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INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAMMETRY 
TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS 
LISBON, PORTUGAL 
Plotting, Theory and Instruments 
The General Report of Commission II 
albert l. nowicki, President 
Chester e. kowalczyk, Secretary 
john h. Wickham, tr., U. S. Reporter 
Introduction 
T he General Report of Commission II, International Society for Photogrammetry, for the 
period 1960 to 1964 is based on information gathered in a questionnaire sent to all National 
Societies. The questionnaire concerned itself with data defining the type of organization re 
porting; activities carried out, when established and number of personnel involved; types of 
equipment utilized for compilation and aerial triangulation; scales of map products; other 
uses of equipment than mapping; use of automatic plotting and orthophotoscope type of 
equipment; use of comparators, coordinate readers and/or auxiliary equipment; types of 
cameras; possible use of infrared, radar and color photography; use of Airborne Profile Re 
corder (APR) data, Shoran-type photography, Shoran-type trilatération, Statoscope equip 
ment; reseau grids; use of film or glass plate photography; and data on new instruments and 
techniques perfected or used since 1960. 
Questionnaires were sent to each National Reporter (or National Society Office) of 42 
member countries of ISP. Each reporter, in turn, was asked to send copies to those organiza 
tions within his respective country concerned with photogrammetric effort. Of 42 countries 
represented, 17 turned in replies. For example, in the United States, of 277 questionnaires dis 
tributed, a total of 78 were returned with data; in Australia 22 replies were received, in Japan 
19 replies were received; and in West Germany 21 replies were received. Besides the 78 replies 
received from the United States an additional 109 were received from 16 other countries. These 
latter included Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Finland, France, Germany (Democratic 
Republic), Germany (West), Holland, India, Japan, Malaya, Morocco, Norway, South Africa 
and Switzerland. 
Photogrammetry and Aerial Photography Products and Uses 
The questionnaires have revealed that photogrammetry and aerial photography have been 
used in connection with the following: 
1. Planimetric, mosaic, topographic, geologic, forestry, cadastral, soils, terrestrial, recon 
naissance, aeronautical, aeromagnetic, military and hydrographic map and chart compilation 
and revision work. 
2. Instruction and training of Civil Engineering, Surveying, Geology, Geography, Mining, 
Forestry and Photogeology students. 
3. Development and manufacture of equipment and cameras. 
4. Photointerpretation, aerial triangulation, analytical bridging, radial template bridging, 
and numerical triangulation. 
5. Plans and studies concerning agriculture, water supply, hydroelectric power, soil classi 
fication, vegetation, flood control, mosquito breeding ground, rural improvement, high tension 
lines, navigable waterways, route surveys, monument and battlefield sites, historical temples, 
hydraulic models, wave movement, animal body configuration, city planning, highway and 
railroad locations, profiles and cross-sections, perspective picture compilations, cloud positions 
released by rockets, comparison of reduced and actual models, architecture, research and ex 
periments, coordinate cadastral measurements, resources, terrain profiles, stereo vision tests, 
land consolidation, glaciology, tropical rain forests, placer and coal mining, area compilation,