Aerial Reconnaissance in the Alberta Rocky Mountains During the 1920s 73Western Geogr phy, 7(1997), pp. 73–96 © Western Division, Canadian Association of Geographers Those Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines: Aerial Reconnaissance in the Alberta Roc
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The early history of aviation in Southern Alberta is high-lighted by the activities of No. 2 (Operations) Squadron of the Canadian Air Force. The Alberta air station was originally established in the Bow River valley near Morely, Alberta, in 1920. A more suitable site was found, in 1921, outside of High River. During the next decade, aviators from the High River air station pioneered the operational use of aircraft in western Canada. While the original purpose of the air station was to act as a base for forest fire patrols, High River aviators soon found them-selves occupied with tasks varying from aerial photo-graphic surveys of Alberta and Saskatchewan, to civil operations for the Department of Agriculture. The High River Air Station was to remain in operation until March 31, 1931, when air operations were suspended at the re-quest of the Premier of Alberta. Following this the High River air station became a storage place for aircraft until the Second World War, when it was resurrected as an Elementary Flying Training School. The most enduring legacy of the High River air station are the thousands of aerial photographs taken between 1923–1927. These im-ages retain an imprint of settlement and landscape pat-terns allowing for a unique perspective of conditions in western Canada at the beginning of the century. 74 Smith
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".