This is the story of a spy, a spy who was inside the CIA for a whole different purpose. She wasnt there for supportig any certain group of people or their agendas. She was working for our planet, for the well being of all of us.
Linda Zall is not a name not much of us are familiar with. If you google her wikipedia will provide you with the information that she is an environmental scientist.
Her contributions towards science aren't listed anywhere, there is only this source which shows just three papers as her research works.
But there is lot more story behind that she hasnt said anywhere. Recently The New York Times published an article, which shed some light towards the reality.
Now she's 70, she retired from CIA in 2013, even now there is limit to the information she could share to the outside world. She loved what he did, that was kind of visible in her words. She mentioned her job as a fun thing to do, which ended for the favour of our planet.
Using the spy satelite for collecting information about enironmental changes and the threats that will come against the whole world dont may seem a fun thing to do for the outside world. There is several discoveries she made through the journey, which includes top secrets which hasnt even revealed to the world yet.
The MEDEA Program, in which Zall was part of came up with lot of data which became a standard for the new measurment of global change. Still that data is being used to calculations and analysation of the changes in the environment.
Without her all these discoveries would have been impossible, all of her colleagues and the superiors of her admits that.
CIA use these low altitudes polar orbit satelites as they could cover the entire surface of earth, as it is rotating below. The images of these Antartic regions were the less used ones from huge set of data the satelite covers.
But these informations are a big favour for the environmenalists, cause these poles are the places which starts to melt first. To research on Global Warming there is nothing that could be better than this.
D. James Baker, who directed the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from 1993 to 2001 and served on Dr. Zall’s C.I.A. advisory panel quoted this,
“It gave us the first real measurements of the ice budget — how much loss you have from season to season."