GENERAL SUMMARY REPORT OF COMMISSION VII
PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION APPLICA-
TIONS
There is much to report in the fields of in-
terests of Working Groups 3 through 6. How-
ever little need be said on these subjects in the
General Summary. Interpretation work in
the fields of forestry, geology and soils anal-
ysis still appears to account for the greatest
quantity of effort; however application in
urban and industrial fields is being increased
steadily. Ice interpretation is a rather new
and interesting field, and one in which more
work may be expected in the next reporting
period.
Of the applications not covered by our pres-
ent working group structure, the application
of photographic interpretation to historical
and archeological research seems to be among
the most active as recent papers (6) (7)
testify. It is believed that an archeological
working group may well be activated for the
next reporting period.
CONCLUSION
The science of photographic interpretation,
as seen from the vantage point of Commission
VII, continues to be a restless, rapidly grow-
ing field. New applications are continually
being found, and those already existing are
being pushed into new areas. At the same
time, there is a growing awareness of the need
for more research in all phases of the science.
This need seems, at the moment, to be most
critical in the area of measuring and improv-
ing photographic interpretability.
The need for coordination and communica-
tion between the many wide-spread and
widely diversified members of this profession
remains great. It is believed that Commission
VII, by further broadening its scope, and per-
haps increasing the frequency and distribu-
tion of its reports, can aid considerably in the
satisfying of this need.
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