Resolution and Their Disposition: 
from the Symposium on Remote Sensing 
for Vegetation Damage Assessment 
Seattle, Wash., 1978 
  
P.A. Murtha 
Associate Professor 
Faculty of Forestry 
University of British Columbia 
Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1W5 
Canada 
ABSTRACT 
A Symposium on Remote Sensing for Vegetation Damage Asseement 
was held in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., on February 14, 15, and 
16, 1978. Four invited and 27 presented papers were delivered 
during the Symposium. The papers dealt with: (i) 
the theory of vegetation damage detection and assessment, (ii) the 
technologies involved, (iii) case studies, and (iv) economics and 
current applications. Resolutions were called for and submitted 
during the Symposium, and were presented, discussed, voted upon, 
and their disposition decided at the end of the Symposium. The 
resolutions reflected the moods, present needs and future concerns 
of the scientist and managers at the meeting. The resolutions 
asked for: 
(i) A.S.P. and ISP-Comm. VII support and encouragement of 
research into vegetative dysfunction relative to remote sensing; 
(ii) an international study on "previsual" or extravisual damage 
detection; 
(iii) more precise definition of "damage", and damage classes; 
(iv) coding of forest damage types in chronic vegetation damage 
situations;