THE SLOVENIAN NATIONAL REPORT 
ON PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING 
Janez Oven, MSc 
Adviser for the Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia 
Commission VI 
KEY WORDS: National report, photogrammetry, remote sensing, Slovenia 
ABSTRACT: 
The Slovenian national report presents the relevant institutions and the current situation in the field of photogrammetry 
and remote sensing in the country. It describes government and education institutions, institutes and firms, their 
research and projects. The paper also presents the current situation within the education sector as well as the post 
graduate studies. Plans for the future are also mentioned. 
1. ORGANIZATION 
In Slovenia the following institutions and firms represent 
and serve the photogrammetry and remote sensing 
industry: 
Government institutions: Surveying and Mapping 
Authority of the Republic of Slovenia, Office for Statistics 
of the Republic of Slovenia. 
Education institutions: the University of Ljubljana - the 
Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering is the head of 
the photogrammetry and remote sensing education; the 
Biotechnical Faculty - the Department of Forestry, and the 
Faculty of Arts - the Department for Archeology. 
Institutes: Institute for Surveying and Photogrammetry at 
the Faculty of Civili and Geodetic Engineering, the 
Slovenian Forestry Institute and the Center for Scientific 
Research of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts 
Firms: Institute for Geodesy of the Republic of Slovenia 
and the company Monolit. 
The Association of Slovenian Surveyors which included a 
section on photogrammetry and remote sensing was 
established but it has not been active for the last four 
years. 
In Slovenia there are two million inhabitants, and in the 
field of photogrammetry and remote sensing only 45 
people are actively employed, so specialization in only 
one subject is not possible. 
2. PHOTOGRAMMETRY 
2.1 Education 
Study courses in the field of photogrammetry and remote 
sensing are organized at the University of Ljubljana at the 
Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering - Department 
of Photogrammetry and Cartography. The present 
department has two full-time employees, a professor of 
cartography and a photogrammetric assistant. 
International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Vol. XXXI, Part B6. Vienna 1996 
The course also offers a cooperation between other 
professors and assistants who have contracts with the 
University of Ljubljana. Most photogrammetric lectures 
are conducted by a professor from the University of 
Zagreb whereas lectures in remote sensing are held by a 
senior lecturer from the Center for Scientific Research of 
the Slovenian Academy of Science. Some lectures are 
also given by retired professors. Students undertake 
practical work with the help of three assistants and a 
laboratory technician. 
The B.Sc. course program consists of Photogrammetry |, 
Photogrammetry || and Numerical Photogrammetry. For 
the remote sensing program, the course consists of 
Remote sensing and Photointerpretation. The 
photogrammetry and remote sensing course runs for a 
total of 330 hours. In any one year there are 1-2 B. Sc. 
thesis (in photogrammetry and remote sensing) which 
represents 10-15% of completed thesis per year. 
For the Post Graduate Course in photogrammetry, an 
individual course program is implemented. 
Test equipment available to students: stereocomparator 
Dicometer connected to a PC and some old fashion 
analog machines. Software: Orient, Scop and in-house 
written software. For linking photogrammetry with GIS, 
students have Arc/info, MGE and ldrisi software 
packages. In 1996 a VSD Digital photogrammetric 
package from Krakow was purchased. 
At the Biotechnical Faculty - the Forestry department 
provides a course for the collecting, analysis and 
presentation of data acquired from photogrammetric 
images and remote sensing images. During the official 
study time required, students have 90 hours of lectures 
and practical sessions. They use the software and 
equipment from the Slovenian Forestry Institute. Post 
graduate studies linked to forestry and photogrammetry 
have their own specialized program. 
Thirty hours of lectures are also held at the Department of 
archeology. Students are informed on the possibility of 
using photogrammetric and remote sensing images. They 
use nonmetric cameras and they also have a special 
support for taking vertical pictures of archeological 
excavations. 
  
      
  
  
  
   
   
  
  
   
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   
  
   
  
   
  
   
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
   
  
  
   
   
    
  
    
  
  
  
     
  
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