Bill: Thank you for your post. You are exactly right. Two weeks ago we ordered contact prints and dupe negs from the original 9X9" aerial frames. The best flight line was one flowin in 1994 rather than the 1999 line which is shown on the Terraserver site now. With the 1999 flight somebody in the lab overdeveloped the film that produced a detail-less shadow area. How do I know?
Before my college degree in photography, I spent 3000 hours flying flight lines for the U.S.Navy, attached to patrol squadron 28 (VP-28,& VU-1) but my real boss was the Fleet Intelligence Center, Honolulu and Special Weapons Employment Group - Pacific (nuclear weapons)"SWEGPAC". Your advice is sound, accurate, and appreciated. "Bo"