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The Professional Activities Committee developed a program for the 
certification of photogrametrists. The program is equally applicable 
to qualified persons in the fields of metric photogrammetry, remote 
sensing and photo-interpretation, and is open to members and non- 
members alike. The Society has noted with satisfaction the growth 
and maturing of remote sensing over the four years since the Ottawa 
Congress. Nevertheless this growth has presented problems of many 
overlapping and sometimes conflicting meetings, duplication of 
publieations, and efforts to establish separate national and inter- 
national remote sensing societies. The Society has a long-standing 
position that remote sensing is in most instances a part of photo- 
grammetry. In order to emphasize this position the Society in 
January 1975 changed the name of its official journal from 
Photogrammetric Engineering to Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote 
Sensing. This move properly reflects the interests and scope of the 
Society and also provides a continuing reference of professional 
stature for reporting scientific and technical activity in remote 
sensing. Furthermore the Board of Direction has presented to the 
ISP Congress in Helsinki a resolution recommending the adoption of 
a definition of photogrammetry which properly includes remote 
sensing and photointerpretation. 
  
  
The Society co-sponsored (with the American Congress on Surveying 
and Mapping, and the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers) 
the XIVth Congress of the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG). 
The Society also co-sponsored (with the U.S. Geological Survey and 
the American Mining Congress) the First William T. Pecora Memorial 
Symposium at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in October 1975. The 
symposium featured Applications of Remote Sensing to Mineral and 
Fuel Exploration. 
The Society joined with other government and professional organizations 
in the United States, Canada, and Mexico to form the North American 
Institute for Modern Land Data Systems (MOLDS). In April 1975, the 
Institute sponsored a special symposium in Washington, D.C. on 
The Modernization of Land Data Systems - À Multipurpose Approach.* 
  
  
A resolution drafted by the Committee on Standards established the 
Society's position on the use of metric (SI) units. 
The Nomenclature Committee revised the terms and definitions associated 
with photogrammetry and related fields. The Education Committee 
prepared a review of institutions giving degrees and courses in photo- 
grammetry, photo-interpretation and remote sensing.