e Several groups have been contacted to 
determine willingness to undertake or 
contribute to a workshop on SAR data 
analysis at the ISPRS Congress July 
1996 in Vienna, Austria. 
WG 11/5 - "Integrated Production 
Systems" 
by Chairman: 
Co-Chairman: 
Dr. Atef A. Elassal (USA) 
Dr. M.M. Radwan 
(Netherlands) 
Dr. Roop C. Malhotra 
(USA) 
WG Members: 15 
Secretary: 
Terms of Reference 
e the role of GIS, image analysis systems 
(IAS), remote sensing and 
photogrammetric technologies in the 
design of Integrated Production 
Systems (IPS) 
* design and development aspects of 
IPS, including benchmark tests for 
system evaluation 
* standards/methodologies for data 
communication, data exchange, 
operational data flow and output for 
IPS 
* development of total digital platforms 
and spatial information infrastructure 
for the management of heterogeneous 
corporate databases 
Working Group II/5 Accomplishments 
July 9, 1993 - letters of invitations to join 
the WG were sent world-wide to persons 
in academia, industry and government 
agencies. 
Working Group Membership - there are 
now fourteen members, including two 
reporters, representing ten countries. 
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Circular letter - the task of collecting 
information with the objective of 
publishing a user guide for Integrated 
Production Systems: "IPS User Guide 
"was identified by WG chair. Letters to 
the members were sent out to solicit 
information on existing IPS world-wide. 
Circular letter - a sample of an IPS was 
prepared and enclosed in a circular letter 
to the membership for information 
content and template in which the 
information may be presented. 
November 8 , 1993 - a working group 
meeting was at NOAA, Silver Spring, 
Maryland immediately following the 1993 
ASPRS Minnesota, Convention. 
State of Science and Technology of 
Working Group II/5 Topics 
Following the successful Working Group 
Meeting in November, and number of 
issues concerning Integrated Production 
Systems rose to the forefront. Highlights 
of the WG Meeting and these issues are as 
follows: 
* it was recognized that the spatial data 
information collected by 
photogrammetric based IPS must be 
linked to some GIS for analysis and 
end products. 
* for wider use of IPS, existing IPS must 
be characterized for functionality, 
hardware/software, and other 
relevant information to assist users in 
setting up IPS for data collection to 
cater to the community needs. This 
boiled down to the WG task identified 
by Dr. Elassal and Dr. Malhotra in the 
initial search for WG tasks. 
* it was suggested that to better 
understand the scope of the WG and 
the IPS, the systems that the WG 
addresses must be called: "Integrated 
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