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INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAMMETRY
TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
LISBON, PORTUGAL
Plotting, Theory and Instruments
The General Report of Commission II
albert l. nowicki, President
Chester e. kowalczyk, Secretary
john h. Wickham, tr., U. S. Reporter
Introduction
T he General Report of Commission II, International Society for Photogrammetry, for the
period 1960 to 1964 is based on information gathered in a questionnaire sent to all National
Societies. The questionnaire concerned itself with data defining the type of organization re
porting; activities carried out, when established and number of personnel involved; types of
equipment utilized for compilation and aerial triangulation; scales of map products; other
uses of equipment than mapping; use of automatic plotting and orthophotoscope type of
equipment; use of comparators, coordinate readers and/or auxiliary equipment; types of
cameras; possible use of infrared, radar and color photography; use of Airborne Profile Re
corder (APR) data, Shoran-type photography, Shoran-type trilatération, Statoscope equip
ment; reseau grids; use of film or glass plate photography; and data on new instruments and
techniques perfected or used since 1960.
Questionnaires were sent to each National Reporter (or National Society Office) of 42
member countries of ISP. Each reporter, in turn, was asked to send copies to those organiza
tions within his respective country concerned with photogrammetric effort. Of 42 countries
represented, 17 turned in replies. For example, in the United States, of 277 questionnaires dis
tributed, a total of 78 were returned with data; in Australia 22 replies were received, in Japan
19 replies were received; and in West Germany 21 replies were received. Besides the 78 replies
received from the United States an additional 109 were received from 16 other countries. These
latter included Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Finland, France, Germany (Democratic
Republic), Germany (West), Holland, India, Japan, Malaya, Morocco, Norway, South Africa
and Switzerland.
Photogrammetry and Aerial Photography Products and Uses
The questionnaires have revealed that photogrammetry and aerial photography have been
used in connection with the following:
1. Planimetric, mosaic, topographic, geologic, forestry, cadastral, soils, terrestrial, recon
naissance, aeronautical, aeromagnetic, military and hydrographic map and chart compilation
and revision work.
2. Instruction and training of Civil Engineering, Surveying, Geology, Geography, Mining,
Forestry and Photogeology students.
3. Development and manufacture of equipment and cameras.
4. Photointerpretation, aerial triangulation, analytical bridging, radial template bridging,
and numerical triangulation.
5. Plans and studies concerning agriculture, water supply, hydroelectric power, soil classi
fication, vegetation, flood control, mosquito breeding ground, rural improvement, high tension
lines, navigable waterways, route surveys, monument and battlefield sites, historical temples,
hydraulic models, wave movement, animal body configuration, city planning, highway and
railroad locations, profiles and cross-sections, perspective picture compilations, cloud positions
released by rockets, comparison of reduced and actual models, architecture, research and ex
periments, coordinate cadastral measurements, resources, terrain profiles, stereo vision tests,
land consolidation, glaciology, tropical rain forests, placer and coal mining, area compilation,