the National Societies to prepare publications concerning
contributions to the history of photogrammetry in their
countries. Je proposed to issue a seperate volume under
the common title "National Contributions to the History
of Photogrammetry". But until now we have received such
papers only from Hungary and Thailand and some remarks
from Czechoslovakia.
Therefore the data from Hungary and Czechoslovakia
were published tegother with the Papers for the Interna-
tional Symposium Commission VI /The Stanislaw Staszic Uni-
versity of Mining and Metallurgy Kraków, May 1975/. The
paper from Thailand is not published and it Should be in-
cluded in future in & seperate volume devoted to the his-
tory of photogrammetry. |
: Commission Board /Dr.Jachimski and myself/ is still
very concerned with the idea of collecting national his-
tories of photogrammetry. We believe that technologies as
well as the people who have built them up in theory or
practice are worth being remembered by the younger genera-
tion. It is really the last call to the most honourable
Senior Coleagues from all over the world to take this fact
into consideration. We think that there is no real need to
write the history with all its aspects right away. It would
be much easier and very appreciable to start with interes-
ting memoirs, throwing some light not only on the events
and circumstances but showing also the authors personal
opinions and their attitudes towards events and technolo-
gies.
The Working Group VI-3 "Terminology" with Dr.J.Pietsch-
ner - as chairman is continuing the activities concerning
the unique photogrammetrio terminology. The main goal has
been to finish the realization of the multilingual photo-
grammetrio terminology. As a base for discussion the Ger-
man Democratic Republic standard national photogrammetric
symbols and definitions were distributed /March 28. ,1975/
among all national reporters of Commission VI. The com -
ments about this matter are very desirable but they are
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