* The WG will prepare two tutorials for 
the ISPRS Commission II Symposium 
in Ottawa; topics are: "GPS for 
Photogrammetry and Aerial 
Mapping”, and “Mobile Data 
Collection for GIS”. 
* A technical session will be organized 
at the Workshop on High Precision 
Navigation (Germany 1994/95). 
e The WG will participate at a Joint 
Workshop on “Computer Vision in 
Photogrammetry” in Stuttgart, 
Germany (8-10 November, 1995); 
organized together with WGs 1/5 and 
II/2- 5. 
e WG will co-sponsor a Joint Workshop 
with InterCommission WG II/III in 
USA (1994/95) 
e WG will organize a Joint Workshop 
with WG III/I in Barcelona, Spain 
(1995). 
* The WG will actively participate at the 
following conferences: Commission V 
Symposium, Australia (April 1994), 
Commission III Symposium, Germany 
(September 1994). 
WG II/2 - "Hardware and Software 
Aspects of GIS" 
by Chairman: Dr. Manfred Ehlers 
(Germany) 
Co-Chairman: Nickolas L. Faust (USA) 
Secretary: David Steiner (Germany) 
WG Members: 48 
Terms of Reference 
* design and operational aspects of the 
integration of GIS with image analysis 
systems 
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e studies of GIS characterized by 
workstation, mainframe and 
microstations in a heterogeneous 
environment 
e studies of parallel processors, array 
processors, supercomputers and 
optical hybrid systems for improving 
GIS 
* design and performance issues for 3-D 
GIS 
* studies of benchmark designs for 
integrated GIS 
* studies of man-machine interaction: 
displays techniques, interactive 
techniques and audio interaction 
e hardware and software for 
input/output aspects of GIS 
e studies of GIS standardization as 
applied to user interface, networking, 
testing and databases 
Accomplishments of Working Group II/2 
The working group has accomplished the 
following: 
April 6, 1993 - Working Group Meeting at 
the 25th International Symposium: 
Remote Sensing and Global 
Environmental Change. The Meeting was 
attended by 19 participants and convened 
by Manífred Ehlers, who gave a brief 
introduction to the structure of ISPRS and 
its working groups. A short description 
of the other Commission II working 
groups was presented. This was followed 
by a description and explanation of WG 
II/2's terms of reference. 
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