Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Visibility Laboratory Records, 1937-2003 (bulk 1944-1987) (SAC 38)

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Restrictions: Original media recording formats are restricted. Viewing/listening copies are available for researchers.

Extent: 33.4 Linear feet (33 record cartons and 1 archives box)

Digital Content

Negative archive indices in Series 9 have been digitized, and are available through links in the container list.

The Visibility Laboratory conducted research in the fields of optics and underwater visibility. Funded primarily through U.S. government contracts, Laboratory researchers studied problems of camouflage, detection, atmospheric optics, and remote sensing of the Earth and oceans. The records document the administration and contract history of the Laboratory.

The Visibility Laboratory was founded in 1939 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) by Dr. Seibert Quimby Duntley and Dr. Arthur Hardy. Initially funded by the Works Progress Administration, the Laboratory focused on the problem of surface camouflage in the event of an aerial attack. As World War II continued, the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) broadened the Laboratory's scope of research, funding studies in target detection, the visibility of underwater objects, and the detection of downed pilots.

In 1948, on the recommendation of the National Research Council, the Visibility Laboratory received U.S. Navy support to conduct research on ocean visibility problems. This increased emphasis on oceanic research influenced the Laboratory's 1952 move from MIT to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), where it was housed at the Navy Electronics Laboratory in Point Loma, San Diego.

A successful move to SIO depended greatly on continued funding for staff and research projects while the Laboratory transitioned. Contracts were secured with the Bureau of Ships, the Office of Naval Research, and the Air Force. Once established at SIO, the Laboratory's research agenda expanded to include atmospheric optics, optical remote sensing, scientific instrumentation development, and digital image processing. This expansion was a result of the many major collaborations with international, federal, and private organizations.

At SIO, the Laboratory's research was structured in three teams: theoretical, electronic, and mechanical. These teams reported to an assistant director, who in turn reported to the director of the Visibility Laboratory. The director reported to the Vice Chancellor of Marine Sciences. The Visibility Laboratory flourished at SIO for 35 years, and was a nationally recognized expert in the field of visibility.

The Visibility Laboratory was disestablished on July 31, 1987. The size of its research staff had dwindled throughout the 1980s, and its offsite location in Point Loma had become a significant barrier to multidisciplinary research projects with SIO students and faculty. The Laboratory closed and the few remaining principal investigators transitioned to positions elsewhere at SIO, or became consultants, in order to continue their research. Major research projects underway in the late 1980s continued, in part, under Roswell Austin.

Directors

Seibert Q. Duntley: Duntley was the founding director of the Visibility Laboratory, and led the program from 1939 to 1975. Duntley established the Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), spearheaded its research throughout World War II, and guided its subsequent move to the Scripps Institute of Oceanography (SIO) in 1952. Duntley resigned as Director of the Visibility Laboratory in 1975 and continued to teach and conduct research until 1977.

James L. Harris, Sr.: Harris succeeded Duntley as director of the Visibility Laboratory in 1975, and served until his resignation in 1979. An integral part of the Laboratory's research program, he conducted studies on the mathematical modeling of human vision and digital imagery.

Roswell Austin: Roswell Austin was director of the Visibility Laboratory from 1980 to 1987, after serving as Laboratory manager for decades. Austin faced downsizing problems as many of the Laboratory's academic staff left and no suitable replacements were found. His retirement coincided with the official disestablishment of the Visibility Laboratory on July 31, 1987, though he continued to actively consult and conduct research.

The Visibility Laboratory conducted research in the fields of optics and underwater visibility. Funded primarily through U.S. government contracts, Laboratory researchers studied problems of camouflage, detection, atmospheric optics, and remote sensing of the Earth and oceans. The records document the administration and contract history of the Laboratory, from its World War II beginnings at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology until its 1987 disestablishment after more than three decades at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Arranged in nine series: 1) ADMINISTRATION, 2) CORRESPONDENCE, 3) CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS, 4) ARMED FORCES-NRC VISION COMMITTEE, 5) PROJECTS, PROPOSALS AND CONTRACTS, 6) REMOTE SENSING OF OCEAN COLOR/CZCS, 7) RESEARCH, WRITINGS AND PRESENTATIONS, 8) SUBJECT FILES, and 9) PHOTOGRAPHS.

Seibert Q. Duntley Papers. SMC 58. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

John E. Tyler Papers. SMC 168. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Rudolph W. Preisendorfer Papers. SMC 159. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Container List

ADMINISTRATION

Scope and Content of Series

Series 1) ADMINISTRATION: Administrative documents, including information about directors and staffing, moving the Lab from MIT to SIO, key memoranda, management meeting (AIM) minutes, research capability overviews, and policy documentation. It includes retrospective summaries, written by Vis Lab staff, about the Lab's mission, major projects, and scientific innovations.

Arranged chronologically within four subseries: A) Directors' Biographies and Staff, B) Capabilities and Research Areas, C) Memoranda and Policies, and D) Miscellaneous.

Directors and Staff

S. Q. Duntley

Box 1 Folder 1
Bio-bibliography forms, 1961-1974
Box 1 Folder 2
Director's notebook, 1949-1960
Box 1 Folder 3
Director's notebook, ca. 1957-1960

James L. Harris, Sr.

Box 1 Folder 4
Biographical - Resume, bibliography, career summary
Box 1 Folder 5
Harris resignation - All-hands meeting and memoranda, 1978 October-November

Roswell W. Austin

Box 1 Folder 6
High-altitude flight training certification, 1950
Box 1 Folder 7
SIO Calendar - Appointment of Austin as Vis Lab Assistant Research Engineer, 1953 April 6-11
Box 1 Folder 8
Bio-bibliography forms, 1954-1974
Box 1 Folder 9
Letters in support of promotion and career advancement, 1957, 1967
Box 1 Folder 10
Lab manager notebook, 1968
Box 1 Folder 11
Biographical, 1970-1985
Box 1 Folder 12
Director's notebook, 1979-1986

Entries on various projects, meetings, and schema.

Box 1 Folder 13
Bibliography, 1990
Box 1 Folder 14
Austin photographs, 1985
Box 1 Folder 15
Position profile - Vis Lab Director, 1976

Includes memo by Duntley to Walter Munk about history of Vis Lab with Air Force contracts and the importance of the selection of a new director.

Box 1 Folder 16
Staff bibliographies (Austin-Ensminger)

First part of binder. Includes keywords, bibliography of Vis Lab reports published in SIO Reference Series, and the following staff: Austin, Bailey, Baker, Duntley, Edwards, Ensminger.

Box 1 Folder 17
Staff bibliographies (Fitch-Wilson)

Second part of binder. Includes list of reports on the topic of remote sensing, and the following staff: Fitch, Gordon, Harris, Johnson, McGlamery, Mueller, Smith, Trees, Tyler, Wilson.

Box 1 Folder 18
Record of Laboratory employees

Capabilities and Research Areas

Box 1 Folder 19
Post-war research on visibility at MIT - Summary report, 1943-1945
Box 1 Folder 20
Aerial research program - Correspondence and memoranda, 1953
Box 1 Folder 21
Notes on the oceanographic program of the Visibility Laboratory - Prepared by Duntley for MPL Seminar, 1954 May 4
Box 1 Folder 22
Duntley, S. Q. and S. S. Ballard. A program of research in the visual detectability of distant objects, ca. 1955

Summary supported by research performed under NObsr-43356.

Box 1 Folder 23
Planning Program, 1955-1958

Includes detailed 1956 description of talks at BuShips Conference on Visibility and Concealment, and a memo by John H. Taylor summarizing vision research plans.

Box 1 Folder 24
Organizational charts, ca. 1955
Box 1 Folder 25
Optical Society tour of Vis Lab facilities, 1956

Includes outline of for demonstrations of special Vis Lab equipment and program summary notes.

Box 1 Folder 26
Summary and organizational charts, 1960
Box 1 Folder 27
Notes on organization and planning by R. Austin, 1960-1963
Box 1 Folder 28
Air Force briefing program, 1961
Box 1 Folder 29
Harris, James L. Visibility Center proposal, 1963 March 8
Box 1 Folder 30
Duntley, S. Q. Presentation at NEL on Visibility Laboratory capabilities, 1963 June 27
Box 1 Folder 31
Optics and image processing, 1964-1968
Box 1 Folder 32
History and mission of the Vis Lab, 1964-1983

Includes a summary of Navy cooperation.

Box 1 Folder 33
Tour and program summary notes by S. Q. Duntley, 1965

Includes brief outline of major government projects and contracts.

Box 1 Folder 34
Optics at UCSD - Summary, ca. 1967
Box 1 Folder 35
Duntley, S. Q. Underwater imagery - Memo to Nierenberg, 1968, 1976
Box 1 Folder 36
SIO annual report submissions, with photographs, 1970-1974
Box 1 Folder 37
Summary of research goals, capabilities and facilities - By J. L. Harris, in letter to Dept. of Transportation, 1971
Box 1 Folder 38
Organization summary and org chart, 1972-1974
Box 1 Folder 39
Statement of Policy, 1974
Box 1 Folder 40
Image Processing Facility, 1977
Box 1 Folder 41
History of Vis Lab computer acquisitions, 1978
Box 1 Folder 42
Organizational charts, project list, and facilities summary, 1980-1986
Box 1 Folder 43
Description of Vis Lab image processing system, 1982
Box 1 Folder 44
Research activities summary, 1982
Box 1 Folder 45
Capabilities for remotely sensing ocean optical properties - Summary, 1983 March
Box 1 Folder 46
Project summaries and program goals - Presentation slides, 1984-1985
Box 1 Folder 47
Submarine visibility/concealment efforts, 1984
Box 1 Folder 48
Visibility Laboratory: A Retrospective Look at its Contribution to Optical Oceanography and Other Tales - Presentation by R. W. Austin, 1988
Box 1 Folder 49
An Instrumental History of the Scripps Visibility Laboratory - Extended abstract by Kenneth J. Voss and Roswell Austin, ca. 1990

Memoranda and Policies

Box 1 Folder 50-52
Laboratory transition from MIT to University of California - Personnel, 1951-1952
Box 1 Folder 53
Laboratory transition from MIT to University of California - Org charts and budgets, 1952
Box 1 Folder 54
Director's memoranda no. 1-31 with subject index, 1955-1956
Box 1 Folder 55-56
Administrative memoranda, 1960-1984
Box 1 Folder 57
Report publication policies, 1962-1967
Box 1 Folder 58
Memo from Harris to Duntley and Austin re: Laboratory organization and operation, 1965 March 4
Box 1 Folder 59
Standard Practices Manual for safeguarding classified information, 1966
Box 1 Folder 60-70
Administrative Information Meetings (AIM) - Agendas and minutes, 1967, 1977-1986
Box 2 Folder 1
Contract and grant indices, 1971-1985
Box 2 Folder 2
Principal investigators - Memo and handbook, 1977
Box 2 Folder 3
Vis Lab move to SIO campus - Memoranda, 1977-1984

Includes summaries of Vis Lab's lack of interaction with other SIO research units, memo from Harris to Nierenberg, and reports by the SIO ad hoc Program Planning Committee.

Box 2 Folder 4
Space allocations - Sverdrup Hall, 1977-1984
Box 2 Folder 5
Space allocations - Naval Ocean Systems Center, 1977-1978
Box 2 Folder 6
Financial activity reports, 1978-1983
Box 2 Folder 7
Disestablishment of Vis Lab, 1987

Miscellaneous

Box 2 Folder 8
Press releases, 1968, 1972
Box 2 Folder 9-10
Student disorder and protest at UC San Diego re: government-funded research, 1969-1970

Campus controversy, focused on the Academic Senate, on student demands regarding classified research and Department of Defense-sponsored contracts. Includes: copies of resolutions and memoranda by William McGill; "The efficiency of a sit-in" by Henry G. Booker; and a 4-page memo by James L. Harris on government-funded research.

Box 2 Folder 11-12
Guest sign-in logs, 1963-1964, 1972-1980
Box 2 Folder 13
Aerospace Corporation - Military Spacecraft Committee meeting, 1977

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 2) CORRESPONDENCE: Arranged in four parallel, complementary, chronological subseries based on the original order of transferred files. The subseries each include correspondence from many Vis Lab researchers, often in carbon copy. Arranged in four subseries: A) Outgoing Chronological Files; B) S. Q. Duntley Files, C) James L. Harris, Sr. Files, and D) Roswell Austin Files.

A) Outgoing Chronological Files: Blue carbon copies of outgoing correspondence created by all staff and researchers at Vis Lab, including directors and managers. Arranged in original chronological order.

B) S. Q. Duntley Files: Includes miscellaneous early correspondence, and Duntley's director correspondence files. The director's files include some incoming correspondence addressed to Duntley, but the bulk consists of outgoing carbon copies of letters written by Duntley and other Vis Lab researchers (especially John E. Tyler and Raymond Smith). Arranged in original chronological order, though some years have multiple files with overlapping dates. Extensive additional correspondence by Duntley may be found in relevant contract and project files, particularly for the Navy's ONR and Bureau of Ships.

C) James L. Harris, Sr. Files: Harris was manager of research at Vis Lab, and also served as director from 1976-1979. Like Austin and Duntley, he maintained his own professional correspondence files that include incoming letters, and carbon copies of his outgoing letters.

D) Roswell Austin Files: Austin was the Laboratory manager at Vis Lab until he became acting director in 1979 (and eventually, director). Material consists of Austin's professional correspondence files. Copies of letters and memos by Austin may also appear in Duntley's files.

Outgoing Chronological Files

Box 2 Folder 14-67
Outgoing chronological files, 1954-1959
Box 3 Folder 1-53
Outgoing chronological files, 1960-1969
Box 4 Folder 1-13
Outgoing chronological files, 1970-1975

S. Q. Duntley Files

Box 4 Folder 14-17
Duntley - Miscellaneous early correspondence, 1946-1950
Box 4 Folder 18-35
Duntley - Director's general correspondence, 1952-1963
Box 5 Folder 1-26
Duntley - Director's general correspondence, 1964-1972
Box 6 Folder 1-8
Duntley - Director's general correspondence, 1973-1976

James L. Harris, Sr. Files

Box 6 Folder 9-31
Harris - Correspondence, 1961-1979
Box 6 Folder 32
Harris - Correspondence re: San Diego Sheriff's Department and digital image processing, 1983

Roswell Austin Files

Box 6 Folder 33-40
Austin - Correspondence files, 1961-1968
Box 7 Folder 1-24
Austin - Correspondence files, 1969-1989

1978 folder includes memo from Nierenberg inviting Austin to a presentation on carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by Charles Keeling, Berger and Fred Fisher. Includes Austin's notes from the lecture.

Box 7 Folder 25
Austin - Correspondence files, 1992-1998, 2003

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 3) CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS: Documents various colloquia, conferences, meetings, program reviews, seminars, symposia, trainings, and workshops. Includes abstracts, correspondence and planning materials, papers presented by Vis Lab researchers, and proceedings summaries. Arranged chronologically.

Box 8 Folder 1
U.S. Navy. Office of Naval Research (ONR) - Committee on Human Resources, Research and Development Board - Panel on Human Engineering and Psychophysiology, 1951 May
Box 8 Folder 2
U.S. Navy. Symposium on Radar Refraction, Washington, D.C., 1956

Includes copy of Duntley's paper, "Micro-structure in the atmosphere as observed by optical methods from aircraft."

Box 8 Folder 3
U.S. Navy. Mine Defense Symposium, 1957
Box 8 Folder 4
Inter-Service Radiation Measuring Program (IRMP), 1958

Thermal Radiation Laboratory, Geophysics Research Directorate, Air Force Missile Test Center.

Box 8 Folder 5
Symposium on Military Applications in the Ultraviolet, Washington, D.C., 1960
Box 8 Folder 6
Pacific Science Association. Tenth Pacific Science Congress, Honolulu, 1961
Box 8 Folder 7-9
Classified Symposium on Visual Search, San Diego, 1962

Sponsored by Armed Forces-NRC Vision Committee. Co-hosted by NEL and Vis Lab. Planning materials and correspondence.

Box 8 Folder 10
Image Evaluation Symposium, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, 1963 April
Box 8 Folder 11
National Aerospace Electronics Conference, Dayton, Ohio, 1963 May
Box 8 Folder 12
First Conference on Laser Technology, San Diego, 1963 November

Sponsored by the Department of Defense.

Box 8 Folder 13
NASA. Conference to study the feasibility of conducting oceanographic explorations from aircraft, manned orbital and lunar laboratories, Woods Hole, MA, 1964
Box 8 Folder 14
National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council - Mine Advisory Committee. Seminar on acoustic imaging and pulsed light, 1964
Box 8 Folder 15
National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council. Space Science Board Study in Exobiology, 1964
Box 8 Folder 16
Military Operations Research Symposium, Coronado, CA, 1964 October

Sponsored by ONR.

