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Inter-Services Topographic Department : ウィキペディア英語版 | Inter-Services Topographic Department The Inter-Services Topographic Department (1940–1946) was a joint British Army and Navy organization created during World War II that was responsible for supplying topographic intelligence for all combined operations, and in particular, for preparing reports in advance of military operations overseas. This is an intelligence unit administered by the Royal Navy. Dr. Diamond Jenness was formerly chief of the Division of Anthropology of the National Museum of Canada and during the war headed the Inter-Service Topographical Section of the Department of National Defence. In 1949 he retired from government service. ==Origin== The Interservices Topographical Department (ISTD) came out of the near-fiasco of the British invasion of Norway (April 9 - May 9, 1940). Prior to that time, the Army and Royal Navy had different intelligence units that were independent of each other. The ISTD was established at Manchester College, Oxford. Working together with members of each arm and the Allies, this unit was able to bring together zero-elevation aerial photography, which is phototgraphy taken as close to the wave tops as possible, in order to bring the views of the beach landscape, which were then made into continuous horizontal strip photographs. These files were marked with military targets such as bridges, marshalling yards and the like, and up-to-date photos and intelligence were used to up date obsolete maps. From these new maps, and from older maps, magazine illustrations, and old family photographs taken on holiday collected from the public, new maps could be produced for the planning staffs and operations forces.〔Wilson, Leonard S. 1946. "Some Observations on Wartime Geography in England." ''Geographical Review''. Volume 36, 1946. pp. 601–602.〕
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