Salton Sea Telemetrics

"According to Mr. Stuart Ward, a valley resident who lived and worked at Salton Sea Base, the optical equipment used at Salton Sea Base was some of that captured from the Germans-- extremely accurate Askania cameras--and also high speed 35 mm Mitchells. These and other special purpose cameras enabled the ground observers to record events of a very fast action and short time duration, too fast for the human eye. Planes from the Air Force Special Weapons Center and the Naval Air Special Weapons Facility performed the drops. A variety of instruments were used to receive coded information transmitted by automatic electronic devices installed within a falling device. When this data was decoded and coordinated, it was possible to develop a complete report on behavior of equipment within the bomb as well as certain physical phenomena. Instrument stations were located on the land area and a target was installed approximately 7000 feet offshore. Technical facilities were operated by Sandia Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was reported that space capsule parachutes, drone airplanes, and Nike missles were tested at Salton Sea Base. Some of the activities are still on the classified list." - www.sci.sdsu.edu

PHOTOTHEODOLITE: An arrangement of two photographic cameras, the plates of which may be brought into exactly the same plane, used in surveying and map making. From the differences between two pictures taken at the same moment, measurements in all dimensions of the region may be obtained.

Technical Reference: AUTOMATIC FIXED-CAMERA ORIENTATION PROCEDURES. Keywords relating to this report: ARTIFICIAL SATELLITES - ASTRONOMICAL CAMERAS - AUTOMATIC - BALLISTIC CAMERAS - CALIBRATION - CAMERAS - CELESTIAL NAVIGATION - COMPUTER PROGRAMMING - COMPUTERS - CONTROL - ELECTRONICS - GUIDED MISSILES - LEAST SQUARES METHOD - MATRICES(MATHEMATICS) - MEASUREMENT - NIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY - PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT - PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES - PHOTOTHEODOLITES - POSITION FINDING - SIMULATIONZ - SIMULATIONZASTRONOMICAL CAMERAS

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from Part 2:

AN ENGINEERED GRAPHIC DOUBLE
OF THE PROPPED UP SONY BONO
AS A CHILD WORKS THE SALTON SEA
MARINA CIRCUIT, DRIFTING THRU
THE MAZE-ABUNDANT SIZOMATIC EYE
BALL TUNNELS DUG BY SPEC’D OUT
PIRATE DIGGERS USING LASER
CAMERA NEUTRONS TRACED BY
SMART THREADY NEGATIVE STUFF
THAT TURNED 2 SPACE THE STUFF
IT TOUCHED.