An Introduction to Imagery Analysis
More fun and entertaining U.S. Army training materials, this time an “Introduction to Imagery Analysis”. Like most of these other textbooks, it’s a decade or two out of date (RF-111? RF-4? Huh?) but still interesting - if only to see how things were done back before computers controlled the world.
Some of the sample imagery is fairly interesting, at least from a technical perspective:
A vertical panorama of an airfield, shot by an RF-4C.
There’s also some actually useful references, like this guide to interpreting photo markings:
…and even some great old illustrations of the sort that you just don’t get in today’s highly-polished field manuals:
The 7MB PDF file can be downloaded right here.
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