Box 8 Folder 17
U.S. Air Force. MOL astronaut training course on Light, Vision and Visibility, 1966
Box 8 Folder 18
Joint seminar on Visual Perception of Objects Under Circumstances Providing Impoverished Visual Cues (UFO Project), 1966
Box 8 Folder 19
Human Factors Colloquium. Notes on human factors aspect of real time night airborne reconnaissance displays, 1967 January 12
Box 8 Folder 20
Color of the Ocean Conference, Woods Hole, RI, 1969 July
Box 8 Folder 21
Joint meeting of the Space Sciences Laboratories of Berkeley and UCLA (Earth Resources Satellite Program), 1969 July
Box 8 Folder 22-24
NASA. Annual Earth Resources Program Reviews, 2nd-4th, 1969-1972

4th annual conference folder includes drafts of Austin's paper, "Surface truth measurements of optical properties of the waters in the Northern Gulf of California," with details of the Fresnel II cruise; and Duntley's "Detection of ocean chlorophyll from Earth orbit." Program Reviews are related to SPOC, the Ocean Color Program, and NASA's Earth Resources Survey (ERS) Program.

Box 8 Folder 25
20th Tuna Conference, Lake Arrowhead, 1969 October
Box 8 Folder 26
Marine Technology Society. Symposium on Work in the Sea, Los Angeles, 1969 December
Box 8 Folder 27
Atmospheric Optics Measurement Program, Project 698AJ, 1970
Box 8 Folder 28
Scientific Commission on Physical Oceanography of IAPSO. Symposium on Optical Aspects of Oceanography, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1972 June
Box 8 Folder 29
International Ocean Development Conference and Exhibition, Japan, 1972
Box 8 Folder 30
U.S. Navy. Underwater Applications and Optical Communications Working Group, 1972-1973

Includes material on ORICS review and ocean optical data sharing from the Naval Underseas Center.

Box 8 Folder 31
National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council. Committee on Remote Sensing Programs for Earth Resource Surveys (CORSPERS) panel, 1973-1974

Includes Duntley's paper prepared for an oceanography panel on marine resources and satellite data.

Box 8 Folder 32
DARPA Workshop on Underwater Optical Imaging Systems, San Diego, 1973
Box 8 Folder 33
EPA Symposium on monitoring quality of marine and estuarine waters, Seattle, WA, 1973

Includes photographs of event.

Box 8 Folder 34
NOAA National Oceanographic Instrumentation Center (NOIC) - Turbidity Workshop, Washington, D.C., 1974-1976

Includes objectives, schedules, analysis of proceedings, and correspondence.

Box 8 Folder 35
Ocean Optics Workshop, San Diego, 1977

Sponsored by ONR.

Box 8 Folder 36
SIO/NASA Seminar, La Jolla, 1977 October 7
Box 8 Folder 37
EPA Visibility Monitoring Workshop, Las Vegas, 1978
Box 8 Folder 38
Naval Oceans Systems Center. Blue/Green Optical Communications Program Review, San Diego, 1978 November
Box 8 Folder 39
Ocean Optics VII Classified Conference, Monterey, 1979
Box 8 Folder 40
U.S. Navy/DARPA Bioluminescence Workshop, San Diego, 1980
Box 8 Folder 41
AGARD Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Panel Symposium, Bavaria, 1983

Includes abstract of Austin's invited paper, "Passive remote sensing of ocean optical propagation parameters."

Box 8 Folder 42
Ocean Optics VII Classified Conference, Monterey, 1984

Includes abstracts of Austin's invited papers, "Spectral dependence of the diffuse attenuation coefficient of light in ocean waters" and "Marine snow bioluminescence and its effect on the optical properties of the sea."

Box 8 Folder 43
Marine Technology Society. Symposium on Ocean Color Observations, San Diego, 1985

Includes draft of Austin's prepared remarks and symposium materials.

Box 8 Folder 44
Workshop on University-Industry Cooperation in Ocean Technology, San Diego, 1986
Box 8 Folder 45
Optical Backscatter Meeting, NOSC San Diego, 1991 February 21

ARMED FORCES-NRC VISION COMMITTEE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 4) ARMED FORCES-NRC VISION COMMITTEE: Comprised of representatives from the Air Force, Army, Navy, and the National Research Council (NRC), the Armed Forces-NRC Vision Committee was charged with connecting members of the Armed Forces with civilian scientists working on problems related to vision. Working groups were established to focus on specific vision problems and to advise the military. S. Q. Duntley was first involved in the work of the committee as an associate member and was named a NRC representative in the 1960s. Materials include meeting minutes, reports, and records from Working Groups 6, 30, and 33.

Box 9 Folder 1-29
Minutes and proceedings, 1944-1954
Box 9 Folder 30
Membership lists, minutes and working group reports, 1963-1970, 1972

Includes materials from working groups 6 and 33.

Box 9 Folder 31
Working Group 30 - Ad hoc panel on Visibility problems of electro-optically guided missiles, 1968

PROJECTS, PROPOSALS AND CONTRACTS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 5) PROJECTS, PROPOSALS AND CONTRACTS: The Visibility Lab was almost entirely funded by contracts it procured with the federal government and research partners at other laboratories. This series contains Vis Lab's records of contract activity, including proposals, project descriptions, activity reports, and funding. Materials are arranged, where possible, by the primary contracting source, then chronologically, with major partners separated into distinct subseries. Some contracts evolved over many years with complex joint funding arrangements, for example between the Air Force and Navy, or NASA and NOAA. Materials are filed by the primary contact listed on the contract cover sheet and related correspondence, and reflect the Lab's original groupings of material.

Major contracts related to Vis Lab's work with NASA and other government partners on the remote sensing of ocean color using CZCS imagery from the Nimbus-7 satellite are found in Series 6) REMOTE SENSING OF OCEAN COLOR/CZCS, though complementary and related contracts may be included in Series 5.

Additional material that supported or was produced by contract assignments may also be found in Series 7) RESEARCH, WRITINGS AND PRESENTATIONS, as the Vis Lab did not consistently link research to a contract number, and maintained a separate library of written work product. Researchers should search the finding aid by keyword, contract number, and subject terms to discover relevant material about any given research topic.

Arranged chronologically within seven series: A) Air Force, B) Navy - Bureau of Ships, C) Navy - Office of Naval Research, D) Navy - Other, E) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), F) NASA - Project Gemini, and G) Other Contract Partners (A-Z).

Note on subseries F) Project Gemini: On May 15, 1963 NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper reported that he could see vehicles raising dust along the U.S.-Mexico border from his Mercury VII space capsule. Cooper's observation was disputed by some scientists. NASA contracted with the Visibility Laboratory to investigate and perform a Visual Acuity Experiment for Gemini flights 5 and 7 in 1965. Vis Lab scientists confirmed 84% probability that a trained pilot could correctly interpret dust patterns as vehicles and that Cooper's observation was consistent with border patrol vehicles operating that day in El Centro, California.

Air Force

Air Force Cambridge Research Center (AFCRC)

Box 10 Folder 1
AFCRC - Airplane programs correspondence - Patrick Air Force Base, 1953-1955, 1957

Correspondence related to activities at the Air Force Missile Test Center at Patrick AFB, including Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), ONR, and Bureau of Research.

Box 10 Folder 2-5
AFCRC - Florida atmospheric optics experiments, 1956-1957

Missile tracking and visibility experiments conducted at Eglin and Patrick air bases, and Cape San Blas. Research may have been co-sponsored by the Navy; topics include shimmer meter, missile meter, microwave refraction, and atmospheric boil.

Box 10 Folder 6
AFCRC - Florida atmospheric optics experiments - Shimmer meter analysis and patent, ca. 1957

Patent research supported by Nobs-72092.

Box 10 Folder 7-10
AFCRC - Airplane programs correspondence, 1956-1964

Includes correspondence from A. R. Boileau with the AFCRC and others about a variety of programs for airplane instrument design and development, such as the C-130 and B-29. Includes many references to joint contracts with other stakeholders.

Air Force Geophysics Laboratory (AFGL)

AFGL - Airborne measurements of optical atmospheric properties (AVIZ Project)

Box 10 Folder 11-19
AVIZ contract administration, 1969-1979

Includes correspondence, administrative memoranda, and contract activities reports. Contracts F19628-73-C-0013, F19628-76-C-0004. Includes references and reports on the OPAQUE project.

Box 10 Folder 20-26
AVIZ technical memoranda, 1970-1979
Box 10 Folder 27-30
Airborne measurements of atmospheric volume scattering coefficients in Northern Europe - Data, 1976
Box 11 Folder 1
AVIZ Project binder - Activity reports and memoranda, 1977-1979
Box 11 Folder 2
AFGL/LYT - Analysis of electro-optical imagery for the prediction of cloud-free paths of sight, 1984-1986

UCSD-3723-R3; Contract F19628-84-K-0047.

Box 11 Folder 3
AFGL - Study of weather impacts proposal, 1986

Air Force Office of Aerospace/Scientific Research (AFOSR)

Box 11 Folder 4
AFOSR - Contrast sensitivity of the central and peripheral visual fields of normal human observers, 1962

UCSD-1077.

Box 11 Folder 5
AFOSR - Night-time optical sensors, 1966

Correspondence and informal proposal regarding modifications to C-130 sensors for Major James G. Steger.

Box 11 Folder 6
AFOSR - Image analysis by object simulation, 1983

Air Research and Development Command (ARDC)

Box 11 Folder 7
ARDC - Manhigh III Project, 1957-1958
Box 11 Folder 8
ARDC - Project cards on atmospheric optics, 1957, 1960

Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) Program

Box 11 Folder 9-10
SAC - Correspondence and memoranda, 1951-1959
Box 11 Folder 11
SAC - Preliminary studies of the visibility of B-36 aircraft during twilight, 1953
Box 11 Folder 12
SAC - Aircraft visibility studies, 1954-1957
Box 11 Folder 13
SAC - Field test notebooks, 1955-1957
Box 11 Folder 14
SAC - Search calculations and visual detection range data, 1958
Box 11 Folder 15
SAC - Research by Jacqueline Gordon on visual search, undated

The visual detection lobe in direct search (report draft); A visual search problem of the Strategic Air Command (prepared comments).

Air Force Systems Command (AFSC)

Box 11 Folder 16
AFSC/Aeronautical Systems Division - High altitude photographic data collection and evaluation program, 1961-1964

Joint project with the Air Force Reconnaissance Laboratory. Contract AF33(657)-7739.

AFSC - Project Shedlight, 1966-1970

Box 11 Folder 17-18
Shedlight correspondence, 1966-1969

Shedlight (Contract F19628-67-C-0181) was a program of investigation to obtain and evaluate experimental data on contrast attenuation in different atmospheric environments. It was originally funded through the Naval Ship Systems Command, then by the mid-1960s, the Air Force Systems Command. It also received Air Force support through the Cambridge Research Laboratories. Later memos reference AVIZ Project.

Box 11 Folder 19
Shedlight progress reports and summaries, 1967-1970
Box 11 Folder 20-23
Shedlight technical memoranda, 1966-1970
Box 11 Folder 24-27
Shedlight administrative memoranda, 1967-1970
Box 11 Folder 28
AFSC/Electronic Systems Division - Contrast attenuation through the atmosphere, 1968

UCSD-2594.

Box 11 Folder 29
AFSC/Electronic Systems Division - To conduct a program to obtain and evaluate experimental data on and related to the optical properties of the atmosphere, in several spectral regions under both day and night illumination levels, 1969

UCSD-3191.

Box 11 Folder 30
AFSC/Electronic Systems Division - To conduct a quick response to obtain and evaluate experimental data related to the determination of detecting probabilities for low flying aircraft at night, 1970

UCSD-3468.

Box 11 Folder 31
AFSC/Electronic Systems Division - Atmospheric visibility studies, 1973-1978

UCSD-0554, -1144, -0020, -0282, -1608.

Box 11 Folder 32
AFSC/Electronic Systems Division - Modifications for radiometer internal stray light control and reconfiguration of ground based nephelometer, 1977

UCSD-0855, Contract no. F 19628-76-C-0004.

Box 11 Folder 33
AFSC/Aerospace Medical Division - Computer model of ground-to-air target detection performance, 1977-1978

UCSD-0851, Contract no. RFP F33615-77-R-0525.

AFSC/Electronic Systems Division - Modeling the European atmospheric optical environment (AMOD), 1977-1981

Box 12 Folder 1
AMOD project binder, 1978-1979

Joint project with the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory (AFGL). Contract F19628-78-R-0160. Refers to the OPAQUE and AVIZ projects.

Box 12 Folder 2
AMOD project binder, 1980-1981
Box 12 Folder 3
AMOD administrative memoranda, 1977-1979
Box 12 Folder 4-7
AMOD technical memoranda, 1978-1981

Memoranda reference NATO conferences and OPAQUE data.

Box 12 Folder 8
AFSC/Electronic Systems Division - Automatic assessment of localized surface visibilities (CDL-9) project binder, 1985-1987

UCSD-3723; Contract F19628-84-K-0047.

Box 12 Folder 9
AFSC/Electronic Systems Division - Automatic assessment of localized surface visibilities (CDL-9) technical notes, 1986-1987

Includes technical memoranda, research plan, and contract updates.

Box 12 Folder 10
Air Force Avionics Laboratory (AFAL/RWF) - New procedures for atmospheric transmittance determinations, 1980

UCSD-1746.

Navy - Bureau of Ships

Box 12 Folder 11-17
BuShips contract correspondence, 1950-1953 June

Correspondence regarding research on visibility of submarines and submerged objects (relating to concurrent ONR contract research) and later, aircraft.

Box 12 Folder 18-19
BuShips contract correspondence, 1955 September-1965

Detailed correspondence and memoranda, primarily concerning NObs-72092 and its precursors.

Box 12 Folder 20
Patent ideas, ca. 1956-1966

Summary folder of patentable ideas compiled by Austin, Boileau, Cordoza, Duntley, Harris, Petzold, Taylor and others. Research was supported by BuShips contracts NObs-72092, -72512, -43356, -84075, -92058 and NOnr-2216(14).

Box 12 Folder 21-22
Monthly contract reports for BuShips contract NObs-72092, 1954-1961

These reports include updates and information on many projects supported by NObs-72092, including Project HOOK, Bullpup, water clarity, VTC, fog, and general visibility research. Additional files on these projects are available later in this subseries.

BuShips - Underwater photometer (Contract NObs-43356), 1950-1956, 1958

Box 13 Folder 1-7
Research notebooks, 1953-1955
Box 13 Folder 8
Log of harbor data, 1955
Box 13 Folder 9
Tyler, John E. - Radiance distribution notes and photographs, 1955
Box 13 Folder 10
Report on operations and notes, 1955
Box 13 Folder 11
El Capitan dam experiments, 1955
Box 13 Folder 12
Duntley, S. Q. et al. An underwater photometer - Summary report, 1955

Presented at the October meeting of the Optical Society of America in Pittsburg, PA.

Box 13 Folder 13
Illumination component meter - Patent materials, 1958

BuShips - Project HOOK (Contract NObs-72092), 1952-1959

Box 13 Folder 14-15
Correspondence and memoranda, 1952-1958

HOOK was an early iteration of contract NOBs-72092.

Box 13 Folder 16
Long-range photographs, 1956

Experiment involved taking photographs of aircraft east of LAX, from summit of Mt. Helix in San Diego county.

Box 13 Folder 17
Harris, James L. Solution of filter problems in the time domain - Project HOOK technical memorandum no. 4, 1957 May 23
Box 13 Folder 18
Project HOOK AN/AVS-1 field lens design and test - Report by Justin J. Rennilson, 1958

BuShips - Water clarity meter (Contract NObs-72092), 1954-1959

Box 13 Folder 19
Water clarity measurement/Inshore Survey Program, 1954-1959

Documentation of a joint program (sponsored under contract NObs-72092) of the Navy Hydrographic Office and BuShips for water clarity instrumentation (for inshore mine surveys) to be adapted for submarine installation.

Box 13 Folder 20
Water clarity meter: Operating and maintenance instructions - Report by Roswell Austin, 1959

Report by Roswell Austin.

Box 13 Folder 21
BuShips - Air-to-surface visibility studies (Project Bullpup) (Contract NS 714-100), 1954-1959

Joint project with the Bureau of Aeronautics, who were interested in research on target visibility for the close air support missile XADM-N-7.

Box 13 Folder 22
BuShips - Underwater flare project, 1954-1960
Box 13 Folder 23-24
BuShips - Visual Target Classifier (VTC) (Contract NObs-72092), 1958-1964

Monthly reports, correspondence and project binder. This contract evolved into NObs-84075, Task 8.

BuShips - Behavior of light in an environment of fog (Contract NObs-72092, Amendment 38), 1960-1964

Box 13 Folder 25
Miscellaneous papers, 1960-1964
Box 13 Folder 26
Monthly reports, 1960-1963
Box 13 Folder 27
Theodolite missile azimuth control
Box 13 Folder 28
Technical information, with photographs, 1960-1964
Box 13 Folder 29
Final report and drafts, 1964

BuShips - Visibility Research (Contract NObs-84075), 1960-1966

Box 13 Folder 30
Contract reports
Box 13 Folder 31
Contract amendments

Includes over 20 proposed UCSD contract amendments on a variety of research projects.

