Modern trends of education in photogrammetry & remote sensing

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Persistent identifier:: 856467936

Title:: Modern trends of education in photogrammetry & remote sensing

Sub title:: ISPRS Commission VI Symposium, September 13 - 16, 1990, Rhodes Island, Greece

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (251 Seiten)

Year of publication:: 1990

Place of publication:: Athens

Publisher of the original:: Technical Chamber of Greece

Identifier (digital):: 856467936

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Language:: English

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

Publisher of the digital copy:: Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover

Place of publication of the digital copy:: Hannover

Year of publication of the original:: 2016

Document type:: Monograph

Collection:: Earth sciences

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Title:: Education of Photogrammetry (WG VI/2).

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Title:: SENSE AND NONSENSE IN OUR DISCIPLINE AND PROFESSION. Teodor J. Blachut.

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55 For example in China, despite good quality 1:10 000 conventional topographical maps covering most of the populated —- recrions, and the rulincr communist system which does not recognize u J c,o\ individually owned land, the lack of cadastral maps and other information contained in cadastre makes rational and efficient land administration and development impossible. With a population exceeding 1 100 000 000 (over 80% in agriculture), the ~ population density surpasses all imagination. The congestion of ■. dwellings in urban areas and villages, combined with an QW exceptionally low standard of living, make China a particularly complex case. A solution can only be found by a novel approach QC using efficient and economic photogrammetric methods outside the urban areas. This would provide a workable basis for the usual . cadastral field work. ’ Any conventional last century approach, f as is being advocated by some invited European "experts", is ludicrous. Throwing in the notion of "computer supported cadastral mapping" displays basic ignorance and further detracts attention from the real issues and problems. The present _. r political turmoil in China compounds the critical situation and QO removes from sight an urgently needed solution. But we must 7 a remember that here we are talking about 25% of the total world population in a country proud of its past and its unique achievements. no No better, in the context of the present discussion, is the' mo situation in other Asiatic countries. Because of the chaos in our field they are seriously hampered in their efforts to achieve some progress in economic and social domains, re on Revolting examples of deficiencies in the field of our responsibility are encountered everywhere on the African w Continent. Recently I was invited by a local UN agency to study 0 b the situation in our field in seven countries belonging to the S p so-called Subregion of Eastern and Southern Africa. The th subregion covers an area of about 6 500 000 km 2 and have a population of about 140 000 000. The percentage of the population living from the land varies from 71% to" 84%! The average land use in the region is: Q% arable land, 26% forests co and woodland and 66% remaining land. These figures alone point I to a formidable socio-economic problems facing the region." The f few existing surveying departments at universities are in an m embrionic state, and despite a critical shortage of professional s surveyors the departments have difficulties in recruiting the T minimum number of students to justify their existence. In these p huge countries the total number of "professional" surveyors d rarely exceeds a very few persons. But even they are k underemployed and lead an obviously miserable life. This, I w] assure you, is an honest description of the "scientific" and d "professional" status of cur discipline on tnis huge continent. m This sad description could also be representative of other areas a oi the world. As a result, I was told in various countries that m businessmen who were ready to invest capital in the establishment

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