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(c) Post-graduates: They are very few and function in the immediately
lower level, i.e. that of the production engineer. They are normally
under senior self-trained professionals, due to the time-of-service
dominated epetiris, or the owner of a private firm. At best they func
tion as ad\ isors of the higher level. The lack of competent post
graduates at proper posts is filled by university staff members, who
are invited to act as consultants.
The above described situation is strongly related to the hellenic
education system, which is described in the following paragraph.
5. THE HELLENIC EDUCATION SYSTEM IN RESPECT TO PHOTOGRAMMETRY
AND REMOTE SENSING
There is nothing like a formal course of study to produce quali
fied technicians. Although the Technological Institutes are comparatively
well equipped in photogrammetric instruments, their graduates ’’Surveyors"
are oriented to land surveying applications. As stated above, operators are
being trained by the individual public sector organizations.
Photogrammetric needs are rather limited in this country to jus
tify the existence of a university level course leading to a degree in pho
togrammetric engineering. The most explicit courses are belonging to the
curricula of the Schools of Rural and Surveying Engineering (Technical
Universities of Athens and Thessaloniki). Graduated Rural and Surveying
Engineers are "passive" photogrammetrists, having the potential to become
"active" (Fig. 5.1) ("active" and "passive" in the context given by Adamec
and Ellis (1980) and Adamec( 1984)).
Photogrammetric courses offered to undergraduate Rural and Sur
veying Engineers contain some 80 hours of theory and 80-110 hours of
practice for the whole of their study, distributed in three semesters
(Rokos, 1984). Students have the opportunity to work on instruments some
10-20 hours per year in average. This figure is reduced if they do not
take the third course, which is for both universities selective. Compared to
the corresponding figures given for European Universities, which also pro
duce "passive" photogrammetrists (Erez, 1980) the amount of instruction
time is at the lowest margin, while the offered subjects are more (f.e.
orthophotography, aerial triangulation and non-conventional photogram—
metry).