Newsletter: 3rd Quarter 2008
The Explorers Club Washington Group had the summer off to explore and has started the fall speakers and dinner programs held at The Cosmos Club.
The Explorers Club Washington Group had the summer off to explore and has started the fall speakers and dinner programs held at The Cosmos Club. Our September speaker was Curt Westergard whose lecture was entitled, “Site Planning at 1376 feet, use of surveillance aerostats to explore views from proposed skyscrapers.” Curt specializes in documenting the visual impact of and the views from planned tall structures like skyscrapers, high-rise buildings, cell towers, power lines and bridge towers. These views not only improve site planning by identifying the most efficient floor plan layout, but also produce impressive panoramas generating excitement for the projects and marketing campaigns. His tethered balloons, with various payloads of cameras, are also used for homeland security border surveillance. …