Box 13 Folder 32
Contract correspondence
Box 13 Folder 33-34
Searchlight visual sea searches (Task 1), 1960-1963

Search and rescue (SAR) operation research. Includes folder labelled "ASR field experiments" with data taken off Point Loma.

Box 13 Folder 35
Image restoration (Task 2), 1960-1965
Box 13 Folder 36-38
Ship wake recognition/Reconnaissance Satellite Program (Task 3), 1960-1966

Also referred to as Project 503. Includes references to Includes Nobs-3620. Includes correspondence, memos, and reports.

Box 14 Folder 1
Ship wake recognition/Reconnaissance Satellite Program (Task 3) - Project binder, 1960-1962
Box 14 Folder 2
Ship wake recognition/Reconnaissance Satellite Program (Task 3) - Summary report
Box 14 Folder 3
Ship wake recognition/Reconnaissance Satellite Program (Task 3) - Research photographs
Box 14 Folder 4
Rooftop data gathering station (Task 3), 1960-1963
Box 14 Folder 5
Task 3 modification - Astronaut/Gemini experiments on visual acuity, 1965-1966

Includes progress reports from NASA contract NAS-9-5095. See related materials in subseries on NASA - Project Gemini.

Box 14 Folder 6
C-130 instrumentation (Task 4), 1960-1965
Box 14 Folder 7
Optical problems relating to bathyscaph operations (Task 5), 1961

Related to an NEL project to develop instrumentation for the bathyscaph Trieste.

Box 14 Folder 8
Null Balance Transmissometer (Task 6), 1963-1966
Box 14 Folder 9
Aircraft visibility problems/C-130 (Task 7), 1960-1965
Box 14 Folder 10
Visual Target Classifier (VTC) (Task 8), 1960-1965

See related documentation on VTC program in contract Nobs 72092. Includes paper by R. Howarth, "Notes on a uniform field projector."

Box 14 Folder 11
Visibility calculations (Task 9), 1962-1966
Box 14 Folder 12
Colored tape discriminator (Task 10), 1963
Box 14 Folder 13
Coast Guard projects (Sweep Width / Sighting Data) - Search and rescue (SAR) operation research, 1962-1968
Box 14 Folder 14
BuShips - Measurement of sea state from non-glitter portions of meteorological satellite photographs, 1957, 1961-1966

Contract Nobs-86012.

Box 14 Folder 15
BuShips - Proposal for survey of visual capabilities in space, 1963

Includes technical dissertation, "A study of visual tasks in space flight."

Box 14 Folder 16
BuShips - Research of visibility problems (Contract NObs-92058), 1964-1966

Also referred to as Task 538. Includes work with NASA. Related to CVC (Computerized Visibility Calculators) or NASA/Allen project.

Box 14 Folder 17
BuShips - Research of visibility problems (Contract NObs-92058), 1965-1968
Box 14 Folder 18
BuShips - Research of visibility problems (Contract Nobs-90337), 1964-1966

Includes report, "Concepts related to coherence time."

Box 14 Folder 19
BuShips - Research of visibility problems (Contract NObs-95251), 1965-1969

Includes contract amendments related to Project Shedlight, training programs for astronauts, and updates on Task 538.

Box 14 Folder 20
BuShips - Research of visibility problems (Contract NObs-95251) - Project FAMOS, 1965-1967
Box 14 Folder 21
BuShips - Research of visibility problems (Contract NObs-95251) - Project LoLev, 1966-1972
Box 14 Folder 22
BuShips - Provisional instructions: Operation of submarine visibility equipment (Contract NObs-92058), 1966 July

Navy - Office of Naval Research

Box 14 Folder 23-27
ONR contract correspondence, 1947-1950
Box 14 Folder 28
Visibility of surface vessels from deeply submerged submarines, 1950 April 21

Contract N5ori-07831.

Box 14 Folder 29-31
Visibility studies at Diamond Island, 1951-1960

Contract nos. N5ori-07864 and BuShips Nobs 50378. Concerns joint research and experimental investigations begun at MIT by Duntley on visibility of submerged objects (submarines), especially including the Diamond Island field station. See also the Diamond Island files in the RESEARCH, WRITINGS AND PRESENTATIONS series.

Box 14 Folder 32
Proposed research program in target recognition, 1958
Box 14 Folder 33
Research on artificial underwater lighting, 1961

UCSD-943. Some research conducted at Diamond Island field station. Includes correspondence with BuShips and ONR on collimated beams of light underwater (underwater lasers).

Exploratory calculations of the radiance of waves due to a submerged body (wakes)/Radiance distribution studies at Diamond Island, 1961-1969

Box 15 Folder 1
Master contracts

Continuation of visibility studies on Diamond Island. Contract Nonr-2216(14). See also the Diamond Island files in the RESEARCH, WRITINGS AND PRESENTATIONS series.

Box 15 Folder 2
Proposals

UCSD-1019, -1080, -1251, -1308, -1451 -1441, -144, -1486.

Box 15 Folder 3
Status reports and "Underwater Optics" final report

Final report structured as a letter to Frank Isakson.

Box 15 Folder 4-6
Correspondence, 1961-1968
Box 15 Folder 7
Proposal for optical laboratory tank, ca. 1967

Continuation of project NR 015-322. Includes photographs.

Box 15 Folder 8
Survey of locations for underwater laser study field station, 1967
Box 15 Folder 9
To measure in clear ocean water the distribution of irradiance produced by an underwater green laser on a surface perpendicular to the beam at off-axis angles up to 60 degrees and at lamp distances of 10 or more attenuation lengths, 1967

Continuation of project NR 015-322. UCSD-2051.

Box 15 Folder 10
Optical oceanography, 1969

UCSD-3285. Contract no. N00014-67-A-0109-0002.

Box 15 Folder 11
To measure the distribution of off-axis irradiance produced by a laser beam in the experimental tank located in Room 2215, Sverdrup Hall, in order to develop empirical and theoretical expressions describing the irradiance distribution and to determine the effects of receiver field of view, 1969

UCSD-3063. Related to U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory.

Box 15 Folder 12
Visibility determining equipment, 1970

UCSD-3918.

Box 15 Folder 13
Optical Ocean Measurements Program, 1971

UCSD-4441.

Box 15 Folder 14
(Unconventional) underwater imaging study, 1972-1973

Contract N00014-69-A-0200-6034. Includes proposal (UCSD-5419) first anniversary report.

Box 15 Folder 15
Optical oceanography in the Arctic, 1972-1973

UCSD-5699.

CAT Project/Time Varying Intensity (TVI) systems of underwater laser scanners, 1972-1975

Box 15 Folder 16
ONR-34 Task I Time Varying Intensity (TVI) project binder, 1972-1974

Includes technical memorandum on unconventional underwater imagery.

Box 15 Folder 17
Austin, R. W. TV system design consideration notes, 1972
Box 15 Folder 18-19
CAT I and II notebooks - Raymond C. Smith, 1974
Box 15 Folder 20
CAT Project - Underwater battery unit explosion at NUC Oceanographic Research Tower, with photographs, 1974-1975
Box 15 Folder 21
CAT Project - NUC tower operations notes, 1974
Box 15 Folder 22
Suspended solids in the ocean - Proposal letter, 1973
Box 15 Folder 23
Studies of oceanographic processes affecting suspended particulate material in the ocean, 1973-1974

UCSD-6151

Box 15 Folder 24
Development and fabrication of a spectral transmissometer, 1976-1977

UCSD-0683.

Box 15 Folder 25
Ocean optics research proposal and related correspondence, 1977-1979

UCSD-0983.

Box 15 Folder 26
Analysis of the optical transient response of water, 1978
Box 15 Folder 27
Development of an underwater towed optical sensor system, 1978

UCSD-0984, -0984 R1.

Box 15 Folder 28
Measurement of the absorption coefficient of natural waters, 1979-1980

UCSD-1335.

Box 15 Folder 29-30
ONR/DARPA - Marine bioluminescence studies, 1980-1981

UCSD-1911, contract N00014-80-C-0800. Involved design and installation of a subsurface field station over Scripps Canyon, connected to seashore laboratory by submarine cable.

Box 15 Folder 31
Environmental effects on optical propagation, 1980-1983

UCSD-1960.

Box 15 Folder 32
Remote sensing of bioluminescence (RSBI) project binder, 1982-1983

UCSD-2910, contract N00014-80-C-0066.

Box 15 Folder 33
Analysis of laboratory and field measurements of natural marine bioluminescence, 1983

UCSD-2985, contract N00014-80-C-0440.

Box 15 Folder 34
Atmospheric effects upon visible and infrared image propagation, 1983

UCSD-2941.

Box 15 Folder 35
Submarine remote sensor design study, 1983

UCSD-3084

Box 15 Folder 36
ONR Ad hoc Committee on Ocean Science from Space Shuttle, 1984-1986

Includes information on NASA's approval for the Navy to fly first oceanographer aboard the shuttle.

Box 15 Folder 37
Mesoscale oceanic phenomena, 1985-1986

UCSD-3790.

Box 15 Folder 38
Investigation of the effects of light field perturbations on apparent optical properties, 1985-1987

UCSD-4094.

Box 15 Folder 39
Spectral properties of ocean waters at the marginal ice zone, 1985-1987

UCSD-86-1135.

Box 15 Folder 40
Application of Differential Optoacoustic Spectroscopy (DOAS) in phytoplankton absorption, 1986

UCSD-86-1204.

Box 15 Folder 41
Arctic Accelerated Research Initiative, 1986
Box 15 Folder 42
Development of prototype portable aircraft ocean color remote sensing system, 1986-1987

UCSD-87-0013. Includes information Multispectral Aircraft Radiometer System (MARS).

Box 15 Folder 43
Optical and Physical Variability in NE Pacific Water Masses, 1986-1987

UCSD-86-1246.

Box 15 Folder 44
Back scattering and point spread function measurements in sea ice, 1987

UCSD-87-1310.

Navy - Other Departments

Naval Air Development Center (NADC)

Box 16 Folder 1
NADC/Anti-Submarine Warfare Lab - Nicard Project - Feasibility investigation for optical ranging and detection of submerged objects, 1962-1966

Originally AW-423. Technical document 224-840C4. Transferred to project NOr-480D-98. Includes memorandum on submarine visibility system data collection requirements.

Box 16 Folder 2
NADC - Underwater light propagation, 1965-1968

Contract N62269-3097, UCSD-1476.

Box 16 Folder 3
NADC - To measure light propagation properties in the ocean in conjunction with laser system evaluation (ORADS), 1970

UCSD-3406. Contract no. N62269-70-Q-0248.

Box 16 Folder 4
NADC - Transmissometer system, 1972

UCSD-4994. Contract no. N62269-72-R-0446.

Box 16 Folder 5
NADC - Light propagation properties in the ocean, 1973

UCSD-6383.

Box 16 Folder 6
NADC - Optical oceanographic measurement support, 1976-1979

Contract no. N62269-76-M-2584. Measurements undertaken in support of the Optical Ranging, IFF, Communication Program (ORIC).

Box 16 Folder 7
NADC - Services to develop and fabricate an oceanographic irradiometer system, 1976-1977

UCSD-0677.

Box 16 Folder 8
NADC - Compilation and analysis of coastal optical properties data/Optical oceanographic measurement support, 1978

UCSD-1047, -1249.

Box 16 Folder 9
NADC - Research, analysis and engineering support in optical oceanography, 1979-1980

UCSD-1863, Contract no. N62269-79-C-0318.

Box 16 Folder 10
NADC - Operation and maintenance manual for five channel radiometer, 1982

Technical memorandum E-001-82t. Contract N662269-79-C-0318.

Naval Electronics Laboratory (NEL)

Box 16 Folder 11
NEL - Visual detection and concealment section program summary, ca. 1955
Box 16 Folder 12
NEL - Chemiluminescence Project, 1954-1955
Box 16 Folder 13
NEL - Deep water scatter meter, 1962-1963
Box 16 Folder 14
NEL - Maritime visibility, 1973

Includes status report on cloud free lines of sight (CFLOS).

Box 16 Folder 15
NEL - Analysis of ocean optical property measurements, 1975
Box 16 Folder 16
NEL - Irradiance meter, 1975-1978
Box 16 Folder 17
Naval Medical Research Institute - Correspondence with Commander Norman Lee Barr, 1951-1952
Box 16 Folder 18
Naval Ocean Research Development Activity - Ocean optical transmission maps of the Gulf of Alaska and Northeastern Pacific, 1987-1989

Naval Ocean Systems Center (NOSC)

Box 16 Folder 19
NOSC - Non-acoustic anti-submarine warfare studies, 1977

Includes two project outlines: "Ocean optical Environment" and "Ocean surface observations."

Box 16 Folder 20
NOSC - Multispectral ocean data analysis, 1978

UCSD-1168.

Box 16 Folder 21
NOSC - Optical surface truth measurements, 1978

UCSD-1124.

Box 16 Folder 22
NOSC - Visibility of submerged objects, 1978

Contract N660001-78-C-0203. Also referred to as Studies of Observation of Submerged Objects (SOSO).

Box 16 Folder 23
NOSC - Calibration services on RSI underwater radiometers in support of the Ocean Color Program, 1978-1980

Contract N66001-80-M-7776.

Box 16 Folder 24
NOSC - E/O Cameras, 1981-1986

Includes technical memorandum by J. D. Bailey, "Design of a test facility for use in evaluation of the lopatch visible spectrum scanning system." Contract 66001-81-M-1808.

Box 16 Folder 25
NOSC - Environmental data and modeling support for SRS-85 field test, 1985
Box 16 Folder 26
NOSC - Radiometric Calibration Facility, 1985

UCSD-86-1021.

Box 16 Folder 27
NOSC - Instrumentation for an Ice Optics Laboratory, with technical memoranda, 1985
Box 16 Folder 28
NOSC - Sea Ice Optical Sensor analysis and system design, 1986-1987

UCSD-86-1489, contract N66001-87-C-0102.

Box 16 Folder 29
NOSC - Satellite/Submarine Laser Communications (SLC) programs, 1986-1989

Includes: correspondence; SLC Provinces Working Group/J. W. Nolten technical memorandum, "c versus k survey" (JN-011-88); NOSC memorandum on SLC water database programs by Alan King. Research focus is the variability in the ratio of volume attenuation coefficient to diffuse attenuation coefficient versus optical depth.

NOSC - Submerged contrast: A program for computing underwater irradiance, radiance and contrast (Submerged Remote Sensing - SRS), 1986-1990

Box 16 Folder 30
Project binder

Includes "EN-" technical memoranda, program details.

Box 16 Folder 31
AUTEC data, 1986
Box 16 Folder 32
Petzold, T. J. Memoranda on irradiance reflectance of seawater, 1986-1987

Technical memoranda: EN-017-86t; TJP/RWA 86-04t-07t; 87-02t.

Box 16 Folder 33
SLC cruise data, 1988

Petzold SLC analysis binder, including technical memoranda, from USNS Lynch 1987 Station no. 1. References MER.

Box 16 Folder 34
Austin, R. W. Experimental evaluation of a method to determine the spectral diffuse attenuation properties of seawater and the attenuation of diffuse light for a vertical path from outside the atmosphere to a depth below the surface, 1990

Submitted as an SRS report to SAIC.

Box 16 Folder 35-38
NOSC - Natural Illumination Program (NIP)/Submerged Sensor Program - Contracts, memoranda and correspondence, 1988-1991

Contract N66001-86-D-002 (also referred to as "Project Skylight"). Statement of work references the SLC data collection program.

Naval Oceanographic Office (NOO)

Box 16 Folder 39
NOO - Water clarity survey system, 1967-1970

UCSD-2810, -2917. Contract no. N62306-69-C-0135.

Box 16 Folder 40
NOO - Correspondence, 1968-1971

NOO - Transmissometer/Illuminometer projects

Box 16 Folder 41
Transmissometer system project binder, 1971

Contract N62306-72-C-0011.

Box 16 Folder 42
Transmissometer/illuminometer instrument system (NAVOCEANO), 1976-1977

UCSD-0678, -1129.

Box 16 Folder 43
Development of combined transmissometer/illuminometer system, 1977-1979

UCSD-0844, -1409; Contract no. RFP N68463-77-R-0034.

Box 16 Folder 44
Task I: Modification of the transmissometer/illuminometer instrument system; Task II: Field training of personnel in the operation and maintenance of the transmissometer/illuminometer instrument system, 1978

UCSD-1129; Contract N68463-77-C-0034.

Box 16 Folder 45
Transmissometer project binder, 1985-1986

UCSD-3760; Contract N00024-82-C-6400.

Box 16 Folder 46
NOO - Backscatter meter, 1977

Includes technical memorandum EN-001-77.

Box 16 Folder 47
NOO - Water clarity system, 1977
Box 16 Folder 48
NOO - Bioluminescence photometer, 1978-1979

UCSD-1337. Includes technical memorandum ML-79-001t.

Naval Regional Plant Equipment Office (NRPEO)

Box 17 Folder 1
NRPEO - Sonar signal operations for improved ocean bottom feature extraction, 1972-1973

UCSD-5517. Includes technical memorandum UV-72-005t.

