experience as the coordinator of IUFRO Division 4, I know very
well that your Subject Group and also ISP are not only extremely
active units but also very successful ones. Therefore, I am sure
that the meeting at Freiburg will contribute again a lot to the
further development of forestry and land use management. Many
research workers in forestry are looking forward to learn from
you new results and better tools for improvement in forestry
and land use management.
Besides your professional work during the sessions, I hope you
will have some time to get acquainted with the nice old town of
Freiburg which has a very old forestry tradition and also with
the environments. All the best for your meeting, thank you very
much.
PROF.R.C.HELLER; CHAIRMAN OF SUBJECT GROUP REMOTE SENSING, IUFRO:
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is a pleasure for me to be here and I am sure for all of the
foresters and IUFRO participants to take advantage of the en-
vironments of Freiburg. On behalf of IUFRO Subject Group 6.05,
Remote Sensing: Willkommen, bienvenido, bienvenu and welcome.
As I mentioned, IUFRO is made up primarily of foresters. So
what is IUFRO doing here with ISP? I think, as Dr.Speidel has
mentioned, we hope to gain much by this international exchange.
As you may see in your program, we have combined IUFRO papers
and ISP papers into one group. There is no separation of IUFRO
and ISP during this meeting. We thought this would be more
desirable.
Now I would like to spend a few minutes describing something
about IUFRO. So just bear with me a moment. How is IUFRO organized?
There are six divisions dealing entirely with different subject
matters. This will be shown in your schedule, so I will not go
into detail (see also page iv). Remote Sensing falls under
Division 6 "the general subjects". The coordinator of IUFRO
Division 6, Director Jean Pardé will be here on Friday to talk
to you also. Within the general subjects we have several permanent
Subject Groups such as statistical methods and biometry, infor-
mation systems, training and research works and also the remote
sensing group. There are three of us serving on this Remote
Sensing Subject Group, Myself, Prof.Dr.Hildebrandt and Prof.
Stellingwerf and you will notice that we are also engaged in
ISP. In the same way there are several chairmen of ISP Working
of Project Groups being member of the IUFRO Subject Group as
f.e. besides Prof.Dr.Hildebrandt and myself, Prof.Murtha and
Dr.Sayn-Wittgenstein, Dr.Kenneweg and Dr.Singh. So that there
is much interfacing of the disciplines of forestry and ISP. Well
this is how IUFRO happens to be federating these sessions with
ISP.
IUFRO will have an International Congress as ISP do but ours
occurs every five years instead of four years. The last IUFRO
World Congress was in Oslo 1976 and I would encourage any of you
who would like to go to Asia, to Tokyo in 1981. You may have an
opportunity to travel to Tokyo. Thank you.