PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING IN THE ROMANIAN SPECIALIZED 
TECHNICAL DICTIONARIES 
Eng. Mihail Albotä 
Institutul de Geodezie,Fotogrammetrie,Cartografie 
si Organizarea Teritoriului 
79662, Bd. Expozitiei nr. 1 A, sector 1, Bucuregti 
Romania 
Commission VI 
ABSTRACT: Several technical dictionaries containing geodetic- 
topographic, photogrammetric-remote sensing, cartographic-map- 
ping, and cadastral terms have been developed by teams of spe- 
cialists, in Romania. These bilingusel, multilingual, and exple&- 
natory dictionary outlooks and developments, as well as, the 
way in which photogrammetry and remote sensing are illustrated 
in them, are presented in this paper. 
The first attempt to prepare and print a specialized technical 
dictionary in Romania - just a success of those old times - 
has occured in 1942, when professor doctor engineer Gheorghe V. 
Nicolau-B$rlad published 'Dictionar tehnic pentru fotogramme- 
trie, topografie gi cadastru" (The Technical Dictionary for 
Photogrammetry, Topography and Cadastre). The dictionary was a 
multilingual one (in German, Romanian, French and Italian lan- 
guages) and contained 2916 photogrammetric, topographic, geode- 
tic, astronomic, cadastre, and cartographic terms as the author 
- a Romanian remarkable personality in photogrammetry - had men- 
tioned. 
This dictionary was published both as a paper in certain issues 
of the "Buletin de Fotogrammetrie, Cadastru gi Agrimensura" (The 
Bulletin of Photogrammetry and Cadastre) and an extract. The au- 
thor's intention to further publish an alphabetical index for 
each language of the dictionary has not been brought to an end. 
During 1976-1987, bodies of specialists have edited six bilingu- 
al, multilingual and explanatory dictionaries containing techni- 
cal terms in various branches, such as: geodetic astronomy, ca- 
dastre, mathematical cartography, photogrammetry, photointerpre- 
tation, geodesy, geodetic gravimetry, map compilation and edi- 
ting, remote sensing and topography. These dictionaries can be 
mentioned chronologically as follows: 
1. "Dictionar poliglot de geodezie, fotogrammetrie si cartogra- 
fie" (The Multilingual Dictionary of Geodesy, Photogramme try 
and Cartography). Authors: Mihail Albotá, Dimitrie Filotti, Oc- 
tavian Molea and Ioan Salariu. This dictionary was published 
in 1976, in five languäges (English, Romanian, German, French 
and Russian). It will be further mentioned as M (multilingual). 
2, "Dictionar de geodezie, fotogrammetrie-teledetectie si car 
tografie englez-romän" (The English-Romanian Dictionary of Geo- 
desy, Photogrammetry-Remote Sensing and Cartography). Authors 
Wihail Albotä, Nicolae Zegheru and Paraschiva Suroiu, This bi- 
lingual dictionary was published in 1980. It will be further 
mentioned as ER (Enghlish-Romanian). 
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