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Captions
South Tarawa, Kiribati, is a narrow strip of land between the lagoon and the ocean.
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Camera manufacturer
NIKON CORPORATION
Camera model
NIKON D200
Copyright holder
Commonwealth of Australia
Exposure time
1/320 sec (0.003125)
F Number
f/9
ISO speed rating
250
Date and time of data generation
16:17, 31 October 2005
Lens focal length
26 mm
Image title
Caption: The central pacific island of Tarawa in Kiribati.Mid Caption: The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has deployed a small Joint Task Force to the small Pacific Island nation of Kiribati to commence Operation Kiribati Assist.Operation Kiribati Assist is the ADF contribution to Australia’s response to a request from the Government of Kiribati to assist in the disposal of World War II unexploded ordnance (UXO) from locations throughout Kiribati.The ADF has world-class skills, expertise and capability in conducting explosive ordnance disposal and is happy to be assisting our regional neighbour in clearing the threat posed by unexploded ordnance.Joint Task Force (JTF) 637 will dispose of UXO identified during a 2007 reconnaissance of the islands and scope any future UXO disposal requirements and EOD training opportunities for the Kiribati Police Service during the deployment.The JTF comprises approximately 22 people and includes a Command Group, a Royal Australian Navy Clearance Diving Team to handle underwater UXO, Army and RAAF EOD teams who will handle land based UXO, including air delivered items and a Medical Team.The 33 islands of Kiribati are scattered across 3.5 million square kilometres of the Central Pacific and is the site where the Battle of Tarawa was fought in November 20th, 1943. Most UXO encountered in Kiribati are remnants from this conflict and include military ordnance such as artillery projectiles, aerial bombs, rockets, mortars and mines.
Orientation
Normal
Horizontal resolution
300 dpi
Vertical resolution
300 dpi
Software used
Adobe Photoshop CS Windows
File change date and time
15:37, 21 November 2008
White point chromaticity
0.313
0.329
Chromaticities of primarities
0.64
0.33
0.21
0.71
0.15
0.06
Color space transformation matrix coefficients
0.299
0.587
0.114
Y and C positioning
Co-sited
Exposure Program
Normal program
Exif version
2.21
Date and time of digitizing
16:17, 31 October 2005
Meaning of each component
Y
Cb
Cr
does not exist
Image compression mode
4
APEX exposure bias
0
Maximum land aperture
4 APEX (f/4)
Metering mode
Pattern
Light source
Fine weather
Flash
Flash did not fire
DateTime subseconds
00
DateTimeOriginal subseconds
00
DateTimeDigitized subseconds
00
Supported Flashpix version
1
Color space
Uncalibrated
Sensing method
One-chip color area sensor
File source
Digital still camera
Scene type
A directly photographed image
Custom image processing
Normal process
Exposure mode
Auto exposure
White balance
Manual white balance
Digital zoom ratio
1
Focal length in 35 mm film
39 mm
Scene capture type
Standard
Scene control
None
Contrast
Normal
Saturation
High saturation
Sharpness
Hard
Subject distance range
Unknown
GPS tag version
2.2.0.0
Image width
3,000 px
Image height
1,569 px
Supported Flashpix version
1
Special instructions
Cleared for Release by: LCDR Etienne MulderCleared for transmition by:
Original transmission location code
www.defence.gov.au
Headline
Operation Kiribati Assist 2008 - Collection and Identification
