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Show Helpful in Agriculture, Mining Landsat Offers Satellites-Ey- e View of Earth Sweeping on a polar orbit, from more than 500 miles over the earth, the Landsat satellite gives earthlings an Olympian view of their home. Passing over Utah last fall, the satellite sensed the infrared rays reflecting from earth, translated their intensities into numerical information, then broadcast that information back to earth. Computers digested the numbers and translated them into the marvelous imagery that appears on the front of the Empire edition. Here, one sees the high Wasatch Mountains around Big and Little Cottonwood Canyons crested by the first snows of autumn. Great Salt Lake we see the Great Salt Lake with its color too, Here, clearly showing the chemical differentials of the north and south arms as they are divided by the Southern Pacific Causeway. The vast Bingham Pit of Kennecott Copper Corp. is nothing more than pock mark on the east flank of the Oquirrh Range. The infrared intepretation shows vegetated areas in red. Thus the ranges of the Wasatch and the high country to the east are crimson. The tiny red squares clearly identifies the mass of farm land to the west of the front. Bodies of Water The reservoirs Pineview, East Canyon, Echo, Rockport, Deer Creek so important to the sustenance of man appear for what they are: Pitifully finite bodies of water, all the more finite in face of the expected water shortage. On Page 9 appears a satellite photograph of the entire state. The cover picture, showing Utahs most developed1 'area and the picture of the entire state comes from a mosaic prepared by the staff of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Services Aerial Photography Field Office in Salt Lake City. The office, 2505 Parleys Way, (2120 South), is one of two in the nation that produces satellite and aerial photographs for agricultural, forestry and natural resource applications. In recent years, the service has considerably color and black enlarged its services. These pictures and white are now readily available to business, industry or to the ordinary citizen who simply fancies a satellite picture at his state to hang in his den. The office produces the pictures at cost. So, prices range from a few dollars for an color photo to up to $40 for a representation of the entire state of Utah. Choice is Immense low altitude photographs of The choice is immense your hometown and hunting haunts; satellite photographs in a variety of scales, general of Africa, Asia, America, or particular. Dont expect to spot the dog house in the back yard from a satellite picture. But it is possible to pick it out from one of the aerial photographs. The U.S. Department of Agriculture began the earth photography program in 1930s as a tool in its farm programs. Two thirds of its reproductions now are for other users. The Salt Lake Field office, headed by native Utahn Jay Longhurst, employs 88. Now pressed for space, it will move May 2 into a much larger building at 2222 W. 2300 South, which it will share with a complementary agency of the Forest Service. Good Year Ahead Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. eight-by-ten-in- black-and-whi- 1977 17, April Lake Salt The Genesis Now, by aerial and satellite reconnaissance, man can see the world as conjured up by the imagery of Genesis. And, perhaps, through his new awarenesses and insights, he has the tools to recover Eden. And how goes the recovery of Eden in Utah? In 1977, it is a timeless portrait of triumph and travail, and sweat in the face. Foreign Food Shortfall Outpaces U.S. Capacity NEW YORK (UPI) The developing nations and the Soviet Union are not going to be able to depend on the United States to make up their food shortages much longer. This grim view is the considered opinion of a number of food experts and was expressed implicitly in the Lima Declaration of the United Nations General Assembly as early as 1975. H.A.R. Powell, chairman of Massey-Ferguso- n Holdings, Ltd., of London, parent firm or one of the worlds . biggest makers of farm machinery, expressed the same view in a recent speech at Des Moines. A very similar view is voiced by Dr. M. L. Sharrah, senior vice president for research and engineering of Continental Oil Corp. in his companys forecast of economic and social trends for the rest of this century. The reason the United States cant carry the load much longer has nothing to do with American willingness, or even with American farm productivity. ' Utah apprehends the worst drought in its history. But it will probably produce another record return on its mining activities particularly coal for power generation. Oil drilling and oil production are falling off. But oil and gas leasing has soared manifestation of the abiding optimism of the minerals industry. In rocketry, Utah produces components for space vehicles that will serve in peace, or could be unleashed in war. Its air routes are linking it ever closer to the rest of the world. h products are being marketed on the continents. Its diversity of enterprise spared it the excesses of the recent inflation. Its citizens are well employed. Its financial institutions are soundly postured for new growth. The year, 1977, drought or not, should be a good year. Made-in-Uta- Aerial photo negatives of Texas dominate storage racks. Ms. Lola Britton is from Houston. |