Box 17 Folder 2
NRPEO - Simulation studies of underwater imaging systems, 1972-1974

UCSD-5662. Contract N66857-73-C-0120.

Box 17 Folder 3
NRPEO - Water properties at tongue of the sea, 1973

UCSD-6028.

Box 17 Folder 4
NRPEO - Studies of underwater imaging systems, 1973-1975

UCSD-6308, -0088.

Box 17 Folder 5
NRPEO - Experimental TVI system report, 1974

Contract N66314-74-C-8016.

Box 17 Folder 6
NRPEO - Synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) design parameters, 1975

Contract N66314-74-C-8008.

Box 17 Folder 7
NRPEO - Study of underwater imaging systems, 1975-1977

UCSD-0673 revised and -0355

Box 17 Folder 8
NRPEO - Supplement to synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) studies, 1976-1977

UCSD-0644 and -0465. Contract N66314-74-C-8008.

Box 17 Folder 9
NRPEO - Underwater imaging-system simulation and test and evaluation support, 1976-1977

UCSD-0592.

Box 17 Folder 10
NRPEO - Nighttime visibility studies at sea, 1978
Box 17 Folder 11
NRPEO - Data analysis and instrument characterization services, 1986-1987

UCSD-87-1178.

Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)

Box 17 Folder 12
NRL - Study of remote sensing of the ocean in the visible spectrum, 1972

UCSD-4951. Contract no. N00014-69-C-0200.

Box 17 Folder 13
NRL - Unconventional underwater imagery, 1972

UCSD-4720.

Box 17 Folder 14
NRL - Ocean optical properties studies, 1974-1975

UCSD-0024.

Box 17 Folder 15
NRL/CNOC - N-Ross II potential enhancements, 1985

Naval Ship Systems Command (NAVSHIPS)/Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA)

NAVSHIPS - Submerged reflectance of submarines (SUBVIS) (Contract N00024-68-C-1100), 1965-1976

Box 17 Folder 16
SUBVIS correspondence, 1965-1968
Box 17 Folder 17
Submarine paint, 1966-1967
Box 17 Folder 18
Status updates and quarterly reports, 1966-1968
Box 17 Folder 19
SUBVIS contract maintenance, 1970-1973
Box 17 Folder 20
Submerged reflectance - Summary report by T. J. Petzold and R. W. Austin, 1976 August

Technical memorandum ML-76-008t.

Box 17 Folder 21-23
NAVSHIPS - Optical surveillance and optical countermeasures studies reports, 1967-1970
Box 17 Folder 24
NAVSEA - System for real time determinations of cloud-free fields of view, 1983-1984

UCSD-3033, -3566.

Naval Weapons Center (NWC)

Box 17 Folder 25
NWC - Tracer sighting ranges, 1953
Box 17 Folder 26
NWC - Computer simulation of television displays for aircraft identification, 1972

UCSD-5107.

Box 17 Folder 27
NWC - Weather and visibility analysis, 1973-1974

UCSD-6450.

Box 17 Folder 28
NWC - Availability and credibility of maritime visibility observations, 1974

Technical memorandum ML-74-004t. Contract N000123-74-C-0251.

Navy Engineering Logistics Office - Ocean Natural Resources Assessment (ONRA) Program (Contract N41756), 1982-1987

Box 17 Folder 29
ONRA proposals, 1982-1983

UCSD-2659, -2977. Contract N41756-82-C-2973.

Box 17 Folder 30
ONRA Project binder, 1983-1984

UCSD-3233; contracts N41756-83-C-2909 and N41756-83-C-2645.

Box 17 Folder 31
ONRA research plan (UCSD-86-1219), 1986
Box 17 Folder 32
ONRA correspondence and memoranda
Box 17 Folder 33
Monthly report samples
Box 17 Folder 34
Data, notes and documentation
Box 17 Folder 35
Environmental Data Collection System (EDCS) summaries, 1986
Box 17 Folder 36
ONRA 3 project binder, 1985
Box 18 Folder 1
ONRA 4 project binder (contract N41756-86-C-9900), 1985-1986
Box 18 Folder 2-3
ONRA 4 project binder, 1986-1987

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Box 18 Folder 4
Contrast sensitivity of the central and peripheral visual fields of normal human observers, 1964

UCSD-1346.

NASA/Ames Research Center - Computerized visibility calculations (CVC/Allen Project), 1966-1972

Box 18 Folder 5
CVC proposals

UCSD-1817, -2417, -0229, -2417, -2844, -3345, -3520, -4074, -4481, -4735, -4759, -5742, -6945 under grants NGR-05-009-059 and NGR-05-009-192. For aircraft visibility research related to airborne collisions, and landing.

Box 18 Folder 6-7
CVC correspondence
Box 18 Folder 8
CVC reports
Box 18 Folder 9
Notes and photographs
Box 18 Folder 10
NASA/Electronic Research Center - Spectrometer construction and its field measurements of ocean waters, 1968

UCSD-2388.

Box 18 Folder 11
NASA/Electronic Research Center - Parametric modelling studies, 1968
Box 18 Folder 12
NASA/Electronic Research Center - Study of atmospheric limitations imposed on the remote sensing from space of sea state and similar oceanographic parameters by visible and infrared radiation, 1968-1970

UCSD-2862. Contract no. NAS 12-2126.

Box 18 Folder 13
The green flash: A study of its mechanism, 1969

UCSD-3116.

Box 18 Folder 14
Proposal to develop an effective water quality monitoring system, 1971

UCSD-4304.

Box 18 Folder 15
Studies of visual aspects of aircraft operations, 1972

UCSD-4735. Contract no. NGR 05-009-192.

Box 18 Folder 16
Proposal for crop and plankton growth assessment, 1976
Box 18 Folder 17
Techniques for the observation and classification of ocean fronts, internal waves, sea surface swells, and whitecaps, 1976-1981

UCSD-0628.

Box 18 Folder 18
NASA/Lewis Research Center - Measurement of optical properties for Great Lakes organic and inorganic species, 1978

UCSD-1174, -1211. Contract no. RFP 3-862583. Includes proposals for Lake Erie spectral radiance and irradiance study.

Box 18 Folder 19
Ship and satellite bio-optical research in the California Bight, 1979-1981

UCSD-1415, -1415 R1, -1709.

Box 18 Folder 20
NASA/Ocean Processes Branch - Photoecology, optical properties, and remote sensing of warm core rings, 1981-1982

UCSD-2359, -2081, contract NAG6-14.

Box 18 Folder 21
Determination of spatial and temporal variations in the optical properties of the Earth's atmosphere and their effects on remotely-sensed characteristics of surface-reflected light, 1982-1983

UCSD-2448.

Box 18 Folder 22
NASA/Resource Observation Division - Effects of diffuse skylight on measurements of directional reflectance properties of natural surfaces, 1983-1984

UCSD-3073.

Box 18 Folder 23
Investigation of the Northern Adriatic Sea: CZCS imagery and modeling, 1985-1986

UCSD-4148, grant NAG 5-587.

Box 18 Folder 24
Remote sensing of ocean color in the Arctic, 1987-1988

UCSD-87-1189.

NASA - Project Gemini

Box 18 Folder 25
Correspondence, 1962-1968
Box 18 Folder 26-27
Experiment debriefing transcripts, 1963-1965

Mostly document Gemini 5; includes transcripts of conference hosted at Vis Lab as well.

Box 18 Folder 28
Photographs, ca. 1964-1967
Oversize FB-560 Folder 1
Astronaut portraits - Vision tester eye survey apparatus, undated

Small headshots of astronauts Cooper, COnrad, Armstrong, and See; photographs mounted on oversize board.

Box 18 Folder 29
Publicity, 1963-1965
Box 18 Folder 30
Contracts - Bureau of Ships (contract NObs-84075), 1963-1965

BuShips contract NObs-92058 was the sequel to NObs-84075. Includes correspondence.

Box 18 Folder 31
Contracts - NAVDOCKS (contract No. 67287) - Proposal for experiment in Laredo, Texas, 1965
Box 18 Folder 32
Contracts - NASA (contract 9-5095) and UCSD-1555, 1965
Box 18 Folder 33
Meetings - Visibility Laboratory meeting minutes, with photographs, 1963-1965
Box 18 Folder 34-35
Meetings - NASA Inflight Experimenters meeting minutes, 1963-1968

Includes meetings 1, 3-6, 8, 10, and 11.

Box 18 Folder 36
In-Flight Visual Acuity Experiment proposal and outline, 1963-1964
Box 18 Folder 37
Computer predictions of visibility by astronauts, ca. 1964
Box 18 Folder 38
Description of Gemini experiments: Flights GT-3 through GT-7, 1964 April 13

Booklet distributed by NASA's Office of Manned Space Flight.

Box 18 Folder 39
Quality Assurance Program memoranda, 1964 December 14
Box 19 Folder 1
Failure Analysis, Flight Safety Report, and Qualification Test Program, 1964-1965
Box 19 Folder 2
Experiment milestone schedules, 1964-1965
Box 19 Folder 3
Descriptive documentation for Experiment S-8/D-13, 1964-1965
Box 19 Folder 4
General Electric - Experiment proposal for GT-7, 1964-1965
Box 19 Folder 5
Experiment S-8/D-13 requirements, 1965
Box 19 Folder 6
Vision figures - Graphs and data sheets, 1965
Box 19 Folder 7
Procedures and milestones for Gemini - Pamphlet, 1965 January 21
Box 19 Folder 8
Test procedures and revisions, 1965 March-April
Box 19 Folder 9
Description of experiment and plans for S-8/D-13 for Gemini V and Gemini VII, 1965 May-June
Box 19 Folder 10
Experiment plan for Gemini In-Flight Human Otolith Function Experiment M-9, 1965 June 8

Conducted by John Billingham, Earl Miller, and Jerry Jones.

Box 19 Folder 11
Mission reports, 1965 August
Box 19 Folder 12-14
GT-5 flight plan, 1965 April-August
Box 19 Folder 15
Palm Beach County Commissioners experiment proposal for GT-7, 1965 September 13
Box 19 Folder 16
Mission Operation Plan drafts, 1964 October-1965 October
Box 19 Folder 17
Gemini VII preflight trajectory data, 1965 November 9
Box 19 Folder 18
Gemini VII flight plan, 1965 November 16
Box 19 Folder 19
Film and experimental data recovery plan, Gemini VI-VII, 1965 November 19
Box 19 Folder 20
Gemini V Experiment objectives and equipment - Post flight Interim Report, 1966 January 6
Box 19 Folder 21
Apollo helmet lighting study - Memo to Duntley, 1967 May 24
Box 19 Folder 22
United States Activities in Spacecraft Oceanography - Booklet by NASA and the Naval Oceanographic Office, 1967 October 1

Describes vision experiments conducted during Gemini flights.

Box 19 Folder 23
Gemini V and Gemini VII final reports, 1965-1968
Box 19 Folder 24-35
Inflight vision tester, 1964-1967

Correspondence, description and design specifications, technical memoranda, photographs, manual and reports.

Box 19 Folder 36-45
Inflight photometer, 1964-1966

Description and design specifications, procedures, reports, photographs and manual.

Ground Observation Sites

Box 19 Folder 46
Sun azimuth and zenith polar plots, ca. 1964
Box 19 Folder 47
Preliminary sighting data, 1964
Box 20 Folder 1-7
Laredo, Texas site data and images, 1964-1966
Box 20 Folder 8
Woodleigh, Australia site data, ca. 1964-1966
Box 20 Folder 9
Solar positions, 1965
Box 20 Folder 10
Ground reflectance data, 1965
Box 20 Folder 11
Yuma, Arizona site data, 1965
Box 20 Folder 12
Climatological Survey for Yuma, AZ and El Centro, CA, 1965 October 19
Box 20 Folder 13
Revised data for GT-7, 1965-1966
Box 20 Folder 14
Data collection sequence and data reduction method, ca. 1965-1967
Box 20 Folder 15
Gemini VII results, 1965-1967

Audiovisual Recordings

Box 20 Folder 16
Gemini visual acuity experiments, GT-5 and 7 - Master VHS copy compilations of original films

Master VHS: Color, sound, time 1:31:33. The first 1:00:27 is clips from film reels A-F; 1:00:28-1:31:33 is a copy of Reel G, the documentary. The second VHS has the same content as the master, but with the documentary first on the tape, followed by the silent clips. Includes images of Gemini astronauts Frank Borman, Charles Conrad, Gordon Cooper and James Lovell.

Oversize FS-144
Film B - First formal Gemini 7 briefing, 1965 July

16mm film, color, silent, approximate time 00:05:30. NASA-MSC file number 4235.

Oversize FS-145
Film D - GT-7 pass over Laredo, Texas, 1965 December

16mm film, color, silent, approximate time 00:12:00. NASA-MSC file number 4800.

Oversize FS-146
Film E - Loredo site during the GT-5 mission, 1965 August

16mm film, color, silent, approximate time 00:15:00.

Oversize FS-147
Film F - Training film for visual acuity target, 1965 December

16mm film, color, silent, approximate time 00:22:00.

Oversize FS-148
Film G - Gemini Visual Acuity Experiment documentary, 1965

16mm film, color, sound, approximate time 00:30:00. Documentary on the experiment, featuring Roswell Austin, Seibert Duntley, and Robert Stapleford. NASA-MSC file number 65-282.

Box 20 Folder 17-19
GT-7 scientific debriefing - Sound recording on 5 reel-to-reels, 1965 January 4
Box 20 Folder 20-21
GT-5 scientific debriefing - Sound recording on 3 reel-to-reels, 1965 September 8

Other Contract Partners (A-Z)

Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)/Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

ARPA - Image restoration and processing (RADI), 1960-1961, 1966-1973

Box 21 Folder 1
Early correspondence, 1960-1961

Describes anticipated breakthrough in off-setting atmospheric boil (refraction) on ground- or ship-based optical devices for tracking aerial objects.

Box 21 Folder 2
Activity reports
Box 21 Folder 3
Memo by D. P. MacAdam, 1966
Box 21 Folder 4
Correspondence and memoranda, 1966-1973

Includes UCSD-2101, -2948, -3599. Contracts no. F08606-68-C-0017 and F08606-71-C-0020 (between Patrick Air Force Base and University of California).

Box 21 Folder 5
Technical memoranda - IM-67-001t-009t, 1967 November-December

Authors include Helstrom, MacAdam and Preisendorfer.

Box 21 Folder 6-7
Technical memoranda - IM-68-001t-034t, IM-69-001t, 1968-1969
Box 21 Folder 8
McGlamery, B. L. "A brief history of Project RADI, 1960-1968", 1968 June
Box 21 Folder 9
Resolution limitations on underwater imagery - Draft and notes, ca. 1971
Box 21 Folder 10
Joint Carde ARPA meeting on Mid-course Detection of Ballistic Missiles, 1961 August 24-25
Box 21 Folder 11
ARPA - Night vision / Scotoscopes proposal, 1964
Box 21 Folder 12
ARPA - Underwater research proposals, 1970-1971

UCSD-3999 and UCSD-4192. Related research proposals: Explore connections between the modulation transfer function of a path of light through water, and Comprehensive research program on improving underwater optical 2-way communications.

Box 21 Folder 13
ARPA - Computer processing of degraded imagery, 1973

UCSD-6311. Contract no. F30602-73-C-0280.

Box 21 Folder 14
DARPA - Development of a method for the simultaneous measurement of volume attenuation coefficient and forward scattering, 1973-1974

UCSD-5758

Box 21 Folder 15
DARPA - Studies of techniques for the measurement of optical properties of waters in the deep sea basins, 1974-1975

UCSD-6735.

Box 21 Folder 16
DARPA - Advanced imaging systems studies, 1978

UCSD-1101.

Box 21 Folder 17
DARPA - Assessment and modeling of ocean optical properties, 1978-1981
Box 21 Folder 18-22
American Optical Corporation - Visibility research, 1967-1973
Box 21 Folder 23
Army Chemical Center, Chemical Corps Technical Command - Duntley Scattering Chamber, 1946-1950
Box 21 Folder 24
Army Snow Ice and Permafrost Research Establishment (SiPRE) - Attenuation meter, 1958-1961
Box 21 Folder 25
Army - Visual identification problems with Howard Coleman, 1974-1975
Box 21 Folder 26
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) - Alterations and additions to existing underwater spectrometer to prepare it for research in the ocean, 1965

UCSD-1521.

Biospherical Instruments, Inc.

Box 21 Folder 27
Antarctic consulting, 1988-1989
Box 21 Folder 28
Remote optical property environmental sensor (ROPES) proposal, 1990

Describes Austin and Petzold's role as "consultants in the design and evaluation of the beam transmittance and scattering detectors" (page 18).

Box 21 Folder 29
Petzold, T. J. Some thoughts on the calibration of the ROPES photometric system, 1991

Technical memorandum TJP/BIO 91-01t.

