about 2,500 people (1.67% of the total manpower in photogram-
metry and remote sensing of 150,000 people) with total annual
R & D expenditures of at least US $35 million (excluding clas-
sified, strictly military R & D efforts). It is obvious that
the evaluation of the present efforts and future requirements
as to R & D in photogrammetry and remote sensing, world-wide,
must be one of the important tasks of ISPRS WG VI-1.
This particularly applies to developing countries with largely
unsufficient photogrammetry and remote sensing R & D manpowers
and expenditures.
There is a large amount of information contained in Laval
University's Surveying & Mapping Data Bank on the present day's
R & D efforts in photogrammetry and remote sensing and it is
hoped that in the near future more specific figures can be
communicated on the world's present photogrammetry and remote
sensing R & D manpower, available equipment and annual expendi-
tures.
AN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTATION CENTER ON SURVEYING & MAPPING
(S & M), INCLUDING PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING
As already reported in Ref.'s 4 and 5, there exists a volumin-
ous S & M Data Bank at Laval University (Unit: Photogrammetry)
which data bank includes much information also on the world's
photogrammetry and remote sensing operation. Such information
is of considerable usefulness for the performance of work
pertinent to ISPRS WG VI-1, especially as far as professional
statistics are concerned. Among other items, the Data Bank
contains about 100,000 addresses of organizations and key
persons involved in S & M (including photogrammetry and remote
sensing). This data bank is as far as possible up-dated and
includes also information on available manpower, as well as
education and research facilities in photogrammetry and remote
sensing. This information is being used to complete the infor-
mation obtained from the regional sub-working groups of ISPRS
WG-1.
Here, it should be added that a portion of the information
contained in the data bank was and is provided by official and
completed United Nations and FAO questionnaires to pertinent
organizations. Access to this particular information to ISPRS
WG-1 is assured due to the fact that the author of this paper
is the consultant in charge of the United Nations for the
analysis of the status of world cartography as well as an FAO
consultant for the establishment of a world aerial photographic
index.
It is evident that the large amount of information contained
in Laval University's S & M Data Bank should be made available
to all persons and organizations interested in such information
(including persons and organizations particularly interested
in photogrammetry and remote sensing).
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