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This paper includes 3 related presentations on United State lunar mapping made to the International symposium ‘A Hundred Years of Lunar Mapping’ at Athens, Greece in May 1978. It reviews Project Apollo's role as both stimulas to and beneficiary of lunar mapping. Lunar cartographic technology and products employed and produced by the U.S. Defense Mapping Agency and its predecessor organizations, are discussed.
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Clair, J.H.S., Carder, R.W. & Schimerman, L.A. United States lunar mapping — a basis for and result of project apollo. The Moon and the Planets 20, 127–148 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00898062
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00898062