Box 21 Folder 30
Petzold, T. J. Collection efficiency over field of view for a collimated optical system, 1991
Box 21 Folder 31
Advanced bio-optical profiling system (ABOPS) proposal, 1991
Box 21 Folder 32
Austin, R. W. Ray traces of a UV optical relay system, 1990
Box 21 Folder 33
Petzold, T. J. Submerged Remote Sensing (SRS) model with Calypso and Scripps Canyon data, 1990 May
Box 21 Folder 34-35
Birch Aquarium - Kelp tank windows project, 1992-1995
Box 21 Folder 36
California Sea Grant - Use of the Nimbus-7 CZCS to evaluate circulation and productivity processes along the Central California Coast, 1982-1984

Project R/CZ-63A.

California Space Group/Institute (CSI)

Box 21 Folder 37
CSI - Monitoring phytoplankton in the Southern California Bight by remote testing, 1979-1980

UCSD-1689.

Box 21 Folder 38
CSI - Remote sensing by means of the polarization of light, 1981-1982

UCSD-2234.

Box 21 Folder 39
CSI - Spatial and temporal dynamics of phytoplankton blooms, 1981-1982

UCSD-2228.

Box 21 Folder 40
CSI - Remote sensing of subsurface ocean water temperature profiles, 1981-1982

UCSD-2235.

Box 21 Folder 41
CSI - Analysis of ocean processes in California coastal waters, 1981-1982

UCSD-2237.

Box 21 Folder 42
CSI - Aircraft and shipboard instrumentation for continuous remote sensing of subsurface ocean temperature profiles, 1982-1983

UCSD-2654.

Box 21 Folder 43
CSI - Remote sensing of equatorial mesoscale variability, 1983-1984

UCSD-3072

Box 21 Folder 44
CSI - Modelling optical properties in the ocean using HPLC measured pigment distributions, 1986-1987

UCSD-86-1330.

Box 21 Folder 45
CSI - Feasibility assessment and demonstration of ocean color remote sensing in case-II waters of the San Francisco Bay estuarine ecosystem, 1987-1988

UCSD-87-1345.

CIA - Image Processing (IMP), 1965-1972

Box 22 Folder 1
Contracts and proposals

UCSD-1547, -2083, -3091, -3100, -3162, -3682, -5051. Material relating to contract no. XG-2794-66-R.

Box 22 Folder 2
Correspondence
Box 22 Folder 3
Activity reports
Box 22 Folder 4
James L. Harris project notebook, 1968
Box 22 Folder 5
James L. Harris draft reports and presentations on IMP, 1969
Box 22 Folder 6
Digital Image Processing - Summary report by Benjamin McGlamery, 1972
Box 22 Folder 7
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) - Visual observation studies, 1978

UCSD-1182.

Box 22 Folder 8
Department of the Interior. National Park Service. Crater Lake National Park - Submarine radiometers, 1957-1964

Includes data graphs and information on a submarine photometer.

Box 22 Folder 9
Department of Transportation (DOT) - Focal project on water clarity in deep ocean environments, 1937
Box 22 Folder 10
Department of Transportation (DOT) - Proposals on coefficient irradiance underwater, 1971-1973

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Box 22 Folder 11
EPA - The effects of suspended sediments on the penetration of solar radiation into natural waters, 1978-1981

UCSD-1247.

Box 22 Folder 12
EPA - Penetration of UV-B into natural waters and its effects on primary productivity, 1979-1980

UCSD-1614, -1248.

Box 22 Folder 13
EPA - Penetration of UV-B into natural waters and its effects on primary productivity and the population of Northern Anchovy, 1981

UCSD-2078.

Box 22 Folder 14
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) - Study to acquire and analyze data of the visual limitations in assessing air collision threats, 1971-1973

UCSD-4442. Includes draft of final report.

Box 22 Folder 15
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) - Study of evasive maneuvers for midair collision avoidance, 1973-1974

UCSD-6725. Includes draft of final report entitled, "Exploration of the relationship between visual search performance and adaptation level."

Box 22 Folder 16
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Analysis of satellite data to supplement an oceanographic survey of the northern Somali coast, 1984

UCSD-3782.

Box 22 Folder 17
General Dynamic, Convair Division - Probable discrimination and recognition capabilities of enemy optical systems, 1959 October 17
Box 22 Folder 18
GTE Sylvania Inc. - Marine water parameter measurement program, 1981

UCSD-2200.

Box 22 Folder 19
International Harvester Company, Solar Division - Optical design of radiation sensors as applied to turbine engines (pyrometers), 1969-1976

Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)

Box 22 Folder 20
APL - Bioluminescence sensor, 1983-1984

UCSD-3113.

APL - Development of an underwater light sensor (radiometer)

Box 22 Folder 21
Radiometer manual (EN-008-85t/R2), 1984-1985
Box 22 Folder 22
APLB Radiometer Video System manual
Box 22 Folder 23
Correspondence and memoranda, 1984-1986
Box 22 Folder 24
Drawings, ca. 1986
Box 22 Folder 25
Contracts and proposals, 1984-1985

APL contract 601897-0. UCSD-3898 and -3413.

Box 22 Folder 26-28
APL - Standard Rampart, Vis Lab radiometric and optical support, 1985

UCSD-86-1176.

Box 22 Folder 29
APL - Spectral characteristics of water reflectance proposal, 1985
Box 22 Folder 30
APL - Studies of factors affecting visibility in a marine environment, 1985-1987

UCSD-4020, UCSD-86-1479.

Box 22 Folder 31
APL - Transmissometer, 1986
Box 22 Folder 32
APL - Miscellaneous project correspondence and memoranda, 1986-1987
Box 22 Folder 33
APL - Standard Rampart, Study of inherent/apparent optical properties of ocean water, 1987

UCSD-87-1492.

Box 22 Folder 34
APL - Polarization of light reflected from paint samples, 1987
Box 22 Folder 35
NATO Undersea Research Centre (NURC) - Submerged Contrast Model (SRS), 2008

Validity assessment using Vis Lab data from R/V Captain Hook, USNS De Steiguer, USNS Lynch and AUTEC cruises.

National Defense Research Committee (NDRC)/Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) Section 16.3 - Camouflage, 1942-1945

Box 23 Folder 1
Duntley, S. Q. Diary and scrapbook of activities on behalf of NDRC Section 16.3, 1942-1943

Typescript diary, and a small, 8-page scrapbook of images and illustrations of Laurelton Hall (the Tiffany estate), Long Island, NY.

Laurelton Hall scrapbook, ca. 1943
Box 23 Folder 2
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation - Visibility research, 1942-1943
Box 23 Folder 3
Goniophotometer samples, 1943
Box 23 Folder 4
Duntley, S. Q. Account of the Spectrogeograph Expedition, ca. 1943

References the Tiffany Laboratory and visibility studies off Florida and in Oyster Bay.

Box 23 Folder 5-7
Duntley, S. Q. Log of NDRC Section 16.3 activities, 1944-1945
Box 23 Folder 8
Suggested questions on camouflage for interrogation of captured German submariners, 1945
Box 23 Folder 9
Preliminary report on the visibility of targets, prepared by Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, 1945

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Box 23 Folder 10
NOAA/NOIC (National Oceanographic Instrumentation Center) - Test and calibration procedures for underwater illuminometers, 1970-1972

Project 1-13160.

Box 23 Folder 11
NOAA/NESS (National Environmental Satellite Service) - Remote sensing of phytoplankton: The relationship between water color and growth rate, 1975-1976

UCSD-0372.

Box 23 Folder 12
NOAA/NESS (National Environmental Satellite Service) - Transmissometer system for water clarity, 1976
Box 23 Folder 13
NOAA/NOIC (National Oceanographic Instrumentation Center) - Preparation of text entitled "Handbook of Underwater Optical Instrumentation", 1976-1977

UCSD-0619.

Box 23 Folder 14
NOAA - Penetration of ultraviolet radiation into natural waters, 1976-1978

UCSD-0715, -0975, -1161. Contract no. 04-7-158-44039. Includes unofficial proposal and offers to the EPA, NASA, Plant Physiology Institution.

Box 23 Folder 15
NOAA/NESS (National Environmental Satellite Service) - Atmospheric transmittance and path radiance measurement and analysis, 1979-1980

UCSD-1501.

Box 23 Folder 16
NOAA - An assessment of the feasibility of using remote sensing from spacecraft to monitor water mass movement in the Florida Keys, 1980

UCSD-1822.

Box 23 Folder 17
NOAA - Man's impact on coral reefs, 1980

UCSD-1801.

Box 23 Folder 18
NOAA - Remote sensing of subsurface ocean water temperature profiles, 1981-1982

UCSD-2249.

Box 23 Folder 19
NOAA - Research on the effect of volume depolarization of laser Raman measurement in water, 1982-1983

UCSD-2614.

Box 23 Folder 20
NOAA National Marine Fisheries - A proposal to study the mesoscale ecology of marine mammals, 1981

UCSD-2051.

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Box 23 Folder 21
NSF - Alterations and additions to existing underwater spectrometer to prepare it for research in the ocean, 1965

UCSD-1522.

Box 23 Folder 22
NSF - Underwater radiance distribution measurements, 1965

UCSD-1544.

Box 23 Folder 23
NSF - Hydrologic optics, spacelight spectroscopy (Spectroradiometric measurements of the spacelight generated by multiple scattering of natural light in the ocean), 1967

UCSD-1744. Includes drawings of photometer.

Box 23 Folder 24
NSF - Hydrologic optics, including spectroradiometric measurements and correlating biological and physical measurements, 1968

UCSD-2573.

Box 23 Folder 25
NSF - Optical oceanography, 1969-1971

UCSD-3290.

Box 23 Folder 26
NSF - Measurement of radiance distributions in natural waters, 1969-1971

UCSD-3282 and -4137. Contract no. NSF-GA-19738.

Box 23 Folder 27
NSF - Application of image processing techniques to astronomical photography, 1970

UCSD-3843. Includes paper by McGlamery.

Box 23 Folder 28
NSF - Hydrologic optics and photosynthesis, 1971-1974

UCSD-4119 and -6317. Contract no. NSF-GA-19830.

Box 23 Folder 29
NSF - Spectral absorption coefficient of pure fresh water and pure sea water, 1973-1974

UCSD-6211.

Box 23 Folder 30
NSF - Penetration of ultraviolet radiation into natural waters, 1974-1976

UCSD-0007.

Box 23 Folder 31
NSF - Regulation of phytoplankton growth: a thermodynamic model, 1975-1977

UCSD-0295

Box 23 Folder 32
NSF - Quantitative study of the separate components of ocean water, 1976

UCSD-0189. Contract no. NSF-GA-19830.

Box 23 Folder 33
NSF - Marine photoecology, 1981-1984

UCSD-2261.

Box 23 Folder 34
NSF/Division of Polar Programs - Large-scale spatial and temporal variations of spectral reflection from snow, 1984-1986

UCSD-3200.

Box 23 Folder 35
NSF - Thermohaline circulation in the Gulf of California, 1985-1986

UCSD-3027.

Box 23 Folder 36
NSF - Application of Differential Optoacoustic Spectroscopy (DOAS) in phytoplankton absorption and production measurements, 1986-1989

UCSD-86-1292.

Box 23 Folder 37
National Transportation Safety Board - Air visibility studies, 1970-1973
Box 23 Folder 38
Pacific Gas and Electric - Study of wire and structure visibility enhancement techniques, 1976-1977

UCSD-0566.

Rome Air Development Center (RADC)

Box 23 Folder 39
RADC - Computer simulation of degraded imagery, 1973-1974

UCSD-5947; Contract no. F30602-73-C-0280.

Box 23 Folder 40
RADC - Stimulation studies of degraded space object imagery; Computer studies of compensated imaging techniques, 1974-1978

UCSD-6579, -0299, -0118. Contract nos. F30602-74-Q-0171 and F30602-74-C-0104.

Box 23 Folder 41
RADC - Computer studies of compensated imaging techniques, 1976-1978

UCSD-0499, Contract no. F30602-76-C-0027.

Box 23 Folder 42
RADC - Requirement analysis for an image processing facility, 1977-1979

UCSD-0724.

Box 23 Folder 43
RADC - CIS performance/CIS images, 1981-1984

UCSD-2067, -2485, -2924, and -3395.

Box 23 Folder 44
Sandia Laboratories - Water properties measurement support, 1969-1974
Box 23 Folder 45
Saudi-Sudanese Red Sea Joint Commission - Environmental monitoring of industrial development in the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf regions by satellite remote sensing, 1981-1983
Box 23 Folder 46
SIO, Marine Physical Laboratory - Side-looking sonar, ca. 1971
Box 23 Folder 47
World Bank - Test and evaluation program using satellite observations for the Somali fishery, 1984

UCSD-3656.

Box 23 Folder 48
Wright Air Development Center - Periscope problem, 1953

REMOTE SENSING OF OCEAN COLOR/CZCS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 6) REMOTE SENSING OF OCEAN COLOR/CZCS: In 1966, NASA provided funding to the Navy Oceanographic Office (NOO) to create the Spacecraft Oceanography (SPOC) Program Office. SPOC's charge was to coordinate and support research on the remote sensing of the oceans. In July 1971 SPOC was transferred from NOO to the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), and designated as the Remote Sensing Oceanography (ROSC) Project. In 1972 it was transferred to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Environmental Satellite Service (NESS). These files document the Visibility Lab's participation in the SPOC Program, especially S. Q. Duntley and Roswell Austin, who were pioneers in ocean color research and the related field of atmospheric optics.

In 1973, the Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS) program was approved. The CZCS, from its position aboard the Nimbus-7 spacecraft (launched in October 1978), was designed to collect imagery data about the oceans. In 1975, a SPOC Nimbus Experiment Team (NET), including Austin, was formed to develop algorithms for NASA to correct the CZCS's image data from derogation caused by atmospheric effects. They conducted "surface truth" cruises to capture oceanographic measurements to develop validation techniques for CZCS data. The latter parts of this series show the evolution of Visibility Lab's participation in remote sensing of ocean color research with the CZCS, with NOAA/NESS, NASA and Navy ONR/DARPA contracts. Additional material about the CZCS and ocean color research may also be found throughout the collection. For more information on the history of the SPOC Program and remote sensing of the oceans, see Ocean Colour: Theory and Applications in a Decade of CZCS Experience, ed. Barale and Schlittenhardt (1991).

Spacecraft Oceanography Project (SPOC)/Remote Sensing Oceanography Project (RSOP), 1967-1974

Box 24 Folder 1-3
Correspondence and memoranda, 1967-1972
Box 24 Folder 4
Activity reports and summaries - Remote sensing of ocean color, Multispectral photography, and Sea state by optical techniques, 1970-1971
Box 24 Folder 5
Proposals and contracts, 1970-1972

UCSD-3834, -4110, -4435.

Box 24 Folder 6
SPOC/ROSP meeting - Trials of NASA/TRW Scanning Image Spectroradiometer (SIS) and remote sensing, 1971-1974
Box 24 Folder 7
Research and drafts for NASA 1972 summary report
Box 24 Folder 8
SPOC technical memorandum - High altitude ocean color experiment, by R. W. Austin and C. F. Edgerton, 1972 June
Box 24 Folder 9
SPOC project binder, 1972-1974

Contract N00014-69-A-0200-6033.

NOAA/NESS - Remote sensing of ocean properties by means of visible light, 1973-1984

Box 24 Folder 10
Correspondence and memoranda, 1973-1978
Box 24 Folder 11
Research proposals, 1974-1978
Box 24 Folder 12
Research grants, 1973, 1976
Box 24 Folder 13
Notes and drafts on NOAA/NESS ocean color research, 1976-1978
Box 24 Folder 14-15
Austin, R. The remote sensing of ocean color - Research notebooks #5 and 6, 1977-1984

Notebooks document cruises and reference CZCS Nimbus-7 data; probably referring to joint NASA and NOAA research. Notebook 6 includes Northeast Experiment data from R/V Oceanus.

Box 24 Folder 16
Project binder (contract NA80AA-D-00007), 1979-1983

NASA - Nimbus-7 Satellite, 1978-1984

Box 24 Folder 17
Wilson, W. H. and R. W. Austin. Papers on Remote sensing of ocean color, ca. 1978

Summary of program history and goals for CZCS, and NASA's Nimbus-7 Experiment Team (NET), including "surface truth" cruise research goals, algorithm development, etc.

Box 24 Folder 18
NASA/Goddard Spaceflight Center - Remote sensing surface truth cruises of the R/V New Horizon and Oceanus, 1979

UCSD-1375, -1474.

Box 24 Folder 19
Austin, R. "Image processing: CZCS CRTT" research notebook, 1979-1982
Box 24 Folder 20
Austin, R. W. Solar spectral irradiances for CZCS channels 1-4, 1979-1982

Includes technical memorandum DL-002-82t, 004-082t.

Box 24 Folder 21
NASA/Goddard Spaceflight Center - Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS) validation studies, 1980-1982

UCSD-1922, -2402, -2363, and -2620, contract NAS 5-26249.

Box 24 Folder 22
Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS) applications summary, 1981
Box 24 Folder 23
Austin, R. W. CZCS algorithm summary, and notes, 1981-1982
Box 24 Folder 24
Nimbus Experiment Team (NET) CZCS System meetings - Notes, 1977, 1982-1984

Navy (Office of Naval Research)/DARPA - Assessment and Modeling of Ocean Optical Properties (MOOP), 1978-1986

Box 24 Folder 25
MOOP Project binder, 1978-1980

Related to Nimbus-7 research program; multi-spectral radiance images, obtained from CZCS, to measure diffuse attenuation coefficient (K). Contract N00014-78-C-0566.

