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HACKEN: 
I would like to say a few words here to make clear that the 
subject of information retrieval is alive. As you probably know, it has 
been announced in Kyoto, the efforts of the chairman of the WG, which 
started in 1982, to create an own database for Photogrammetru and RS 
remains without any success. Last year ! was supposed to cooperate in 
that field but early this year I was told by the chairman that the idea 
of creating a database had been dropped and that the emphasis would be 
given to cooperation between host and database suppliers. I was then 
requested to prepare figures about the use of on-line retrieval and to 
say something about the experience of on-line retrieval here in Rhodes. 
Yet I was surprised to find that there was no session on on-line 
retrieval in the programme and that the chairman has not been here. At 
the same time I have prepared a review of databases in the field of 
aerospace. You can have copies if you are interested and your comments 
are welcome. Further, l inform you that in the Netherlands there a 
database is developing on geoingormation systems. Finally i want to 
mention that since I am the Netherlands secretary of the WG of on-line 
users in Earth Sciences, l could help the exchange of information 
between the Netherlands and ISPRS. 
KONECNV: 
It is not true to say taht the topic is dead. Obviously the 
topic is not dead. It is a personality clash between those who would 
like to establish a database that somebody pays for but that nobody has 
money for, and it is only under those circumstances that this part of 
the WS is interested in contributing. And the other is to use existing 
systems to push them through. That of course is a commercial 
database. So it's an ideological discrepancy. The topic deserves specific 
attention in Com VI. 
TORLEGARD: 
I would like to make a comment on information retrieval. 
This activity is really important in particular when we realise more 
and more the speed of the technical development. We should perhaps