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PHOTOGRAMMETRIC EDUCATION - 
EXPERIENCES IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY SETTING 
BY 
COLONEL M.M. DATTA 
SURVEY OF INDIA, HYDERABAD 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 
Colonel M.M* Datta is the Senior Director of the 
Centre for Survey Training and Map Production, Survey 
of India, Hyderabad and Vice-Chairman of I.3*P* 
Working Group Vl/I . Colonel Datta completed hie • 
M.Sc. Ph.E. from the ITC, the Netherlands in 1961* On 
his return to India he was engaged in developing the 
photogrammetrie education and productive services in 
India for several years till 1967. He also assisted 
the ITC Netherlands experts in Earth Sciences in 
establishing Indian photo-interpretation Institute, 
Dehra Dun during 1965- f 68. He has published several 
technical papers in Photogrammetry in Indian professional 
journals. He attended I.S.P. Congresses and Inter-Congress 
Symposium in 1960, 1970, and 1976. 
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The use of Photogrammetry in its simplest form was 
introduced in India in 1919-20 soon after the First 
World War. However, the use of stereo-restitution 
photogrammetrie instruments were introduced in India 
from 1954. This called for more intensive and well- 
coordinated photogrammetric educational programue, and 
international assistance was needed in the beginning. 
After a decade of photogrammetric practice, a 
clear picture of photogrammetric educational requirement 
emerged which identified three levels of photogrammetric