Eyes on Earth Episode 93 – EROS 50th: Film Scanning
Evolved from discarded parts, Phoenix scanners digitize the vast film archive at EROS to make it available worldwide.
Working with film has always been part of EROS’ 50-year history. How did EROS end up with an extensive film archive, and how are we making that data available to users? In this episode, we talk about the custom scanners built in-house from discarded parts to digitally capture historical aerial photos and declassified spy satellite images. These Phoenix systems have scanned millions of images and still have a lot of work to do.
Guests: Tim Smith and Mike Austad (contractors for USGS EROS)
Host: Tom Adamson (contractor for USGS EROS)
Producer: Tom Adamson (contractor for USGS EROS)
Release date: Monday, April 3, 2023
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A film scanning workstation at EROS
This is a film scanning workstation at the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center for archiving aerial and declassified imagery.
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Evolved from discarded parts, Phoenix scanners digitize the vast film archive at EROS to make it available worldwide.
Working with film has always been part of EROS’ 50-year history. How did EROS end up with an extensive film archive, and how are we making that data available to users? In this episode, we talk about the custom scanners built in-house from discarded parts to digitally capture historical aerial photos and declassified spy satellite images. These Phoenix systems have scanned millions of images and still have a lot of work to do.
Guests: Tim Smith and Mike Austad (contractors for USGS EROS)
Host: Tom Adamson (contractor for USGS EROS)
Producer: Tom Adamson (contractor for USGS EROS)
Release date: Monday, April 3, 2023
Download and Transcript Access
Related Episodes
-
-
Eyes on Earth Episode 79 – Landsat Global Archive Consolidation
The Landsat archive at EROS contains an unparalleled 50 years of Earth observation data. But with earlier technologies, some Landsat scenes were collected and stored only by international ground receiving stations rather than in the central archive at EROS.
-
Eyes on Earth Episode 5 – Declassified Data at EROS
There’s a lot more than Landsat in the EROS Archive. In this episode of Eyes on Earth, we hear from a professor who’s mined satellite data collected during once-classified military missions to peer into the history of land use in Eastern Europe during the height of the Cold War.
-
Eyes on Earth Episode 1 - Intro to EROS
A rundown of the history of the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, the Landsat program, and the Center's role in the observation and study of landscape change worldwide.
-
Related Image
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A film scanning workstation at EROS
This is a film scanning workstation at the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center for archiving aerial and declassified imagery.
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