PHOTOGRAMMETRY IN THE NETHERLANDS 
1952-1956 
BY W.SCHERMERHORN, DELFT, THE NETHERLANDS 
INTRODUCTION. 
The series of National Reports gives a reliable and complete description of 
the development of photogrammetry and its application to national problems in each 
country. Each report is a continuation of the previous report and therefore the reader 
should realize that proper understanding of each report is only possible by comparing 
it with those published in earlier volumes of the International Archives. This applies 
especially in our case as I am now writing my fifth National Report in succession: 
1934, 1938, 1948, 1952 and now 1956. We shall stress mainly the changes in the 
situation and discuss a few of the points which refer to recent developments. We shall 
therefore not discuss in detail, but merely mention the activities which during the 
past four years have been similar to those described in the preceding reports. 
The map-producing organizations in the Netherlands are: 
a. The Survey Department of the Ministry of Transport and Waterstaat, Delft 
(Chief ir. A. J. v. d. Weele). 
b. The Topographic Service of the Ministry of Defense, Delft (Director 
J. H. Bramlage). 
c. K.L.M. Aerocarto Ltd., Schiphol and Delft (Director Th. J. de Bruyn). 
d. Topographie Service of the N.V. Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij 
(B.P.M.) Royal Dutch Shell Group (Chief S. Herschdorfer). 
Scientific and educational organizations dealing with photogrammetry are: 
l. Geodetic Institute of the Technological University at Delft (Director Prof. 
R. Roelofs). 
International Training Centre for Aerial Survey at Delft. 
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Geodetic Institute of the Agricultural University at Wageningen (Director 
Prof. A. Kruidhof). 
The activity of the Military Topographic Service is still the same: production 
of military and general topographic maps of the Netherlands, except that now this 
service is also in charge of the production of a 1: 100.000 map of Dutch New 
Guinea in cooperation with the organizations mentioned under b. and c. 
The Survey Department of the Ministry of Transport and Waterstaat produces 
maps needed by the technical services belonging to this Ministry. An activity of 
which the importance has increased is its photogrammetric mapping work carried 
out for the Re-allotment Service. Moreover, the flood disaster of 1953 and the