Full text: Proceedings (Part 1)

Jahr reisten mehr als eine Million Menschen 
über den Hafen Helsinkis, während fast drei Mil- 
lionen Fluggäste über den Flughafen fuhren. Vor 
einigen Tagen, als ich um die Mittagszeit die 
Esplanade entlang spazierte, fiel es mir auf, dass 
Passanten fast alle anderen Sprachen als Finnisch 
sprachen. 
Die letzten Jahre haben deutlich gezeigt, dass 
gerade die Finlandia-Halle das Tagungs- und 
Kongresszentrum unserer Stadt ist. Helsinki hat 
zum grossen Teil der Finlandia-Halle zu verdan- 
ken, dass es eine starke Position als internatio- 
nale Kongress-Stadt bekommen hat. Im Jahre 
1975 wurden in diesem Gebäude insgesamt 120 
Konferenzen und Kongresse veranstaltet. Die 
Gesamtzahl der Kongresstage erhöhte sich auf 
250 und ausserdem wurden im Gebäude 150 
Konzerte gegeben. Die Zahl der Besucher im vo- 
rigen Jahr war 367000. 
Ich wünsche dem dreizehnten Kongress der In- 
ternationalen Gesellschaft für Photogrammetrie 
einen erfolgreichen Verlauf. Ich hoffe, dass Sie 
sich in Helsinki wohl fühlen werden und dass 
Ihnen die Atmosphäre der Stadt, ihr pulsierendes 
Leben und ihr Treiben gefallen werden. Ich hoffe 
auch, dass Sie in reichem Masse berufliche Er- 
fahrungen von Ihrer Kongressreise mitbringen 
und unsere Stadt in angenehmer Erinnerung be- 
halten werden. 
Translation: 
Mr. Minister, Distinguished Congressists, Ladies 
and Gentlemen. 
In the name of the City of Helsinki | have the 
honor to wish you all welcome to Helsinki and 
to the Finlandia Hall. Human interaction, tourism, 
conventions and congresses form the network 
of contacts that is the basis for trusting and 
friendly relations between the inhabitants of dif- 
ferent countries and states. The meeting in Hel- 
sinki of thousands of scientists and profession- 
als, representing all the member countries of the 
International Society for Photogrammetry at this 
Congress, in a remarkable way brings together 
professional theory and know-how and offers at 
the same time an opportunity for strengthening 
the ties between the peoples of the world and 
promoting their mutual understanding and peace- 
ful coexistence. 
This great aim also complies with the active peace 
policy of Finland. This past summer Helsinki 
had the honor to host an event at which this 
peace policy was made manifest, i.e., the last 
stage of the Conference on Security and Co- 
operation in Europe. | can assure you that we 
felt we were serving a most important cause in 
receiving the leading statesmen of the world 
here in Finlandia Hall. 
In recent years Helsinki has developed into a 
convention and congress center. The city has 
become an international meeting point, a ground 
for people from east and west, from north and 
south, on which to meet and discuss their com- 
mon problems. Meanwhile Helsinki has attracted 
increasing numbers of tourists. Last year more 
than a million people travelled via the ports of 
Helsinki, while close to three million flight pas- 
sengers passed through its airports. A few days 
ago, as | walked along the Esplanade at noon, it 
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occurred to me that passers-by spoke almost all 
languages other than Finnish. 
These past few years it is Finlandia Hall that has 
proved to be the convention and congress center 
of our city. Helsinki owes to a great extent to 
Finlandia Hall its well established position as an 
international congress city. In 1975 in all 120 
conferences and congresses were held in this 
building. The total number of congress days 
mounts up to 250, in addition to which 150 con- 
certs were given in this building. The number of 
visitors in the previous years was 367000. 
| wish success to the Thirteenth Congress of the 
International Society for Photogrammetry. | hope 
that you will enjoy your stay in Helsinki and that 
the atmosphere of the city, its hustle and bustle 
will appeal to you. | also hope that your partici- 
pation in the Congress will bring you a wealth of 
professional experience and that you will take 
with you a pleasant memory of our city. 
Next the Congress Director called upon the host 
of the congress site, the Rector of the Helsinki 
University of Technology, Dr. Pentti Laasonen. 
Rector Pentti Laasonen: 
Your Excellency, Distinguished Delegates, La- 
dies and Gentlemen. 
Now that | have the opportunity to present the 
address of the Helsinki University of Technology 
to the International Congress for Photogrammetry 
being opened, my attention is drawn to the rapidly 
growing importance and the constantly extending 
field of activities of photogrammetry as one of 
the spheres of training and research in our Uni- 
versity. Our University has had its Chair of Pho- 
togrammetry for only nineteen years, and by last 
spring it had been occupied by only one profes- 
sor, the late Professor Halonen who so suddenly 
passed away last summer. Thus it is all the more 
remarkable that this Chair has gained the firm 
and esteemed position generally acknowledged 
in the course of years. 
Those working in the directorate of our University 
have, with great interest, observed how the meth- 
ods developed by our Institute of Photogram- 
metry, adjusted to our resources, have found 
their way to practical surveying. As early as twelve 
years ago we acquired a precision stereocom- 
parator which was effectively used from the start 
— first to meet the needs of our own country, 
and shortly thereafter also to serve the developing 
countries in the Near East and Africa. 
We have been satisfied also to find that certain 
ideas of our research workers — for example in 
the field of analytical photogrammetry — when 
developed into serviceable methods, have been 
internationally adopted and have in this way con- 
tinued the tradition begun half a century ago by 
the ingenious soldier and scientist General Ne- 
nonen. 
We are naturally delighted about the fact that 
photogrammetry, which originally served mainly 
the needs of map production and, perhaps in 
particular, of military security, is now radically 
expanding its sphere of application. In addition 
to various measurements of technical engineer- 
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