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Approved For Retebd Calo AN SS LEAEB)-00788R001800210001-0 Appendix A (U) REMOTE SENSING EVALUATION A. (U) Introduction (U) Analysis of RV (remote viewing) sessions can be divided into two areas of interest: (1) when complete information of the target site is available, and (2) when little or no information about the site is available. For the purpose of RV training, it is advantageous to know the target site in detail, while in the operational environment, little or nothing is known. This appendix focuses its attention upon the training environment, but provides guidelines for the operational cases as well. B. (U) Target Definition (U) To have a statistically meaningful RV analysis it is necessary to begin with a rigorously defined set of targets. The targets being used in the current RV training program consist of photographs from the National Geographic magazine. While such photographs may contain many complex target elements, we have, for the purposes of training, isolated a set of 20 specific target elements (see Table A-1). By definition for this analysis the target information is completely specified by the presence or absence of each of the target elements. By considering each target element present as a binary "1" and each element absent a binary "0" it is possible to construct a 20-bit (one for each target element) binary number that rep- resents the pertinent target information for each photograph. Cc. (U) RV Response Definition (U) The output from an RV training session consists of a few words and some rough sketches. To facilitate statistical analysis, it is necessary to define in some systematic manner precisely what constitutes the response. We use the same element list (Table A-1) described above. 47 UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2002/05/17 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001800210001-0