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By Ryan LaFontaine, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 14--HANCOCK COUNTY, Miss. -- A new technical center at Stennis International Airport, which will combine federal and corporate experts in hydrographic mapping, opened Friday.

The Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise -- JALBTCX for the short-winded -- will provide airborne coastal surveying capabilities to the Army and Navy at a much faster pace than the old methods of mapping, which were done from a vessel moving across the ocean surface at a very slow pace.

Airborne hydrographic surveying will give the U.S. military a ...

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