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A method of utilizing electronic data-processing techniques for the reduction of airborne terrestrial-radiation measurements is presented. The instrumentation used by the Aerial Radiological Measuring Survey (ARMS-II) was developed by Edgerton, Germeshausen & Grier, Inc. (EG & G), under sponsorship of the Division of Biology and Medicine, Civil Effects Test Operations, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Systematic surveys of terrestrial radiation occurring over large land areas are performed throughout the United States by EG & G personnel. A nominal-sized area entails some 10,000 traverse miles of flying with an acquisition of nearly 100,000 data points. As a consequence, manual reduction and presentation of the raw data are highly impractical. For rapid reduction and early availability of the data, it is necessary that modern electronic techniques be adapted to the processing of ARMS-II data.