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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, February 16, 1972
THE BATTAllO ^
NASA increases Remote Sensing Center grant by 25 per cen
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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.
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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.
James, assistant professor of
civil engineering, heads the wa
ter quality studies, including op
eration of pollution research ves
sels in the
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