Clyde Holliday, an instrument specialist at APL, well understood the importance of the photos for the study of Earth.
Holliday wrote in a Nat Geo article in 1950 - "Results of these tests now are pointing to a time when cameras may be mounted on guided missiles for scouting enemy territory in war, mapping inaccessible regions of the earth in peacetime, and even photographing cloud formations, storm fronts, and overcast areas over an entire continent in a few hours."
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/the-first-photo-from-space-13721411/
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