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INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING 
Commission VI ; 
Symposium held in Mainz, FR Germany, 22-25 September 1982 
POSSIBILITIES T O OVERCOME THE D I F- 
FICUL TIES TO WRITE AND TO USE NAT I- 
ONAL REPORTS OF THRE ISPRS CONGRESSES 
Helmut Kantelhardt 
Secretary, Commission VI 
Landesvermessungsamt, Wiesbaden, FR Germany 
ABSTRACT 
It is very difficult to write National Reports at ISPRS Congresses for there are 
no rules to do so but it is also difficult to use them for every writer reports 
about different things and this in different orders. Therefore in the interest 
of all - writers and readers of National Reports - special forms for the National 
Reports are suggested. 
1. Preliminary Remarks 
Normally, the member countries of ISPRS deliver National Reports to the ISP Con- 
gresses. It seems to me a difficult task to write a National Report for there 
are no rules and no concept to do so. Therefore every writer reports about a great 
lot of things, which seems very important to him and because everybody of us has 
other main interesting fields, the National Reports are quite different of each 
other. That causes great difficulties for every reader of the National Reports. 
Nobody knows at which point of the various National Reports of the countries he 
must look for a special interesting field. Therefore, a great lot of colleagues 
mean, National Reports are not used and this seems to me a bad complement to the 
writers of National Reports with their hard work of collecting the material. 
  
2. Possibilities for Change 
There are different possibilities to change this bad circumstances: 
2.1 We can fix guidelines and everybody will find under a special number the same 
interesting field in every National Report of the various countries. The dif- 
ficulty of this proceeding will be that you have to read the whole part in 
order to get the information you look for. 
2.2 We fix special forms for the different interesting fields of our National 
Reports. This will be a strong guideline for all writers of National Reports 
but a comprehensive list for a reader to look at his interesting fields. 
2.3 We join the two possibilities above with eachother. Every writer of Na- 
tional Reports may add special remarks to the forms. 
The last possibility seems to me to be the best one: Every writer of National 
Reports has a strong guideline for his task and also the possibility to add his 
own remarks.to special problems. The reader in hurry may only look at the spe- 
cial forms and the other one may read the more extensive remarks. The special 
forms should be classified like the Commissions of ISPRS for the National Re- 
ports will be normally given by the National Correspondents of each country. An 
example of such special forms is appended to this paper. 
  
3. Final Remarks 
If we do not succeed in creating rules for National Reports I think it will be 
better to abandon National Reports for it isa hard work to write them and they 
must be worthwhile to be read. 
  
Bibliographic quotation : 
Kantelhardt, H. : Possibilities to overcome the difficulties to write and to use 
National Reports of the ISPRS Congresses. In: Int. Archive of Photo- 
grammetry, 24 -VI, pp 147 - 148, Mainz 1982