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features Satellite mapping detects tree disease United Press International NEW YORK — Satellite map ping has given new meaning to the old gag about not being able to see the forest for the trees. Scientists have discovered it’s easier to detect disease in forest trees from a satellite 440 miles up in the skies than by walking among the trees on the ground. St. Regis uses satellites to monitor two and a half million acres of forests in Florida, Geor gia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Ala bama and Texas. Other paper and timber companies also use aerial satellites to measure their forests and are increasingly starting to use them to monitor the condition of the trees. Using satellites to map the shifting area of forests in wet and dry seasons has been going on for some time. NASA, the United Nations and countries along the Sahel, the fragile green belt on the southern edge of the Sahara desert in Africa, get data from a satellite that pin points the most stable grazing and planting areas of the Sahel as they change. The nomadic tribes who live in that part of the world then are advised by local officials where the best vegetation is and are moved to these areas. This pre vents overgrazing and over planting and slows the desert’s relentless growth towards the Gulf of Guinea area of the Atlantic. Satellite mapping and moni toring also is widely used for spreading flood and forest fire alarms in many parts of the world, and for making detailed maps that will serve as guides for the best use of land resources. For St. Regis and other corpo rate and government users, the most difficult part of satellite mapping and monitoring pro jects is on the ground, training the computer to analyze proper ly the data the instruments in the satellite collect, said Bob Barker, manager of St. Regis’s Forest Resources Information System. If you accomplish that, you can get marvelous results, said Bud Goodrich, a St. Regis ex pert in image processing. He said he stuck his neck out by saying a green area on a slide projection from a satellite photo was thick pine and that it would yield 35 cords or more wood to the acre. “When we made a land inspection we found we were right on the nose,” he said. The satellite covers the earth in a corkscrew rotation, scan ning the same path once every 18 days, thus making up to 20 complete sets of photos a year, subject to cloud conditions, at a cost of fractions of a penny an acre. The satellites already in orbit can measure energy reflections sufficiently to distinguish ever greens from hardwoods and soybeans from corn. The next group not only will detect dis ease m vegetation but insect in festations, not to mention re mote fires that can’t be detected by the eye from an airplane. The saving in money and time in comparison with convention al ground timber surveying is astronomical, Barker said. St. Regis said it expects satel lite monitoring and mapping to provide absolute proof that t the nited States really is facing a major crisis of timberland deple tion and must resort to a great expansion of professional man agement of privately owned tim- berlands, particularly in the southern states. With a rack full of chairs, why would anyone sit on dirty ground? Gary Stone, a freshman electrical engineering major from Houston, said: “It’s just more comfortable here.” Stone was sitting on the steps of the walkway between| Memorial Student Center and Rudder Tower, chairs were being used for the arts and crafts! in the square Thursday. Association of Former Students Spring Senior Induction Banquets April 14 & 15, 1982 6:30 p.m. M.S.C. All May and August graduates are invited to attend. Com plimentary tickets will be available April 5-9 in the lobby of the Forsyth Alumni Center. Banquet is free — but you must have a ticket to attend. Rabbi finds Army life busy Rick Aire^ ihed Press International the U.S. Army’s biggest post? I HOOD — What is Almost everything, there for a Jewish rabbi to do on c ap t. Jacob Rand, the only United FORI CORRECTION BATTLE OF THE BANDS APRIL 8 in the TICKETS GIVEN ON FIRST COME — FIRST SERVED BASIS GROVE with e) f/a' D) Now Better Than Ever. You Will Be Pleased With These Carefully Prepared and Taste Tempting Foods. 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As an afterthought, he’s also the only rabbi in the Army qualified to perform ritual circumcision. “The battalion commander, Lt. Col. George Bonbel, has been very helpful and under standing,” he said. “Because 1 wear both hats — battalion cha plain and rabbi for the post — there’s sometimes a need for the Jewish chaplain to come out of his corner and do his tiling." Rand, 39, has been a rabbi for 10 years and an army chaplain since October 1980. So how did an Orthodox Rab bi find himself in the Army? Well, Rand credits his parents for giving him an upbringing centered on religious life in Pas saic, N.J. His three brothers are rabbis, his sister is a medical re searcher married to an Israeli Army officer. The military part dates back to childhood, Rand said. “My mom wanted to dress me up for a picture when I was 5 years old,” Rand says. “I was dressed not as a cowboy or a rab bi, but as a soldier. Perhaps that was where I started my military interest.” After graduating from Yeshi- va University, Rand returned to Passaic for four years, then on to a ministry in Massachusetts. “While I was spiritual rabbi in New Bedford, Mass., I joined the reserves, an engineer batta lion, and I found a great need for a ministry for not only Jew ish people, but for people I was responsible to,” he said. “I loved my six years in the pulpit, but I have found great reward here. 1 came in to: commitment of three year® right now I’m thinkinjJ career in the Army." 4 I n addition to a lullpnal <>l jewish chapel senic&r events, cultural and ethil dies and a Hebrew scMl 30 students, Rand's coira lion includes civiliansfr«| Fort Hood suburbs of Si I larker Heights and Cm C love, and from thenearluj of Belton and Temple, For the troops, heevemj kosher kitchen and It's a big job for onemt Rand says he gets a lot 1 mm the outside. from Hon course ch Pape buys “We’ve received a lotol port through jewish ™ Board, which is amccrndj service men and women] United Press WAYNE, N. amp Corp. i paper process with the purcht Corp., a Spa based bag make than $20 millio h William B. F dent and gene said. “We have a lay Iqf 'Union Camp’s 1st (.lass Steve Nat qualified, in case fm i able, to be the o leader.” Flic military is a | vironment fora rabbi to wi Sion, Tuesday plants will be a j plement to Uni ties. Union Camp ail bag plants he sa\ s, given theatnjtpsp and Tifton, Ga. tolerance traditional in mi'and New Hope clergy. ' pany already li Container mam Chaplains have to u in Spartanburg, approach of being ecpwfe Last Deceml he said. “T here are cert© N t firm and gious tites that should 1 an a g reemen [ j lot ined only by chaplains! 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