Airport Manager Truett B. Smith said ILS work will begin about March 1 and is scheduled to be completed by July. He es timated overall renovation work is approximately one-third com plete. OUR SPECIALTY 1/5 Carat Eye Clean Diamond For Senior Ring, $40 plus tax C. W. Varner & Sons Jewelers North Gate 846-5816 of space satellite data related to water quality study and micro- wave applications to detect oil slicks, soil moisture content and sea surface conditions in the Houston-Galveston areas. Other aspects relate to studies into rangeland conditions and plant viruses. Dr. Rouse said much study is concerned with identifying and documenting specific agricultural problems in Texas for which present remote sensing tech niques have potential application. He said the agricultural work is coordinated with more than 30 research stations of the univer sity. Remote sensing research can determine inventory and utiliza tion of rangeland in Texas. Dr. Rouse said it can develop tech niques for determining early de tection of virus in crops, espe cially among the primary food producers such as rice, wheat, corn and sorghum. Use of the $150,000 is restricted to remote sensing research as a support to NASA’s earth observations pro gram at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. In the overall environmental problems, he said: “We are try ing to find ways to get new tools into the hands of people who are responsible for problems relating to the environment.” Most federal funds have been cut back in recent years, Rouse noted. The RSC received a grant last year and this year the grant was increased. “This attests to the effectiveness and value of the program we are conducting,” Rouse pointed out. He said six professionals and eight to ten graduate students are involved. The rangeland study is headed by Dr. Robert H. Haas, assistant professor of range sciences, who directs the vegetations systems laboratory; Dr. Robert W. Toler, assistant professor of plant sciences, con ducts the virus studies; Dr. Wil liam T. Mayo, assistant professor in electrical engineering, heads the air quality instrumentation developments; J. A. Schell, direc tor of the data analysis labora tory, conducts studies on the use of advanced computer techniques for the interpretation of remote sensor data; Dr. Wesley P. 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