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DELEGATES MEETINGS 
The inventory of natural resources is a complex operation involving different types 
and phases of photogram metric mapping and interpretation, and its accomplishment 
represents an enormous financial and technical effort for the Governments or 
Agencies which undertake it. 
There is at present no Commission in the ISP to deal in the experience gained in 
the process of taking inventories of natural resources as a whole. 
The necessity and advantages of sharing the experience in this field are evident; it 
is obvious too, that these discussions will not refer to the actual details of photo- 
grammetric procedures, already covered by specific commissions of the ISP, but to 
the planning and executive organisation of the operations, and to the co-ordination 
of different methods in order to obtain the most efficient and economic scheme. 
Therefore: 
The Delegation of Chile requests the Council of the ISP that, at the next meeting 
of Delegates, the formation of a joint working group composed of some members of 
Commissions III, IV and VII be discussed, in order that there may be systematic 
investigation and discussion of the experiences gained in integrated photogrammetric 
inventories of natural resources. 
We hope that this working group will be able to compile and bring to the attention 
of the X Congress of Photogrammetry a great amount of valuable information and 
experience, that will help in the future to find the optimum scheme of integrated 
photogrammetric operations for the inventory of natural resources. 
The President said that, with the permission of the Chilian delegate, he would 
point out that, as it was not likely to be possible to bring this matter to a satis 
factory conclusion at the present meeting, the suggestion could best be remitted to 
the new Presidents of the commissions mentioned (who would be assuming office 
that afternoon after the Closing Assembly) for such joint action as they might feel 
able to take. This might lead to some action on the Chilian recommendation, which 
might otherwise fall by the wayside. 
Mr Jurlow agreed with what the President had said. He would however like 
to remark that there had been several experiences brought to the attention of this 
Congress, for instance, the Surinahm Plan, the Pakistan Survey, especially also Profes 
sor Schermerhorn’s paper on Modern Planning in Photogrammetry. He thought that 
none of the existing Commissions was able to discuss this type of information as a 
whole, that was, as an integrated project. The Chilian delegation thought it really 
important to have conclusions and recommendations for the future in this sense, 
which was the very essence of this motion. If it were the opinion of the Board that 
it had best be referred to the Presidents of Commissions, he had no objection and 
would withdraw the motion. However, his delegation would strongly urge that such 
a working group should be established because of the great amount of valuable in 
formation which really had not been discussed and could not be discussed in the 
existing Commissions. 
It was agreed that this proposal should be remitted to the incoming Presidents 
of Commissions. 
The Secretary-General said there was one other proposal submitted by the 
Canadian Delegation. It was in regard to the National Reports. He had hoped to be 
able to see the Delegate from Canada before this Meeting to ask him if he would 
agree to this motion being referred for further study during this intervening period, 
because, as he, the Canadian delegate, would appreciate, it is very controversial. The 
Council had already discussed it and considered, amongst other things, that the 
Statutes Committee would be considering this very point. He would therefore like 
to suggest to the Canadian Delegate that he should agree to this motion being referred 
for consideration during the intervening four-year period by the Statutes Committee. 
The President said that, before the Canadian Delegate spoke, the meeting