Some courses in town planning, resource management, forestry, geology, meteorology and others 
have introduced photogrammetry into their curriculum where there was none before. 
2. Post graduate level 
There is no course at masters or doctorate level in photogrammetry though a photogrammetric 
research topic can be chosen at some of the Australian tertiary educational institutions. 
One graduate diploma in photogrammetry based partly on course work and partly on research was 
introduced in 1975. The pre-requisite is a first qualification with two years undergraduate 
photogrammetry. 
3. Technician level 
The need for photogrammetric technicians is great in both the private and public sectors. To cater 
for their education, technician level courses are being introduced in most technical schools 
throughout Australia. These courses are already numerous and their number is still increasing. 
Technicians usually attend night classes while employed as trainees by a private firm or a 
government department. 
Survey technicians and cartographic draftsmen must also learn elementary photogrammetry as a 
compulsory subject of their training. 
As more people are involved in photogrammetric work and research, new fields of potential use of 
the science are discovered. Hopefully the next four years will see photogrammetry enter into more 
new fields and improve and simplify methods of production in Australia. 
A. Adamec 
Commission VII, Interpretation of Data: 
In view of recent Federal Environmental Protection Legislation calling for widespread 
environmental assessment and impact statements we are likely to be faced with an unprecedented 
demand for the data to be provided by remote sensing, and it seems that the only way to meet this 
demand is through new methods of data presentation, manipulation and handling via large scale data 
banks. Work has commenced in isolated government agencies on aspects of the data bank problem, the 
principal effort at this stage being concentrated on uniform geodetic reference systems for the 
information and methods of quantifying the various input data in terms other than that ordinarily 
obtainable from maps. It would take one or two years for a significant research effort to be generated in 
this field, but it is expected that as a preliminary work is done the need for radically new methods for 
data storage, manipulation and display will become obvious and this is now starting to generate 
preliminary research into methods of holography and coherent optical processing. 
It is expected that this demand for environmental information in its broadest sense will provide a 
stimulus to remote sensing activities because Australia with its large area and small population has no 
other cost-effective way of acquiring the information. The broad view developing amongst 
environmentalists is to consider input from more than the simple electromagnetic radiation sensors and 
to include remote sensing of atmospheric parameters like temperature and humidity profiles and 
including the acquisition of data of in situ sensors such as tide and rain gauges in isolated locations. 
Private industry has been much to the fore in applying remote sensing techniques to some of the 
more pressing demands for provision of environmental information and environmental monitoring in 
connection with large scale development projects. On the Northwest coast of Western Australia the 
health and vigour of mangrove areas is regularly monitored with infrared photography, and vegetation 
and soil surveys on remote inland sites is now being conducted by remote sensing. 
Prof. D. O'Connor