XVIIIth Congress: Commission VI

Kraus, Karl; Waldhäusl, Peter

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Title:: XVIIIth Congress

Sub title:: Vienna, Austria 1996

Year of publication:: 1996

Place of publication:: Vienna

Publisher of the original:: Austrian Society of Surveying and Geoinformation

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Language:: English

Editor:: Kraus, Karl; Waldhäusl, Peter

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

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

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

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Persistent identifier:: 1677550198

Title:: Commission VI

Scope:: 149, 110, 92 Seiten

Year of publication:: 1996

Place of publication:: Vienna

Publisher of the original:: Austrian Society of Surveying and Geoinformation

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Language:: English

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

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:: OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS OF REMOTE SENSING IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC . Bruce Forster [...] Special Session

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forests are being depleted at a rate of 11.5 million hectares per year. According to Rao (1991) the countries of the region share acute environmental problems due to indiscriminate exploitation of natural resources as a result of a growing demand for food, drinking water, energy and pressure on land resources. Deforestation, over irrigation and overgrazing have caused large areas of land to be degraded by erosion , increased salinity, waterlogging or desertification. In India and Vietnam, for example, 50 per cent of the land has been degraded. Although many countries have begun to implement programmes to reduce erosion, the problem remains serious and widespread (FAO, 1989). The vast expanse of tropical ocean, the climate and the geological history of the region predispose it to natural hazards. Typical of these are typhoons and cyclones, storm surges and floods, bushfires and drought, tsunami, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. However again these are differentially distributed throughout the region. For example, of the 30 or so major floods worldwide each year, 80 per cent of the victims live in Bangladesh, China and India (ESCAP, 1993c). Forest fires severely affect Indonesia and Australia, while earthquakes and volcanic activity affect an arc stretching from New Zealand to Japan, the ring of fire. A major problem common to many countries of the region is that rapid economic development is resulting in environment and resource depletion, an overtaxed physical and social infrastructure and the exponential growth of cities due to urban migration and rapidly expanding populations. Currently economic growth in Asia is of the order of 8 per cent per annum compared with only 2 per cent for the whole world. It is predicted that many cities of this region will have doubled their population in the 20 years to the year 2000, for example Shanghai, 13.4 to 22 million, Jakarta, 7.3 to 16 million, Manila, 5.7 to 12 million, and Bangkok, 4.9 to 11 million, (Graetz et al, 1992). In the same time period India may have joined China as the second country to have a billion plus population. Rapid urbanisation has created or exacerbated many significant problems in the region, including shortage of fresh water, inadequate waste management and mass public transport, and widespread pollution. Meeting the minimal requirements of the rapidly growing population has often driven decision makers to accelerate the pace of economic development with ecologically unsound decisions (Rao, 1991). 52 Strong growth in per capita use of energy, due to rapid economic development, has also contributed to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions and acid rains (ESCAP, 1994). With the new laws of the sea soon to come into operation countries such as Australia and Indonesia will control vast areas of ocean, and will need to take on the huge task of environmentally managing and controlling these areas. Many Pacific island countries will control greater proportions of ocean than they will of land. 3. REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS To monitor, manage and overcome these problems countries of the region are increasingly turning to remote sensing tools (and GIS) to provide appropriate answers. This is best illustrated by an analysis of the papers published in the Asian-Pacific Remote Sensing Journal over the past five years. The journal is published by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP, United Nations) through its Regional Remote Sensing Programme. While remote sensing specialists of the region publish there application results in a number of international and national journals, it is suggested that those published in the Asian- Pacific Remote Sensing Journal will provide a representative sample allowing an analysis of the different applications and their relative importance. The papers from 1991 to 1995 were categorised according to application type and also according to sub-regional areas. These sub-regional areas were considered to be North and East Asia ( which included papers from China, Japan, Mongolia, Korea), South East Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Singapore, Myanmar), Australasia and Oceania (Australia New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji), South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka) and West Asia (Iran, Saudi Arabia). Table 1 lists the papers from each region by application areas given as a percentage of total papers from that region. In considering the table it should be recognised that the greatest sample of papers came from the South Asia and South East Asia sub-regions with the other sub-regions being under represented,, nevertheless some conclusions can be drawn for all sub-regions. In the Australasian and Oceania sub-region it can be seen that the greatest percentage of papers were in ocean and near coastal water studies as would be expected International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Vol. XXXI, Part B6. Vienna 1996 pe his his the pai the for foi cus sul

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