Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 3, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free Priess thursday May 3, 1973 Eye in sky scans Manitoba for data govt. Opposes trans air cutback by Esther Tennenhouse free press stiff writer once a Day a United states National aeronautics and space administration Nasa satellite passes Over Manitoba to see what it can see. April 25, it passed Over Winnipeg on its routine Polar orbit Over York factory. Five Hundred nautical Miles above the City its scanners re corded the sights below. In eight Days every eight Days it again and again Cov ered almost every Square mile o Manitoba and transmitted a report to a Remote sensing receiving station in Prince Albert sask. The result Aerial photographs with a god s Eye View revealing facts both visible Anc invisible to the naked Eye. In Manitoba Aerial Survey can be used to look at canker worm infestation in the win Jii Peg area to watch flooding at Southern Indian Lake and to Monitor Lake Winnipeg for pol Lution. Remote sensing Survey in new. It merely Means looking at things from a distance. By Survey by satellite began ii Canada Only in july 1972, and is a revolutionary step in environmental or. Jean thie chairman of Manitoba Remote sensing committee sail in an interview. It is a tool which can help governments make resource decisions and May offer Canad savings and benefits of up t million a year i planners know Little about in dynamics of the environment especially the ecology of in North said or. Thie who former head of the forestry Sec Tion provincial department mines and resources and graduate of the International Institute of Aerial Survey an Earth science Delft the Neth now he said satellite Dat can give observers information on any area every 18 Days 2 times a year year after year. Now we can for the firs Lime detect change not on Man made change but in do stand natural already Colo girls engineers mining companies and govern input officials arc waiting t study the flow of pictures Ana 1 y z e d in Manitoba s Romot sensing interpretation Centre i Winnipeg. They Are looking of gravel pits studying pollution or trying to decide where t Plant wild Rice dig a mine build a Road. Surveys of cropland Are c peeled to teach a geologists to to predict crop yield with the next 10 years but mor Likely within or. The predicted. In Manitoba Remote so Nisi Survey is done both Wilh Jet using radar Cuni Penl Ai with the satellite which Lak its imagery using both Infra a and visible Light Waves. Us scanners react to Facto such As temperature Nio Stu and geological make up d pending on what wave Leng they Are set for. So the satellite known erts Earth resources Tec ology satellite has a Fot Channel scanner. Two Are s for visible wave lengths two for Infra red lengths. The result is four photos of e same area All different often data in one complement Ata in another. Working by and with computers and her equipment interpreters by to discover just what these fee fences and similarities can. The satellite belongs to the United states but Canada has be of it at Little or no Cost or. Lie said. V the same Day it passes Over Hin Peg Montreal and Cyl knife it circles the world ree times. Satellite systems clearly per lit one country to Survey any hers and this raises the Issue 1 sovereignty. Although Canada and the . Ave receiving stations to re Vive the satellite s signals the Pace Craft s observations Dur Jig its travels outside the . Run t lost they Are tape recorded on its route and will e carried Home. However politics Aren t at Ssue in the Case of this Satel the its diary is probably being ept for reference by any country that wishes to use it in. Thie suggested. Nevertheless when Canada decided to Hook in to the sat elite it was partly in an Effort to know at least As much or More than the ." about Ca Adian territory. Remote sensing really ust a tool could have a huge Impact on the use of Canada s resources particularly the North the 29-year-old ecologis1 Aid. Development of the surveys vill make it possible to have a formation at the fingertips o the decision and or. Thie believes that icon la have the Correct inti mation they will tend to do Thi or rect supporters of Remote sensing that at a conservative is Imatz based on evaluations narc in the ., potential Ben of Remote sensing in Cana a could be million to million a year within five to 1 or. Thie said that it we had i r o p c r staffing and spen on Remote sensing sur by Manitoba could go Worth of savings am in fits this fiscal year on Arious kinds of studies. These would include resource surveys Irma Frost mapping Road Loca Ion studies and surveys relat no to the Lake Winnipeg Chur chill and Nelson River schemes. Right now or. Thie is Lookin for Down to Earth application if the satellite information t yield Short term benefits. These t s hoped induce the Fedora government to support Centre such As Manitoba s. He leave Manitoba next month to Wor Iveth the Canada Remote sen ing Centre in Ottawa where h ill head a committee on us icy uses. Possibilities for the use of n Mote sensing Survey run the Gamut of ecology. In Hie past year Manitoba Hydro used airborne Survey Analyse permafrost at a Sites at Limestone rapids. It thought permafrost Mappin could be used