In+ersec+ion for Spatial People

Smart Planet reports that:

The [U.S.] National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is attempting to determine the most “effective and efficient options” to digitize “large volumes of high resolution photographic imagery”

This imagery is satellite based and was captured on film then released to Earth as little care packages.

From the article: "Satellites with earth-facing cameras have been around for many decades, and were orbiting well before digital photography came of age. Before the digital transmission of photos was an option, spy satellites–like the KH-1/2/3/4 “Corona” or KH-6 “Lanyard” satellites–were returning high quality photos to US intelligence services by physically dropping
exposed film back to earth."