XVIIIth Congress: Commission VI

Kraus, Karl; Waldhäusl, Peter

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Title:: XVIIIth Congress

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Year of publication:: 1996

Place of publication:: Vienna

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Editor:: Kraus, Karl; Waldhäusl, Peter

Corporations:: International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Congress, 18., 1996, Wien; International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

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Title:: Commission VI

Scope:: 149, 110, 92 Seiten

Year of publication:: 1996

Place of publication:: Vienna

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Additional Notes:: Die Vorlage enthält insgesamt 3 Werke: Commission VI (Seiten 1-149); National reports (Seiten 1-110); Special sessions (Seiten 1-92)

Other Title:: Enthaltendes Werk: National Reports; Enthaltendes Werk: Special sessions

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Editor:: Kraus, Karl; Waldhäusl, Peter

Corporations:: International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Congress, 18., 1996, Wien; International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing; International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Commission Economic, Professional, and Educational Aspects of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Adapter:: International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Congress, 18., 1996, Wien; International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing; International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Commission Economic, Professional, and Educational Aspects of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Founder of work:: International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Congress, 18., 1996, Wien; International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing; International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Commission Economic, Professional, and Educational Aspects of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Other corporate:: International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Congress, 18., 1996, Wien; International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing; International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Commission Economic, Professional, and Educational Aspects of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

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Title:: WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF OUR PROFESSION? Hans-Peter Bähr [...] Commission VI, Invited Paper

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"intelligent" products, which give alternatives or suggestions for decisions. Are we sure to be able to meet the demands of the future market? Competitors from other disciplines like Computer Science are already strong and will be stronger in the future. This applies dramatically for companies which produced pho- togrammetric hardware components in the past. As a result from fast growing population and fast growing technology, a series of problems in the political and socio- economic domain will increase: Pollution of man s environ- ment does already exceed the acceptable standards in many regions. Ethnic conflicts and migration of people are indica- tors of a changing world. A key concept is "globalisation". In the future, even today, an event is globally noticed and very quickly may have global impact. This relates to all mentioned fields, like growing pop- ulation, growing technology, growing pollution and growing social conflicts. 3 "OUR PROFESSION"- WHAT DOES IT STAND FOR? 3.1 About the name If we simply take the name of our society, our profession could be called " Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing". This is, of course, not consistent, as " Remote Sensing" was added in the seventies to the traditional, internationally recognized greek term "Photogrammetry". Thus, a wider range of activities covered by our professional field was marked. This happened in most countries, but not in all. In the seventies, a wide, controversial discussion developed whether it would be wise to "just add on" the new concept of "Remote Sensing", to leave "Photogrammetry" as it had always been or to take even just " Remote Sensing" instead of " Photogrammetry". It is interesting to remember the discussion now as we are again in a similar situation: " Digital image processing" on one side and " Geoinformation Systems" on the other are examples for fast developing fields - outside of ”Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing"!- which possibly requires modification of our name. | shall not discuss here whether the proposal from Wuhan/China to take ”Iconic Informatics” (Deren Li,1992) or ”Geomatics” form Quebec/Canada would be good alter- natives. By the way, Kraus mentions that "Photo" refers to "photones" and, consequently may be used for both photo- graphic and non-photographic imagery. Anyhow, the present discussion reflects a changing techin- cal environment for our profession. As experienced twenty years ago, a change of name would have to go together with changing concepts instead of a "just add-on" procedure. 3.2 About the nature of ” Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing” Where is our profession located in Science? Depending on the view, it has strong relation to Natural Sciences Engineering Sciences Political Sciences Taking e.g. sensor development, it starts with basic Physics. Turning the sensor operational is an engineering task, and employing the sensor in a real application like mapping or 14 monitoring of the environment, involves many socio-economic features which we may assign to " Political Sciences". It has to be pointed out here, that the nature of the three fields differs significantly: Natural Sciences: search for " truth" Engineering Sciences: solving technical problems Political Sciences: solving socio-economic problems (Bähr, 1995a) Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing will mostly be related to Engineering Sciences and the limits to Natural Sciences and Political Sciences are flowing. However, we have to be aware of the very different concept and methodology people in the respective field apply to reach their final goal. The "final goals" - designing a mathematical algorithm, operating a system, controlling rainforst cut - determine the view of the individual professional. 3.3 Manifold dimensions A profession in general is a function of time and space and there exist still more dimensions. As far as time is concerned, our profession is highly technol- ogy driven. Fast changing technical conditions have to be reflected by corresponding changes in tools and products and finally by the professional image. This is the main topic of this paper. Space stands for regional conditions of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. In the course of this century basic develop- ments in our field of activity occurred mainly in Europe and North America, although application, particularly in mapping from areal and space platforms, was largely performed in and for the Third World. The background of this paper is mostly from Central Europe, USA and Brazil, putting together very different social and economic environments. The professional image varies sig- nificantly: in Central Europe, one becomes photogrammetrist by education; in USA and Brazil by experience ("by doing"). Whereas in the USA a large open market of photogrammet- ric companies exist (see paragraph 4), Photogrammetry in Brazil is limited to some big companies, excluding national and international competition. Principally, the respective markets design the regional condi- tions for the differing image of our profession in the spatial context. Today we encounter globally a dramatic new dis- tribution of economically active and successful regions like south-east Asia and partially Latin America. In Europe, too, we observe a trend to lower legal restrictions in countries of the European Union (EU), and some even see new markets in Eastern Europe. All this must necessarily exert a significant impact on our own professional field. A third dimension can be found in the different professional levels. Not considering applications at this point, we have three levels of education (" academic", " engineer" and "tech- nician") and three types of activity ("research and devel- opment (R--D"), "project level" and "operational level"). There are, of course, no rigid limits between the particular sectors. This is graphically shown in a matrix (Fig. 1). As we know, the field of activities of our profession is in- deed confusingly broad, especially when adding more dimen- sions like the large spectrum of applications (from "on-line industrial control" to " monitoring global environment") and International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Vol. XXXI, Part B6. Vienna 1996 Figu a pr neig worl bust Ana and US ing, opeı 65 | tion 191 10r 10r The like ity c a pc at T retic alizz impl Adj tics, Syst are | Cart relat In n bina obvi awa! cati The try i in tl fere doze FM(

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