profitably to or pare Northern pipeline route for instance in the Mackenzy Kiver Delta. Closer to Home the province has already used an ail borne vegetation Survey in making its decision to locate a waterfowl Sanctuary at Oak Hammock Man. Tree disease surveys by Satel Lite showed that the airborne could provide data for a Spray ing program for canker worm in the Winnipeg area. The Centre has been asked to help in surveys of Mosquito grounds algae Dis Ihu Tion and Bedrock analysis to name just a few. Private Imp Anies expressing interest using Remote sensing include d Hudson Bay exploration and develop mint company Ltd. And it emotional Nickel company Canada. The Centre s emphasis this ear will be on the North or. Hie said. A proposal is being prepared or a Quick satellite inventory f the More isolated areas of o r t h e r n Manitoba. Current maps Tell Little about land orms animal habitat possible Oad locations forests and in act about 70 per cent of the province. The proposed Survey would Ake a few interpreters about to years. Or. Thie said he particularly Lopes to to Able to Monitor Southern Indian Lake during lie next few years to see if eco logical changes due to proposed flooding can be predicted and Maly cd. On important possible application of Remote sensing is pol ution Survey Jet borne Infra cd scanners can pick up of Luence in the water and show there and How it is spreading although it cannot identify or measure the material. Lake Winnipeg will be one of the lakes monitored Lor tur Limity. People have never been Able o study a big body of water Ike the prospers fur re note sensing Survey Are unquestionably exciting or. Thie Aid. And Manitoba has been one if the first provinces to show Nilia Tive in developing Remote sensing she remains in the forefront in Canada in this experimental Field or. Hie said. To Date about 110 provincial and Federal government re source people and University staff have decided to learn to use the new Survey techniques now available. The new Remote sensing Centre at 1007 Century Street St. Janics Assiniboia will store All airborne and satellite imag Ery in Manitoba and help users with Survey interpretation and the use of Stereoscope color equipment and other interpretation equipment. The Century Street Centre is administered by tiie provincial department of mines natural resources and environmental management and is directed by the Manitoba Remote sensing committee. The Ottawa Centre is administered by the Federal department of the environment. T h e Manitoba government has asked the National air transport committee to make trans air limited live up to its responsibilities As a regional air Carrier in return for the benefits it receives. Industry minister Leonard Evans presenting a submission to the committee at a hearing in Brandon said the airline should not be allowed to abandon its Winnipeg Dauphin York ton run and in fact should be made to upgrade the service to the Point where it will attract passengers rather than discourage them. The granting of routes such As the two Winnipeg Toronto licences to trans air have obviously been granted for reasons other than providing Competition to the National Carrier. These routes it would appear were granted to the regional carriers in order to enlarge their base of operation they can maintain and improve service to smaller communities in the Southern part of their Region and to the isolated and developing communities in the today or. Evans said trans air the regional Carrier designated to supplement the service of air Canada and up air in the Prairies and Northwestern Ontario has suspended All scheduled operations in Alberta and Saskatchewan operates two flights daily to Toronto and is applying to get rid of the last Prairie air service it acquired from the mainline carriers. Or. Evans said trans air got these services from the mainline carriers in a 19g3 Deal which gave the Manitoba airline a Viscount aircraft and two dc-35 for operating the services for a three year period. Nine months later he said trans air was Able to divest itself of the contractual for the Hegina Swift current Medicine hat and Calgary run and in 1966, it received a Federal subsidy to continue operating the remainder of the Prairie services. In 1967, trans air applied for a subsidy to run a Prairie service with three discounts but the air transport Board rejected the service As being too extravagant. Or. Evans noted that in its annual report that year the company president said the management and Board of directors believe that these communities should have regularly scheduled airline service and further believe that the routes in question have Long Range importance to the or. Evans said by the end of 1970, trans air s two flights daily to Toronto were confirmed after a review of the adequacy of the trans air during this period trans air decreased the frequency of service provided on its newly acquired Winnipeg Stegina and Winnipeg Saskatoon non Stop authority from a daily flight to one flight each week in each direction. The traffic carried by trans air Between Winnipeg Stegina and Saskatoon did not increase As dramatically As did the heavily advertised air services Between Winnipeg and Toronto. 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