The history of the development of the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, as seen by the first Director General of CCRS. An excerpt from "Remote Sensing Then And Now" by L.W. Morley, published in 1993.

• Early Beginnings 1960-66
• Leap Into Space
• The Program Planning Office (1969-71)
• The Prince Albert Satellite Station
• The DSS Unsolicited Proposal Fund
• Sensor Development
• Photo Reproduction and Data Dissemination
• The Strange Beginnings of RESORS
• Final Cabinet Approval for Establishing the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
• The Provincial Remote Sensing Centres
• Tape Format and Software Development
• Applications
• International Relations
• The Airborne Operation
• The SAR 580 Remote Sensing Aircraft
• Early Developments in Commercial Remote Sensing
• The CCRS Applications Division
• Remote Sensing in the Colleges and Universities
• Cost/Benefit Analysis, Systems Studies and Technology Assessments
• SEASAT and SURSAT (1978)
• RADARSAT
• The Development of Digital Image Analysis in Canada

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