Reprinted from 
PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING 
April 
1956 
COMMISSION V 
SPECIAL APPLICATIONS 
MEASUREMENTS 
EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS 
AND 
ExPOSITION or PHOTOGRAMMETRY 
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN 
Jury 17-26, 1956 
Introduction 
GOMER T. MCNEIL,* United States Reporter, Commission V 
1 1s believed that a greater utilization of photographic instrumentation will 
develop in proportion to the integration of metrics and scientific photogra- 
phy and the time required to make known the availability of such a system to 
organizations that will be most economically or professionally benefited.” The 
quotation was the concluding remark in this reporter's paper presented at the 
Seventh International Congress and Exposition of Photogrammetry at Wash- 
ington, D. C., September, 1952. The definition of photographic instrumentation 
has been defined by Shaftan as: “The use of the photosensitive medium for the 
detection, recording and/or measurement of scientific and engineering phe- 
nomena.’ 
Armed with this concept as an initial approach, contact has been made 
with scientific, technical, and administrative personnel representing a diversified 
field of special applications and measurements. The diversification is of such a 
wide range that only two of the ten authors contributing to this report are 
members of the American Society of Photogrammetry. 
One of the most effective means of selling photogrammetry on a solid and 
permanent basis is through scientists and engineers inasmuch as scientists and 
engineers are the next potential users. The science of photogrammetry will 
mature comprehensively only after it serves a professional or economic need. 
First; the scientists and engineers must be introduced to the science and art of 
photogrammetry. Second; methods, techniques, and instrumentation must be 
made available that are compatible with accuracy, cost, and operational re- 
quirements. This evolution will come to pass through word and example, how- 
ever the process will be accelerated through example. 
Fully realizing that prognostications are always dangerous, it is predicted, 
nevertheless, that the national gross product in the United States of spe- 
cialized applications and measurements will exceed that of aerial topographic 
mapping within the next generation. 
Short biographical sketches of the authors of the Commission V Report for 
the United States are presented as introductory material and to demonstrate 
President, Photogrammetry, Inc., Silver Spring, Maryland. 
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