Box 24 Folder 26
MOOP Project binder, 1981-1984
Box 25 Folder 1
MOOP Project binder (UCSD 3936), 1985-1986
Box 25 Folder 2
MOOP multi-task proposals, 1983-1985

NOAA/NASA/JPL Fisheries Demonstration Program, 1980-1985

Box 25 Folder 3
Correspondence, notes and memoranda, 1980-1985
Box 25 Folder 4
Reports and brochures, 1980-1985
Box 25 Folder 5
Fisheries Demonstration Program project binder, 1981
Box 25 Folder 6
Austin, R. Fisheries Demonstration Program research notebooks, 1981
Box 25 Folder 7
Proposals, 1981, 1984

UCSD-3059, -2110.

RESEARCH, WRITINGS AND PRESENTATIONS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 7) RESEARCH, WRITINGS AND PRESENTATIONS: A large series of research files, notebooks, manuscripts, technical memoranda, and other written work product by Visibility Lab researchers, arranged chronologically. Much of the material complements files in Series 5) PROJECTS, PROPOSALS AND CONTRACTS.

Box 25 Folder 8
Inventory of Vis Lab reports by SIO Reference number, 1970 July
Box 25 Folder 9
Glass analyzer - Sketches by J. Taylor, ca. 1940

Haze paint, 1940-1944

Box 25 Folder 10
Correspondence and research, 1940-1944

Documentation of a paint developed by Samuel Cabot of Boston, which was tested by the Physics Department and Visibility Laboratory at MIT. Haze paint application and visibility was tested by the NDRC, the War Department's Air Corps Materiel Division, and the Navy.

Box 25 Folder 11
Scattering calculations, ca. 1941
Box 25 Folder 12
The application of haze paint to aircraft camouflage - Engineering report, 1942 March 17
Box 25 Folder 13
Duntley, S. Q. Camouflage research for Passive Defense Project, Board of Engineers, 1941-1942

The PDP was established in Boston by the WPA; the Corps of Engineers assumed technical supervision of the project in 1941 at Fort Belvoir. File contains correspondence and memoranda to and by Duntley (while he was at MIT in the Physics Department), a lecture on pigments and camouflage coatings, and research.

Box 25 Folder 14
Jenkins, F. A. Optical investigations completed to December 10, 1941. UC Division of National Defense Research, 1941
Box 25 Folder 15
Tilles, I. H. and A. B. Wyse. The possibility of underwater television as a supplement to underwater photography, 1942
Box 25 Folder 16
Varney, F. M. Underwater rescue light and sound source - Suggested outline for development program, 1942
Box 25 Folder 17
Wyse, A. B. Progress report on underwater photography, 1942
Box 25 Folder 18
Austin, R. W. Notes on parallel T. networks, design and analysis, 1943-1946
Box 25 Folder 19
General Electric - Austin's work on UAGL range unit and AGC analyses, 1944-1948
Box 25 Folder 20
Radial flux transfer, ca. 1945

Includes unidentified contract proposal, "Theoretical study of the attenuation of the thermal radiation by smoke."

Box 25 Folder 21
Duntley, S. Q. The reduction of apparent contrast by the atmosphere, ca. 1946

Includes draft for presentation on "Measurements of apparent contrast."

Box 25 Folder 22
General Electric, General Engineering and Consulting Laboratory - Austin's notes on atmospherical optics, ca. 1948-1951

Includes Transmission, backscattering tests, and transducer no. 2.

Box 25 Folder 23
Underwater photography in turbid water, 1949
Box 25 Folder 24
Sea state analysis, 1949-1953

Diamond Island, NH Field Station - Hydrological optics research, 1949-1968

Box 25 Folder 25
Personal property inventory
Box 25 Folder 26
Negatives
Box 25 Folder 27
Transcription of meeting, 1953
Box 25 Folder 28
Tower and punt shots, with photographs, 1945-1956
Box 25 Folder 29
Barge data and contrast reduction, 1948
Box 25 Folder 30
Barge data, 1948-1949
Box 25 Folder 31
Secchi disk readings, 1948-1949
Box 25 Folder 32
Radio notes and diagrams, 1949, 1951
Box 25 Folder 33
Finkelstein's notebook, 1949
Box 25 Folder 34-36
Radiance distribution data, 1956
Box 25 Folder 37
Project file, 1956-1958

Includes correspondence, clipping and project documentation with various divisions of the Navy, including NEL, BuShips, ONR, and the Bureau of Aeronautics. Research included submarine visibility and concealment. See also PROJECTS, PROPOSALS AND CONTRACTS series, Navy/ONR subseries.

Box 25 Folder 38
Data, 1960
Box 25 Folder 39-41
Experimental log books, 1962-1968
Box 25 Folder 42
Duntley, S. Q. Transmission of images through a lighted atmosphere - Draft, ca. 1950
Box 25 Folder 43
Ensminger, R. Exacta shutter calibrations, ca. 1950
Box 25 Folder 44
Austin, R. W. Investigation of type B electronic tachometer for A.G.T., 1950
Box 25 Folder 45
Meteorological range meter, 1950-1953
Box 25 Folder 46
Camouflage reflectance experiments, San Diego harbor, 1951
Box 25 Folder 47
Coules, J. and E. Robinson. The role of brightness patterns in visual perception, 1952 February 2
Box 25 Folder 48-49
Duntley, S. Q. Visibility of submerged objects - Lectures and reports, 1952-1954
Box 26 Folder 1
Blackwell, H. Richard. Recommended procedure for use in visibility calculations, 1953 April 17
Box 26 Folder 2
Hood, John M. Photomultiplier response to Zenith skylight, 1953 July
Box 26 Folder 3
Moe, Mildred. The attenuation of light by sea water, 1953 September 3
Box 26 Folder 4
Preisendorfer, R. W. Graphical-numerical calculation of the primary luminance field about a submerged point source; and Detection of shadows in a luminance field, 1953-1954
Box 26 Folder 5
Bryant, John. Laboratory notebook, 1953-1955
Box 26 Folder 6
Austin, R. Laboratory notebook, 1953-1964
Box 26 Folder 7
Visibility meter and sky-state meter - Proposals, ca. 1953
Box 26 Folder 8
Austin. R. W. Lecture notes on optics and photometry, 1953-1956
Box 26 Folder 9
Duntley, S. Q. The importance of optically clean absorption cells in the determination of the concentration of dye solutions, ca. 1954
Box 26 Folder 10
Boileau, A. R. Sphere program, 1954
Box 26 Folder 11
Boileau, A. R. Notebook, 1954
Box 26 Folder 12
Culver, William. Background material for the consideration of optical scanning systems, 1954 May 27
Box 26 Folder 13-14
Whitney, William M. Wind-blown sea surface papers and report file, 1954 June, October

Research sponsored by Navy BuShips contract NOBs-50274.

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Culver, Fred R. Transmission of light by the surface of a natural body of water, with photographs, 1954 June 7
Box 26 Folder 16
Tyler, John E. and R. W. Austin. The isolation of air-type thermopiles for use in the Pt. Loma area, 1954 June 7

Research sponsored by Navy BuShips contract NOBs-50274.

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Brown, Dayton R. E. Visual search and concealment countermeasures: A series of talks originally prepared for underwater demolition units and teams of the amphibious Command, U.S. Navy, 1954 July
Box 26 Folder 18
Tyler, John E. The apparent spectral distribution and colors of underwater objects as seen by swimmers, 1954 July

Sponsored by Navy BuShips contract NOBs-43356.

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Preisendorfer, R. W. An exact evaluation of the reflectance of a flat surface for a radiance distribution of the form, 1954 August 18
Box 26 Folder 20
Takle, K. J. et al. Theory of visual spatial integration (NEL), 1954 September 8
Box 26 Folder 21
Culver, William. Description of a new wave-slope meter, 1954 October

Research sponsored by Navy BuShips contract NOBs-50274.

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Brettler, B. J. Feasibility study: Xenon flash lamp polar nephelometer, 1954 October 5
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Distribution of luminance in the lower sky during twilight, 1954 October 14
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Duntley, S. Q. Visibility from aircraft. Optical Society of America, Los Angeles, CA, 1954 October 14
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Duntley, S. Q. Notes on lectures on physiological optics and visibility calculations, 1954 November-December
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Williams, E. Allan and C. L. Utterback. Periodic measurements of submarine illumination and spectral extinction coefficients in tidal waters, 1954 December 28
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Ballard, S. S. A program in environmental optics, 1955
Box 26 Folder 28
Harris, James L. Notebook, 1955

Includes sections on calculation of binocular visual detection lobes, and Signal-to-noise ratio in RC circuits.

Box 26 Folder 29
Howard, F. J. et al. A three polarizer calibration unit for photometric instruments, 1955
Box 26 Folder 30
Tyler, J. E. Measurement of light in the sea, 1955
Box 26 Folder 31
Wilts, James R. and H. R. Cardoza. Notebook, 1955

Includes notes on downed aviator rescue (searchlight beams).

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Tyler, J. E. and S. Q. Duntley. The apparent color of underwater objects, 1955
Box 26 Folder 33
Preisendorfer, R. The apparent radiance of submerged objects, 1955
Box 26 Folder 34
Moore, Thomas W. Sea surface luminance, 1955 April 8
Box 26 Folder 35-36
Snodgrass, H. R. Notes on development of sky-state meter, 1955-1958

Notes include topics: K values for ARDC model atmosphere; progress reports; shadow effects in sea-reflection; transmittance; procedures for calculation of k values; attenuation coefficient.

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Cardoza, H. R. Notebook, and high voltage power supply patent, 1956-1957
Box 26 Folder 38
Duntley, S. Q. Visual detection of aircraft, ca. 1956
Box 26 Folder 39
Ballard, S. S. Selection criteria for optical materials, 1956

Presented at Optical Society of America (OSA).

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Duntley, S. Q. Image transmission by the troposphere, 1956
Box 26 Folder 41
Duntley, S. Q. Penetration of light into the sea. Symposium on Deep Sea Research, 1956 February
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Preisendorfer, R. W. A new method for the determination of the volume scattering function in environmental optics, 1956 March

Report on a portion of the work completed under contract Nobs-50274 between BuShips (Navy) and S. Q. Duntley.

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Harris, James L. Detection engineering seminar lecture, 1956 May-June
Box 26 Folder 44
Ballard, S. S. Modern infrared physics. San Diego Physics Club Seminar presentation, 1956 June 21
Box 26 Folder 45
Duntley, S. Q. Two decades of development in atmospheric optics. Boston University, Physical Research Laboratory Symposium on Atmospheric Optics, 1956 August-September
Box 26 Folder 46
Duntley, S. Q. Concealment design by engineering methods, 1956 November 12
Box 26 Folder 47
Preisendorfer, R. Derivation and solution of equations of transfer for irradiance in a cylindrical coordinate system - Notes, 1956 November 30
Box 26 Folder 48
Duntley, S. Q. et al. The reduction of contrast by atmospheric boil, 1956-1957

Research sponsored by the Navy, BuShips. Related to the Florida Atmospheric Optics experiments at Patrick AB. Includes photographs.

Box 26 Folder 49
Boileau, A. R. Research notes and draft memoranda, 1956-1961
Box 26 Folder 50-51
Harris, James L. Image Orthicon (I-O) modification patent and notebook, 1956-1961

Includes patent documentation related to a device Harris developed during execution of Navy contract Nobs-72092, "Apparatus and method for detection of targets at high light levels."

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Use of high altitude parachute flares and other sources of illumination for night search operations for small targets, ca. 1957

Coast Guard report; search and rescue (SAR) operation research.

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Farkington. Notebook, 1957
Box 27 Folder 3
Nelson, A. L. Photo-electronic scanning celestial altitude navigation system, 1957
Box 27 Folder 4
Duntley, S. Q. Atmospheric limitations on missile photography, 1957

Research sponsored by the Navy, BuShips. Related to the Florida Atmospheric Optics experiments.

Box 27 Folder 5
Harris, James L. Shimmer meter calibration, 1957 January-February

Research sponsored by the Navy, BuShips. Related to the Florida Atmospheric Optics experiments.

Box 27 Folder 6
Duntley, S. Q. et al. The reduction of contrast by atmospheric boil, 1957
Box 27 Folder 7
Target luminance - Notes, 1957 March
Box 27 Folder 8
Harris, James L. Radiometric terminology applied to photosensitive detectors, 1957 April 2
Box 27 Folder 9
Preisendorfer, R. W. Exact reflectance under a cardoidal luminance distribution, 1957
Box 27 Folder 10
Silvernail, C. J. and Duntley, S. Q. A variable range simulator, 1957
Box 27 Folder 11
Tyler, J. E. Experimental and computed path radiance in the submarine light field, 1957
Box 27 Folder 12
Tyler, J. E. Monochromatic measurement of the volume scattering of natural waters, 1957

Contract NObs-72092.

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Duntley, S. Q. B-29 data from Test 691 at White Sands, NM, 1957 May-August
Box 27 Folder 14
Duntley, S. Q. and Harris, J. L. Method for the measurement of atmospheric boil, 1957

Presented at the OSA meeting on October 19, 1957.

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Lindroth, Sidney. Recorder event marker, 1957-1959
Box 27 Folder 16
Harris, James L. High-frequency-noise gain control circuit patent, 1957-1959
Box 27 Folder 17
Howarth, C. I. The human eye as a detector of threshold signals, 1958
Box 27 Folder 18
Harris, James L. Measurement of absorption, 1958 August 27
Box 27 Folder 19
Preisendorfer, R. W. and Tyler, J. E. The measurement of light in natural waters, 1958
Box 27 Folder 20
Preisendorfer, R. W. Some practical consequences of the asymptotic radiance hypothesis, 1958
Box 27 Folder 21
Preisendorfer, R. W. On the radiant density field produced by search lights in scattering media I. Theoretical Analysis, 1958
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Preisendorfer, R. W. A sea surface simulator, 1958

Contract NObs-72039.

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Harris, James L. Summator concepts and mechanizations, 1958 November 3
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Harris, J. L. Recognizer, 1958-1959
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Tyler, J. E. Comparison of light distribution above and below water, 1958
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Tyler, J. E. and Rennilson, J. J. On the measurement of light in the sea, 1958

Contract NObs-72092. Presented at the London Symposium on Underwater Visibility on January 5-6, 1959.

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Tyler, J. E. Underwater search procedure, 1958

Contract NObs-72092.

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Tyler, J. E. Measurements of water clarity at San Clemente, 1959
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Tyler, J. E. et al. The prediction of image contrast along submerged paths of sight, 1959

Research sponsored under contract NObs-72092.

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Boileau, A. R. Notes on operation and calibration of Spectra Brightness Spot Meter, 1959

Research sponsored under contract NObs-72092.

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Contrast reduction calculations; contrast reduction meter operation manual, ca. 1959
Box 27 Folder 32
Ensminger, R. L. Multiplier phototube secondary emission characteristics, 1959

Contract NObs-72092.

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Gordon, J. I. Concealment design by engineering methods, 1959

Includes reference to haze paint/camouflage.

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Gordon, J. I. Paint source and short target duration visibility calculations, 1959
Box 27 Folder 35
Harris, James L. CDC as haze detector analysis, 1959 March
Box 27 Folder 36
Preisendorfer, R. W. On ground-based measurements of the optical properties of the atmosphere aloft, 1959
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Preisendorfer, R. W. Radiance bounds, 1959
Box 27 Folder 38
Gordon, J. I. Analysis of Blackwell, et. al Field and simulator studies for air to ground visibility distances, 1959 April
Box 27 Folder 39
Harris, James L. Models of the visual system, 1959 June-July
Box 27 Folder 40
Harris, James L. The effect of optical aberration upon the angular location of a point source, 1959 November 20
Box 27 Folder 41
Harris, James L. Comparison of Image Orthicon (I-O) and multiplier phototube systems, 1959 December 14
Box 27 Folder 42
Boileau, A. R. Illuminometer flat-plate collector, ca. 1960

Work done under BuShips contract N0bs-84-75.

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Duntley, S. Q. Derivation of the contrast reduction equation, and Examples of water clarity data II, 1960 June

Produced under contract NObs-72039.

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Boileau, A. R. Some special sky radiances with different relative humidity, 1960

Produced under BuShips contract Nobs-72092. Presented at a meeting of the Optical Society of America in Boston, MA.

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Gordon, J. I. Sea state simulator memorandum, 1960
Box 27 Folder 46
Tyler, J. E. The ocean as an optical medium, 1960

Produced under BuShips contract Nobs-72092. Presented at the April 13 meeting of the Optical Society of Southern California.

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Harris, James L. Recognition mechanisms, need and status, 1960

Presented at the Optical Society of Southern California meeting in Los Angeles, CA.

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Harris, James L. Analytic visual search calculations, 1960 September

Produced under contract NObs-72039.

