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1978 ISP COMMISSION V INTER-CONGRESS SYMPOSIUM - STOCKHOLM SWEDEN
Monday, August 14 - The Opening Session 1
Torlegárd: (President of ISP Commission V)
Ladies and Gentlemen. Welcome to the International Society for Photogram-
metry, Commission V Symposium on Photogrammetry for Industry. Welcome to
the Royal Institute of Technology. Welcome to the Department of Photogram-
metry. Welcome to Stockholm. :
We are very happy that so many have accepted our invitation and come here.
When we planned this symposium we had the idea that it should be a forum
where photogrammetrists and their clients could meet to discuss, to ex-
change experiences, and to find new ways of using photogrammetry as a tool
for geometric measuring in industry. Here, in this hall, there are photo-
grammetrists, manufacturers of instruments and cameras, university and re-
search people, consultants, and producers of photogrammetric measurements.
But there are also here, people from industry, people who use the results
of the photogrammetric measurements. We also have here engineers and re-
searchers who can offer other tools than photogrammetry to solve the
measuring tasks in industry. It is my hope that we all, during this sym-
posium, will take an active part in the discussions in this room, talk to
each other in the exhibition rooms, and at other times when we have the
possibility of meeting, so as to broaden our knowledge and open new ways
to more dedicated measuring methods.
As there are several participants here who have not met the ISP before,
let me first give a brief presentation of the International Society for
Photogrammetry. The Society is organized in seven Technical Commissions.
There is one commission for Primary Data Acquisition, the second deals
with Instruments and Data Reduction, the third with the Mathematical Analy-
sis of Data, the fourth with Topographic and Cartographic Applications, the
fifth, Commission V, which is meeting here now, with Non-Topographic Appli-
cations, the sixth with Economics and the Professional, Educational and
Historical Aspects of Photogrammetry, and the seventh with the Interpretation
of Photogrammetric Data.
All of these Technical Commissions have Working Groups, and in Commission V
there are six Working Groups, one for the study of Analytical Systems and
Mathematical Methods for Close-Range Photogrammetry, the second for Appli-
cations and Cost-Effectiveness of Close-Range Photogrammetry, the third
for Non-Conventional Imaging Techniques, the fourth to establish an
effective system for the Exchange and Dissemination of Information in the
field of Close-Range Photogrammetry, the fifth for Industrial Applications,
and the sixth for Biostereometrics.
The work is organized in four-year periods with congresses every fourth
year, the same as the olympic games. In between are held Commission
Symposia. There are also Working Group Colloquiums which are held when-
ever the Working Groups find the opportunity to meet.
The International Society for Photogrammetry also has contact with other
International Associations, such as the Federation for Land Surveyors, the
International Cartographic Association, the Society for Photographic Instru-
mentation Engineers, the International Measuring Conference, and so on.
Let us then use this opportunity, now, to talk to each other and listen to
each other, to exchange information, and disseminate information.
Welcome to this symposium.
