VIIIth International Congress of Photogrammetry: General reports

Fagerholm, P. O.; Lycken, L. E.; Thunberg, A.; Öhlin, K. A.

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Persistent identifier:: 1048861678

Title:: VIIIth International Congress of Photogrammetry

Sub title:: Stockholm, Sweden, July 17 - 26, 1956

Year of publication:: 1957

Place of publication:: Stockholm

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Identifier (digital):: 1048861678

Language:: English

Other Title:: Paralleltitel: VIIIe Congrès International de Photogrammétrie

Editor:: Fagerholm, P. O.

Corporations:: International Congress of Photogrammetry, 8., 1956, Stockholm; Board of the VIIIth International Congress of Photogrammetry

Adapter:: International Congress of Photogrammetry, 8., 1956, Stockholm; Board of the VIIIth International Congress of Photogrammetry

Founder of work:: International Congress of Photogrammetry, 8., 1956, Stockholm; Board of the VIIIth International Congress of Photogrammetry

Other corporate:: International Congress of Photogrammetry, 8., 1956, Stockholm; Board of the VIIIth International Congress of Photogrammetry

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Persistent identifier:: 1048997715

Title:: General reports

Sub title:: VIIIe Congrès International de Photogrammétrie

Scope:: circa 330 Seiten in verschiedenen Seitenzählungen

Year of publication:: 1957

Place of publication:: Stockholm

Publisher of the original:: [Verlag nicht ermittelbar]

Identifier (digital):: 1048997715

Illustration:: Illustrationen

Signature of the source:: ZS 312(12,3)

Language:: French

Other Title:: Paralleltitel: Rapports généraux

Usage licence:: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Contributor:: Lycken, L. E.; Thunberg, A.; Öhlin, K. A.

Editor:: Fagerholm, P. O.

Corporations:: International Congress of Photogrammetry, 8., 1956, Stockholm; Board of the VIIIth International Congress of Photogrammetry

Adapter:: International Congress of Photogrammetry, 8., 1956, Stockholm; Board of the VIIIth International Congress of Photogrammetry

Founder of work:: International Congress of Photogrammetry, 8., 1956, Stockholm; Board of the VIIIth International Congress of Photogrammetry

Other corporate:: International Congress of Photogrammetry, 8., 1956, Stockholm; Board of the VIIIth International Congress of Photogrammetry

Publisher of the digital copy:: Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover

Place of publication of the digital copy:: Hannover

Year of publication of the original:: 2019

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Collection:: Earth sciences

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Title:: REPORT OF COMMISSION VII PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION to the INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN JULY, 1956

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Title:: REPORT OF COMMISSION VII NATURAL RESOURCES GEOLOGY

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GVII-56 PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEERING “Summary “Military photo interpretation found its form during the second World War, which it has maintained since then. “Changes have occurred mainly in the form of improved equipment (optics, cameras, film, stereoscopes, et ah). “It would seem, however, that photo intelligence already—or soon—-will be ac corded a still greater importance since warfare, threatened with atomic weapons, is on the eve of great changes. The most decisive factors can be summarized as follows. 1. The number of intelligence photos will be far greater, making a correspondingly great demand on the photo interpretation capacity. 2. The enemy camouflage technique, developed to counteract photo reconnaissance, makes the discovery of targets slower and more difficult—-although field-forti fications, erected against the risk of atomic attack, may not be as well camou flaged as others, owing to insufficiency of time. 3. The demand for speedy results is accentuated in atomic warfare, where it can be a question of utilizing a favorable occasion for one’s own atomic weapons or to hinder the enemy from using his. 4. It is of supreme importance to exploit entirely the results of the interpretation in order to ascertain enemy tactics without delay, since they are of vital interest. 5. A great amount of interpretation material will cause difficulties in procuring a sufficient number of qualified interpreters. The military objectives multiply and become more and more difficult to discover. The demand for specialists on cer tain types of interpretation targets will probably increase. “Without a doubt the future will hold a number of tasks of the traditional kind where the demand for speed of interpretation and number of photographs will not be as overwhelming as has been outlined here. Perhaps these traditional tasks will be the most common ones. “The above mentioned points do not, taken each by itself, give one reason for hold ing any other view as to the future direction of military photo interpretation. Taken all together, however, they tend to give the impression that, in a future war, a greater task may be imposed on photo interpretation than can well be managed, unless it is given facilities on a much broader basis. “Therefore, it would seem reasonable to take into consideration the demands of the In view of the rapid expansion in photographic interpretation applications which is indicated in this report, and the probability of equally rapid advances in the period to come, any attempts to predict the future in any detail are con sidered to be impractical and probably misleading. It is further believed that the members of the varied professions which utilize photographic interpretation are much better qualified to predict its future employment in their field of inter est than are the compilers of this report. It is suggested, however, that perhaps the most significant indication of future development in photographic interpretation is found in the increasing acceptance of the photograph as the planning base for many of the present day engineering, scientific and social problems. This is heralded in the vital part played by photographs and mosaics in the large land-use and urban planning projects. Present day scientific planning, with respect to the earth’s surface, requires the observation and correlation of a vast amount of detailed informa tion in many fields. Photography which records, clearly and objectively, all of the visible detail in an area, which is susceptible to an endless variety of uses as a field map, as an interpretation source, as an annotation base, and which can be used in every form from individual prints to controlled mosaics, is gain ing recognition as the most practical base for such planning.

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