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Sandberg, Robert W. Underwater research notebooks, 1960 October
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Nephelometer - Development of a data reduction program, 1960-1961
Box 27 Folder 52
Boileau, A. R. Instrumented C-130 airplane for visibility, 1960-1961

Presented at the November 14-16 meeting of the American Meteorological Society in Tallahassee, Florida. Includes memoranda regarding C-130 instrumentation.

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Harris, James L. Sensor system design study - Draft report, 1961 February
Box 27 Folder 54
Boileau, A. R. Determination of cathode sensitivity of multiplier phototubes by means of hardy spectrophotometer. Optical Society of America, Los Angeles, CA, 1961 October
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Duntley, S. Q. Target detection and identification problems in attack with conventional weapons against land targets, 1961 November

Presented for the Navy Operations Evaluation Group conference.

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Harris, James L. Kollsman proposal; KIC-RD 110, 1961 December 28
Box 27 Folder 57
Harris, James L. Fundamental atmospheric limitations on image recording, 1961

Produced under BuShips contract Nobs-84075. Presented at the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers Symposium.

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Taylor, J. H. and Rennilson, J. J. A compressed scale system of portable visibility lights for nighttime use, 1961
Box 27 Folder 59
Tyler, J. E. Design theory for a submersible scattering meter, 1961
Box 27 Folder 60
Harris, James L. Review of Air Force document 61ASRN-3716, 1962 March 23
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Harris, J. L. Informational engineering, 1962

Contract NObs-72092.

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Tyler, J. E. Estimation of percent polarization in deep ocean water, 1962-1963
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Tyler, J. E. and Shaules, A. Daylight irradiance of a flat object underwater, ca. 1962-1964
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Boileau, A. R. Contrast reduction, 1963
Box 27 Folder 65
Church, P. V. and Shaules, A. L. Standard values for solar properties, 1963
Box 27 Folder 66
Harris, James L. Image restoration, 1963
Box 27 Folder 67
Austin, R. W. Techniques of measurement - Draft for publication in Applied Optics , 1963-1964
Box 27 Folder 68
Jones, R. Clark (Polaroid Corp.). Terminology in photometry and radiometry, with correspondence and response by R. W. Preisendorfer, 1963-1964
Box 27 Folder 69
Memos re: photometric and radiometric conversions and comparisons, by Boileau and Austin, 1964 January
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Boileau, A. R. Dimensional analysis of radiometric and photometric equations, 1964
Box 27 Folder 71
Gordon, J. I. and P. V. Church. Error analysis of Pahrump and Wright-Patterson data, 1964
Box 27 Folder 72
Harris, J. L. Diffraction and resolving power, 1964
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Harris, J. L. Resolving power and decision theory, 1964
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Howarth, R. F. The incandescent lamp as a control system element, 1964
Box 27 Folder 75
Preisendorfer, R. W. An outline of geometrical phluometry, 1964
Box 27 Folder 76
Ruff, B. J. Calibration of optical instrumentation used in visibility laboratory atmospheric research, 1964
Box 27 Folder 77
Smith, H. H. A source of error in the mire system, 1964
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Tyler, J. E. and Austin, R. W. A scattering meter for deep water, 1964

Meter constructed for the Navy's deep submersible TRIESTE.

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Harris, James L. Noise equivalence in space and time, 1964 January 6
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Tyler, J. E. In situ detection and estimation of chlorophyll and other pigments - preliminary results, 1964

Presented at the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

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Tyler, J. E. The color of the ocean, 1964
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Taylor, J. H. Comments on Major Gordon Cooper's observations from orbit, 1964

Presented at the Spring meeting of the Armed Forces-NRC Committee on Vision in Washington, D.C. on April 23, 1964.

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Austin, R. Atmospheric attenuation in the visible and near-infrared spectrum. Prepared for Perkin-Elmer Corp., 1964 July
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Taylor, J. H. Visual tasks in space, 1964

Presented at the Human Factors Meeting in Washington, D.C. on October 21, 1964.

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McGlamery, B. L. Film granularity and the RADI scanner, 1964 October 30
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Boileau, A. R. A proposed solution for a baffling problem, 1965
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Boileau, A. R. Calculation of solid angles, 1965
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Boileau, A. R. Geometry of path function meter, 1965
Box 28 Folder 4
Duntley, S. Q., Jacqueline I. Gordon, and James Harris. Earth-to-Space transmittance measurements from ground stations, 1965, 1968

CV-68-003t. Includes Boeing status report on "Atmospheric interactions with coherent light" and a letter on related research programs by James Harris, re: Bill Allen at the Ames Research Center. With 1968 re-write.

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Taylor, J. H. Use and abuse of Riccò's law, 1965 May 27
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Boileau, A. R. The case of an extended source irradiating an extended area, 1965
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Harris, J. L. Image evaluation and restoration, 1965
Box 28 Folder 8
Harris, J. L. and Duntley, S. Q. Mechanisms of spatial summation, 1965
Box 28 Folder 9
Resnick, Ira L. The prediction of contrast transmittance by the atmosphere, 1965 August 3
Box 28 Folder 10
Boileau, Almerian R. Scalar irradiance meter, ca. 1965
Box 28 Folder 11
Tyler, John E. Design theory for a submersible scattering meter, ca. 1965
Box 28 Folder 12
Tyler, John E. Experimental procedures for the measurement of the basic constructs, ca. 1965
Box 28 Folder 13
Boileau, A. R. and Gordon, J. I. Atmospheric properties and reflectances of ocean water and other surfaces for a low sun, 1965
Box 28 Folder 14
Church, P. V. and Gordon, J. I. Beam transmittance in an optical standard atmosphere, 1965
Box 28 Folder 15
Gordon, J. I. Point source visual thresholds and signal light nomogram, 1965-1970
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Gordon, J. I. and P. V. Church. Optical properties of the atmosphere and of ocean water for the orbital vertical path of sight, 1965

Contract NObs-84075 (fifth report of assignment 9).

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Gordon, J. I. and Church, P. V. Overcast sky luminances and directional luminous reflections of objects and backgrounds under overcast skies, 1965
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Boileau, A. R. Test of e-meter with polarized light, 1965 December 15
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Church, P. V. Tables of relative optical air mass, 1965-1966
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Boileau, A. R. Let's go metric, 1966
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Duntley, S. Q. Principles of underwater lighting, 1966

Includes drafts of prepared remarks on the topic for several difference conferences. Includes program for SPIE Seminar on Underwater Photo-optics.

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Ensminger, R. L. and R. F. Howarth. Photocathode protection circuit, 1966
Box 28 Folder 23
Tyler, John E. A survey of experimental hydrologic optics. Symposium on Interdisciplinary Aspects of Radiative Transfer in Philadelphia, PA, 1966 February 24-26
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Tyler, John E. and Raymond Smith. A submersible spectroradiometer, 1966 April
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Gordon, J. I. Evaluation of the transmittance, path luminance and R predictive technique suggested by Ira Resnick, 1966 August 19
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Optical properties of submarine paints, 1966 October 10
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Preliminary assessment of the optical properties of WESTPAC waters, 1966 October 10
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Boileau, A. R. Optical tests of C-130 scanner no. 1, 1966 November 14
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Underwater lasers - Lecture notes, Oceanography seminar, 1966 November 14
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Hinton, Robert M. Submerged visibility countermeasures, a status report, 1966 November 23

Qualification for command thesis.

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Harris, James L. Sensitometry for image processing; Precision in visibility calculations, 1966 December 29
Box 28 Folder 32
Smith, Raymond C. and John E. Tyler. Optical properties of clear natural water; Colour of "pure" water, 1966-1967

NSF-supported research on Crater Lake.

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Gordon, Jacqueline. Error analysis of equations for obtaining path radiance; Determination of path radiance, 1966-1967
Box 28 Folder 34
Mather, J. Research summaries and notes, 1967
Box 28 Folder 35
McGlamery, B. L. Processing of Pegasus satellite pictures, 1967
Box 28 Folder 36
Harris, James L. Computer processing of atmospherically regarded images, 1967
Box 28 Folder 37
Tyler, John E. Spectroradiometry in the natural light field underwater, 1967

Includes a related paper draft with R. C. Smith as a co-author.

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Gordon, J. I. et al. Signal light nomogram, 1967

Supported by NASA grant NGR-05-009-059.

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Preisendorfer, R. W. Fast transforms, 1967
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McGlamery, B. L. Image processing of satellite photographs, 1967 February
Box 28 Folder 41
Duntley, S. Q. Light, oceans, and man - Inaugural lecture, 1967 February 28
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Preisendorfer, R. W. A mathematical framework for image restoration, 1967 April 1
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Boileau, Almerian R. Symbols and notation used in atmospheric optics, 1967 April 20
Box 28 Folder 44
Harris, James L. Laser-white diffraction limited restorations, 1967 April 21
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Gordon, Jacqueline. Calibration of the Beuttell and Brewer instrument, 1967 May
Box 28 Folder 46
Shaules, Alma. Programs PEG3, PEG6B, PEG6C, 1967 July
Box 28 Folder 47
Johnson, Richard W. Minimum design requirements integrating nephelometer, airborne, 1967 August 4
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Howarth, R. F. Evaluation of image dissector Westinghouse WL-23111 - Final conclusions, 1967 October 10
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Gordon, Jacqueline I. and P. V. Church. Limb darkening of the sun; Inherent radiance of the center of the sun, 1967-1968

Technical memorandum GP-67-001t and related drafts and memoranda. Supported by NASA grant NGR-05-009-059.

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Research of visibility problems, memoranda by J. I. Gordon, 1967-1969

Gordon's memos detail her work on various Navy/BuShips visibility projects, including CVC (Computerized Visibility Calculator) projects, and Shedlight.

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Gordon, Jacqueline I. A model of a clear atmosphere, 1967 October 26

Technical memorandum GP-67-002t. Supported by NASA grant NGR-05-009-059.

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Gordon, J. I. Informal proposal for further work on air-water interface; Directional sea radiance (luminance), 1967 December 6

Technical memorandum No. GP-67-003t.

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Edwards, Tate and Bailey. Technical memoranda EN-67-001t-002t, EN-68-001t-007t, EN-70-030t, 1967-1968, 1970

Includes information on C-130 project, underwater volume scatter meter, proposal to NASA for making direct spectral sensitivity measurements of photosensitive detectors, and submarine visibility system.

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M.P.L (broom stick) project, 1968

Includes photographs.

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Gordon, J. I. et al. Compendium of ground-based data on irradiance (illuminance), earth-to-space beam transmittance, and vertical path radiance (luminance). Part I. Portable instrumentation, 1968
Box 28 Folder 56
Gordon, J. I. et al. Model atmospheres memoranda, 1968

Technical memos No. CV-68-001t-005t. Includes "Method of measuring earth-to-space contrast transmittance from ground stations" co-authored by Duntley and Harris.

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Boileau, Almerian R. Memos on equilibrium radiance and attenuation length, 1968 January-February

Technical memoranda AT68-001t, -002t, -003t.

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Linge, Ed. "AOC mark" notebook, 1968 July

Research and outline of approach for extending the resolution capability of conventional microscopes.

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Gordon, J. I. and R. A. Erickson. Field evaluation of a visual detection model, 1969 July 21
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McGlamery, B. L. Effects of noise in the restoration of turbulence degraded images, 1968 November 22
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Harris, James L. A cursory view of the image/An electromagnetic view of the image, ca. 1968
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Harris, James L. Two dimensional Fourier transforms, and notes on image processing with Fourier analysis, 1968
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Howarth, R. F. Spectral filtering of detector and field illuminator, 1969

Technical memoranda LO-69-001t-003t.

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Technical memoranda, EN69-001t through -003t, 1969

Topics include submarine visibility, fast pulse detector system, comparison of white reflectance standards, and lamp boxes.

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Stokseth, Per A. Properties of a defocused optical system, ca. 1969
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McGlamery, B. L. Comparison of O.T.F.'s for central obscuration, 1969 March 24
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Harris, James L. Reflectance of the moon, 1969 March 31
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Austin, R. W. Interim report on reflectance of submarine topside paints, 1969 April 1

Technical memorandum ML-69-001t.

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Harris, James L. Limitations of simple coherent optical systems, 1969 May

Part of the final report for Navy contract Nobs-90337.

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Duntley, S. Q. Prediction of visual recognition range. NATO Seminar, 1969 June

Presented at seminar on Detection, Recognition, and Identification of Line-of-Sight Targets, the Hague, Netherlands.

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Preliminary adjacent studies, 1969 June 2
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Nephelometer memoranda, 1969 June-July
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MacAdam, D. P. Digital image restoration by constrained deconvolution, 1969 August
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Taylor, John H. and H. Richard Blackwell. Survey of laboratory studies of visual detection. NATO Seminar, 1969 August

Presented at seminar on Detection, Recognition, and Identification of Line-of-Sight Targets, the Hague, Netherlands.

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Richardson, William. A Bayesian-based iterative method of image restoration, 1969 August 15
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Harris, James L. Computer filtering of noisy imagery, 1970
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Tyler, John E. Aspects of the program in optical oceanography at the Visibility Laboratory, 1970

Presented at a Specialists Meeting sponsored by the Electromagnetic Wave propagation Panel of the Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development (AGARD), NATO.

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Duntley, S. Q. Interaction of optical energy with the atmosphere, 1970
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Austin, R. W. Assessing underwater visibility - Materials for publication in Optical Spectra , 1970 February-May
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Ensminger, R. L. and R. F. Howarth. An inner raster CRT photo generator, 1970 May
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Petzold, T. J. Method for measurement of atmospheric beam transmission to determine the beam transmission coefficient, 1970 October 15

Memorandum EN-70-003t.

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Gordon, J. I. On Duntley's The reduction of apparent contrast by the atmosphere, 1970 November

Technical memorandum AV-70-055t.

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Duntley, S. Q. and Robert E. Stevenson. Ocean color as a measure of marine resources, 1971
Box 29 Folder 15
Harris, James L. Advanced automated visibility simulation. Human factors in aircraft accident investigation: Proceedings of second annual seminar, the Society of Air Safety Investigators, 1971
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Smith, Raymond. Scientific cruise report, Fresnel II aboard R/V Ellen B. Scripps, Gulf of California, 1971
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Duntley, S. Q. Observations and measurement of point spread functions of ocean water, 1971

Drafts assembled for a meeting of the ARPA Working Session on Underwater Optical Scattering and Imaging.

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Harris, James L. Summary of Langley visit: Visual search experiments and DMS and TS simulators, 1971 July 15
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Austin, R. W. Precision in the measurement of volume attenuation coefficient, 1971 October 13

Technical memorandum ML-71-004t.

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Monte Carlo output - Notes by McGlamery, 1971, 1977
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Harris, James L. P.S.F. data reduction memo, 1972 January 12
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Duntley, S. Q. Resolution limitations by natural waters; and Underwater visibility and photography, 1972 June

Submitted for symposium on Optical Aspects of Oceanography (Scientific Commission on Physical Oceanography of IAPSO), Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Comments on the MTF Meter, 1972
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Comments on W. Wells' "Loss of resolution in water as a result of multiple small angle scattering", 1972
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Austin, R. W. Problems in measuring turbidity as a water quality parameter - Presented at EPA Seminar on Medidology for Monitoring the Marine Environment, 1973
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Austin, R. W. Turbidity: Some definitions, methods of measurement and problems, 1973 March 9
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Austin, R. W. and Petzold, T. J. Temperature dependence of an underwater light source, 1973 March 13
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Austin, R. W. and Petzold, T. J. Test and calibration procedures for underwater transmissometers, 1973 June 20

Prepared for NOAA, NOIC.

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Unconventional underwater imagery (CRT scanner), 1973

Includes research proposal UCSD-6308 and technical memorandum UV-73-055t on CRT scanning system.

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Austin, R. W. and Petzold. Temperature dependence of an underwater light source/Underwater measurements of two light sources, 1973
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Selection from the report of R. W. Austin from the data report of the SCOR Discover Expedition (ed. John E. Tyler), ca. 1974
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Austin, R. W. A quantum meter for oceanographic studies: Description and instruction, 1974 February

Prepared for the Department of Oceanography at the University of Washington, Seattle. Includes photographs.

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Austin, R. W. Instrumentation used in turbidity measurement. From NOIC proceedings, Turbidity Workshop, Washington, D.C., 1974 May
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Harris, James L. Brief study of new techniques for photographic photometry, 1974 June

Technical memorandum AD-74-007t.

Box 29 Folder 35
Austin, R. W. and T. J. Petzold. Considerations in the design and evaluation of oceanographic transmissometers, ca. 1975
Box 29 Folder 36
Harris, James L. Thoughts about glow field - Memo and notes, 1975

Technical memoranda AD-75-008t, -010t.

Box 29 Folder 37
Morel, A. AGARD report, Part III (English translation), 1975 July 10
Box 29 Folder 38
Austin, R. W. Narrow band spectral response for Bialkali photometers, 1975 September

Technical memorandum ML-75-088t.

Box 29 Folder 39
Austin, R. W. Optical properties of water - Amazon River, ca. 1975
Box 29 Folder 40
Austin, R. The remote sensing of ocean color - Presentation, ca. 1975
Box 29 Folder 41
Calibration of BGR-B10-UW light meters for Kaiser Engineers, 1976

Technical memorandum ML-76-009t.

Box 29 Folder 42
Petzold, T. J. and J. L. Harris. Simple geometric models of scattering, 1976 January-February

Technical memoranda AD-002/003-76 and AD-005-76.

Box 29 Folder 43
Board, Steve. Volume scattering function at small angles, 1976 March 4

Technical memorandum EN-002-76.

Box 29 Folder 44
Harris, J. L. Introductory comments on image processing in the human visual system. Psychology Department lecture, 1976 March
Box 29 Folder 45
Duntley, S. Q. Ocean color due to subsurface conditions, 1976 March 5
Box 29 Folder 46
Air calibration of hydro transmissometers, 1976 April 21

Technical memoranda ML-76-006t.

Box 29 Folder 47
Board, Steve and J. L. Harris. Deconvolution, 1976 April 29

Technical memorandum EN-76-003t.

Box 29 Folder 48
Petzold, T. J. Effect of retro-reflections on the air calibration of hydro transmissometers, 1976 June 16

Technical memorandum EN-004-76.

Box 29 Folder 49
Austin, R. W. Air-water radiance calibration factor, 1976

Technical memorandum ML-76-044t.

Box 29 Folder 50
Austin, R. W. , D. A. Kiefer, and W. H. Wilson. Ocean color and phytoplankton, ca. 1976
Box 29 Folder 51
Wilson, Wayne H. Color coordinate calculations and plotting, 1976

Memorandum UV-76-003t.

Box 29 Folder 52
Austin, R. W. Instrumentation for the measurement of the optical properties of the ocean, 1976

Includes abstract and introduction of the paper, as well as correspondence regarding its publication.

Box 29 Folder 53
Harris, James L. Angular distribution and transient response, 1977 August 4
Box 29 Folder 54
Austin, R. W. Review of Navy report by Quick Carlson on ocean visibility measurements, 1978 February 27
Box 29 Folder 55
A microprocessor controlled instrument for measuring the transmittance and reflectance of ocean waters - Manuscript draft and photographs, 1978
Box 29 Folder 56
Handbook of underwater optical measurements, ca. 1980
Box 29 Folder 57
Austin, R. W. Remote sensing of the diffuse attenuation coefficient of ocean water, 1981 April

Presented at 29th Symposium of the AGARD, Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Panel on Special Topics in Optical Propagation.

Box 29 Folder 58
Austin, R. W. and Benjamin McGlamery. Spatial characteristics of the diffuse attenuation coefficient of ocean surface water as derived from CZCS data, 1981 August

Presented at the Symposium on Radiation Transfer in the Oceans and Remote Sensing of Ocean Properties at IAMAP Third Scientific Assembly, Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany.

Box 29 Folder 59
Austin, R. W. Optical remote sensing of the ocean - Presentation for Optical Society of San Diego, 1981 October
Box 29 Folder 60
Petzold, T. J. Calibration report NORDA-RSI spectroradiometer, 1982 August

Technical memorandum EN-04-82t.

Box 29 Folder 61
Austin, R. W. and Petzold, T. Air-water radiance calibration factor - Gershun tube, 1982 September 23

Technical memorandum DL-82-005t.

Optical properties of ocean water - Research on K-values, irradiance, MER, etc. (see also PROJECTS, PROPOSALS AND CONTRACTS series, Navy subseries files from this time period), 1983-1990

Box 29 Folder 62
Petzold, T. J., Spectral water model for K, 1983
Box 29 Folder 63
Austin, R. W., et al. A technique for remote sensing atmospheric optical thickness when submerged, ca. 1983
Box 29 Folder 64
Austin, R. W. and Benjamin L. McGlamery. Passive remote sensing of ocean optical propagation parameters, 1983 May

Presentation for 32nd Symposium of the AGARD Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Panel on Propagation Factors Affecting Remote Sensing by Radio Waves, Oberammergau, West Germany.

Box 29 Folder 65
Ray trace programs, 1984-1989

Includes technical memorandum EN-011-84t, and data related to the lens programs.

Box 29 Folder 66
Hendershott, Myrl and R. W. Austin. Variability of ocean color in the California bight (proposal), 1984
Box 29 Folder 67
Austin, R. W. and T. J. Petzold. Spectral dependence of the diffuse attenuation coefficient of light in ocean waters, 1984
Box 30 Folder 1
Measured optical properties of ocean water: R/V Cape Hatteras, Boothbay Harbor, Maine to Bermuda and return, 1985 February 1

Technical memorandum EN-001-85t.

Box 30 Folder 2
Measured optical properties of ocean water: R/V De Steiguer, North Pacific and Bering Sea, 1985 July 10

Technical memorandum EN-009-85t.

Box 30 Folder 3
Voss, K. J. Calibration of gonio reflectometer reflectance measurements, 1985 August 20

Technical memorandum EN-11-85t.

Box 30 Folder 4
SLC De Steiguer cruise, STNs 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 16, and 18, ca. 1985
Box 30 Folder 5
Experimental results of a method to determine the spectral diffuse attenuation properties of seawater and the optical character of the atmosphere by measurement of the downwelling irradiance at two wavelengths - Report draft, ca. 1985
Box 30 Folder 6
Experimental evaluation of a method to determine the spectral diffuse attenuation properties of seawater and the attenuation of diffuse lights for a vertical path from outside the atmosphere to a depth below the surface, 1985
Box 31 Folder 1-2
Multichannel Environmental Radiometer (MER) technical memoranda, 1985-1988

Primarily by T. J. Petzold: EN-010-85t, EN-011-86t, EN-017-86t, EN-001-88t (Characterization of MER 1032). Includes references to data collected on the R/Vs Captain Hook and De Steiguer.

Box 31 Folder 3
Axford, R. A. Project Y ocean optics data quick look, 1986 May

Memorandum SER 844/43-86.

Box 31 Folder 4
Austin, R. W. Vis Lab water classification scale, 1986 May 27

Technical memorandum EN-005-86t. Describes scale devised to facilitate presentation and application of diffuse coefficient (K) data base.

Box 31 Folder 5
Measured optical properties of ocean water: USNS Lynch, Norwegian Sea, Barents Sea and Greenland Sea, 1986 September 25

Technical memorandum EN-015-86t.

Box 31 Folder 6
Blue leak in the MER radiance channel, 1986

Includes technical memorandum EN-019-86T and EN-021-86t.

Box 31 Folder 7
Petzold, T. J. et al. Seawater reflectance measurement memoranda, 1986-1987

Includes technical memos EN-017-86t, DL-006-86t, TPJ/RWA 86-05t.

Box 31 Folder 8
R/V Polarstern K-Value comparison, open water vs. hole in ice - Data, 1987
Box 31 Folder 9
Petzold, T. J. CZCS algorithm tests with MER data, 1988-1989

References SLC cruise data.

Box 31 Folder 10
Spectral K model test with MER data, 1989

Includes technical memoranda from Petzold to Austin, "Examination of the model for spectral dependence of the diffuse attenuation coefficient of light in ocean water using MER data" (89-05t and 89-06t). References SLC cruise data.

Box 31 Folder 11
K-Model revisit - T. J. Petzold memoranda, 1988-1990

Includes technical memorandum TJP/RWA 89-04t. References memoranda TJP/RWA 89-01t, -02t, and -03t. Analysis of Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS) algorithm using MER data.

Box 31 Folder 12
Petzold, T. J., et al. A method for obtaining analytical curve fits to underwater radiometric measurements, 1988, 1990

Technical memoranda (TJP/RWA 88-06t, OcOp/TJP/rwa-90-01t).

Box 31 Folder 13
Austin, R. W. Simulating sea-water optical properties in tanks, 1989 February 2

Technical memorandum OcOp-89t-rwa-001.

Box 31 Folder 14
Austin, R. W. and Theodore J. Petzold. Spectral dependence of the diffuse attenuation coefficient of light in ocean waters: A re-examination using new data - Drafts, 1990
Box 31 Folder 15
K Model revisit - SPIE presentation abstract, 1990
Box 31 Folder 16
Voss, Kenneth. Analytic approximations to the scattering phase functions, 1985

Technical memorandum EN-004-85t.

Box 31 Folder 17
Austin, R. W. Solar position information, 1985

Technical memorandum DL-003-85t.

Box 31 Folder 18
Austin, R. and K. Voss. Solar readings, 1986

Technical memoranda. Includes: HHCRM calibration of direct solar reading (EN-002-86t); ALSCAT "c" vs. VLST "c" vs. True "c": Part 1 (EN-006-86t); Ephemera program for HP 200/300 computers (EN-009-86t).

Box 31 Folder 19
Petzold, T. J. Effect of Fresnel reflectance on transmittance of light through manhole, 1986
Box 31 Folder 20
Austin, R. W., et al. An underwater laser scanning system. Paper for SPIE International Symposium on Optical and Optoelectronic Applied Science and Engineering, 1991

Paper and correspondence summarizing 1970s research Vis Lab completed for ONR on Time Varying Intensity (TVI) underwater laser scanners. See also PROJECTS, PROPOSALS AND CONTRACTS series, Office of Naval Research (ONR) subseries, CAT Project files.

Box 31 Folder 21
Austin, R. W. et al. An underwater laser scanning system, 1991
Box 31 Folder 22
Petzold, T. J. Scattering function model, 1991
Box 31 Folder 23
Petzold, T. J. Hand Held Contrast Reduction Meter (HHCRM) calibration, 1993
Box 31 Folder 24
Harris, James L. Edge detection, 2012-2013
Box 31 Folder 25
Austin, R.W. Factors affecting remotely sensed spectral radiance from the ocean - Abstract, undated
Box 31 Folder 26
Austin, R.W. Remote sensing - Visible region, undated
Box 31 Folder 27
Austin, Roswell. Reflections on energy consumption and resource scarcity, undated
Box 31 Folder 28
Duntley, S. Q. et al. A new method of determining atmospheric attenuation length, undated
Box 31 Folder 29
Duntley, S. Q. The optical properties of pigmented materials, undated
Box 31 Folder 30
Taylor, John H. Notes on aberrations of the eye, undated
Box 31 Folder 31
Transfer function for a diffraction limited optical system, undated

SUBJECT FILES

Scope and Content of Series

Series 8) SUBJECT FILES: A small series of miscellaneous files on a variety of subjects.

Box 31 Folder 32
Clark, Dennis - Spectroradiometer, 1989

Includes diagrams, notes and correspondence.

Box 31 Folder 33
CZCS data of Lake Michigan, 1983-1986

Prepared for C. Mortimer of University of Wisconsin.

Box 31 Folder 34
DEEP LOOK Project/AUTEC - Correspondence, 1971
Box 31 Folder 35-36
DUMAND, 1976-1982
Box 31 Folder 37
Edmund Scientific Co. catalogs and booklets, 1946-1966
Box 31 Folder 38
Gamma Scientific, Inc., ca. 1965
Box 31 Folder 39
Gonia photometric devices, 1945
Box 31 Folder 40
Image Processing short course (WINTEK), 1976

Includes papers by J. L. Harris on image processing.

Box 31 Folder 41
Multichannel Aircraft Radiometric System (MARS) spectral radiometer, 1987
Box 31 Folder 42
Munsell color scale, 1985
Box 31 Folder 43
Program for Advanced Study on Optical Signal Processing, Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory, 1971-1972

Includes Harris's Program lecture notes.

Box 31 Folder 44
NASA - E.G. & G. pre-proposal for Research in Atmospheric Effects on Remote Sensing - Review by S. Q. Duntley, 1969
Box 31 Folder 45
NASA - Scanning Imaging Spectroradiometer (SIS), 1973-1974
Box 31 Folder 46
NASA - SEASAT-A Ocean Dynamics Satellite, 1973

Includes memo and proposal from Walter Munk et. al.

Box 32 Folder 1
Optical antifoulants, 1986-1990
Box 32 Folder 2
Sealab II, ca. 1966
Box 32 Folder 3
Shimmer abstracts, 1960-1963
Box 32 Folder 4
SIO Satellite Oceanography Panel, 1976-1977
Box 32 Folder 5
Supersonics in industrial applications - Notes, 1947
Box 32 Folder 6
Terphenyl-benzene system research for Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier, 1950

UC Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.

Box 32 Folder 7
University of California Extension - Image processing course, 1967
Box 32 Folder 8-9
University of California Extension - Image manipulation and restoration courses, 1968-1970

Includes lecture content by Vis Lab personnel, including Harris, Preisendorfer, McGlamery.

Box 32 Folder 10
University of California, Santa Cruz - Seabird and mammal surveys utilizing CZCS data, 1981-1984
Box 32 Folder 11
University of Michigan - Portable Searchlight Program, 1954
Box 32 Folder 12
Vietnam - Meeting with Marine Corps, Camp Pendleton, 1967 August 3
Box 32 Folder 13
Vityaz - Russian hydro-optics research program, 1958-1961

Notes and materials collected by John E. Tyler on the Russian ship Vityaz during her stop in San Francisco, and from other briefings. Includes brochure with color cover featuring the ship from 1961 Soviet Industrial exhibition.

PHOTOGRAPHS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 9) PHOTOGRAPHS: The Visibility Laboratory maintained a negative archive of images documenting their projects and instruments. This series includes a small number of prints produced from the negatives, and nearly 1,000 negatives. Each negative was given a number, which was recorded in a variety of indices and logs (by number, by subject, by researcher, etc.). The indices have been digitized to facilitate searching by negative number.

Arranged in two subseries: A) Prints, and B) Negative Archive.

Prints

Box 32 Folder 14
Equipment and instruments, undated

Includes Diamond Island.

Box 32 Folder 15
People with equipment and instruments, undated

Includes Diamond Island.

Box 32 Folder 16
Visibility range meter, ca. 1950
Box 32 Folder 17
Meteorological range meter, ca. 1950-1953
Box 32 Folder 18
Photographs from Duntley's OSA presentation on "Refractive limitations on the resolving power in underwater photography", 1953
Box 32 Folder 19
Paolina-T off Coronado Islands - Small album, 1953 April 23
Box 32 Folder 20
Air Force bomber plane with instrumentation, 1955
Box 32 Folder 21
E.W. Scripps (ship), ca. 1955
Box 32 Folder 22
Tyler's water clarity meter, ca. 1959
Box 32 Folder 23
Exhibit layout on underwater visibility, 1967
Box 32 Folder 24-29
Copy prints of negatives from archive, with neg number on verso, 1955-1959, 1968

Negative Archive

Indices

Box 32 Folder 30
Index - Negatives not in the general negative file, 1955-1964
Box 32 Folder 31
Index - Confidential file, 1955-1964
Box 32 Folder 32
Index - Negatives associated with personnel, 1955-1964
Box 32 Folder 33
Index - Negatives by subject, 1955-1964
Box 32 Folder 34
Index - Negative log, 1955-1959
Box 32 Folder 35
Index - Negative log, 1960-1964
Box 32 Folder 36
Index - Negative log, 1965-1969
Box 32 Folder 37
Index - Negative log, 1970-1977
Box 32 Folder 38
Index - Visibility Laboratory negative file, 1955-1966
Box 32 Folder 39
Index - Visibility Laboratory slide and reprint file, 1955-1964

35mm negatives

Box 32 Folder 40
61-0047 to 62-0043 (incomplete)
Box 32 Folder 41
62-0004
Box 32 Folder 42
64-0004 to 64-0099 (incomplete)
Box 32 Folder 43
64-0050
Box 32 Folder 44
64-0075

Includes 70mm negatives of [UN] Rad camera in construction.

Box 32 Folder 45
65-0117 to 65-0120
Box 32 Folder 46
66-0015 to 66-0065 (incomplete)
Box 32 Folder 47
66-0052 (0-12)
Box 32 Folder 48
66-0052 (13-45) (incomplete)
Box 32 Folder 49
66-0052 (46-57)
Box 32 Folder 50
66-0054 to 66-0060 (incomplete)
Box 32 Folder 51
66-0061 to 66-0064-2
Box 32 Folder 52
66-0168 to 66-0173
Box 32 Folder 53
67-0040 and 67-0064
Box 32 Folder 54
69-0075 and 71-0002
Box 32 Folder 55
Rolls A-C
Box 32 Folder 56
75-0022 to 75-0024, 77-0007

4x5 negatives

Box 33 Folder 1
Negative # 55-0005 to 55-0323, undated, 1955
Box 33 Folder 2
Negative # 55-0324 to 56-0027, 1955-1956
Box 33 Folder 3
Negative # 56-0031 to 59-0047, 1956-1959
Box 33 Folder 4
Negative # 60-0001 to 62-0221, 1960-1962
Box 34 Folder 1
Negative # 62-0023 to 64-0074, 1962-1964
Box 34 Folder 2
Negative # 64-0075 to 66-0089, 1964-1966
Box 34 Folder 3
Negative # 66-0090 to 68-0165, 1966-1968
Box 34 Folder 4
Negative # 68-0166 to 77-0027, 1968-1977