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The President's Honorary Citation
Guidelines for Publication and Review of The Interna-
tional Archives of Photogrammetry &
Remote Sensing
Authors Preparing Manuscripts for
ISPRS Sponsored Meetings
Presentation of Technical Papers at
ISPRS Congresses and Symposia
Preparation of Reports of ISPRS Spon-
sored/Supported Conferences and Meet-
ings
Guidelines for
Manual for
Guidelines for
Outline for Preparation of ISPRS Annual Reports
Guidelines for Preparation and Maintenance of ISPRS
Web pages
Guidelines for Members Planning to Host an ISPRS
Congress
Candidates for Members of the Council
ISPRS Financial Commission
ISPRS Council Spending Policy
Guidelines for
Guidelines for
Guidelines for
ISPRS Awards Policy
Guidelines for Preparation of National Reports for
Amsterdam Congress - 2000
Terms of Reference for Sustaining Members
The ISPRS Home Page was launched at the XVIII ISPRS
Congress in Vienna, with access through the World Wide
Web. The Home Page was originally installed on a server at
ETH Zurich, with Dr André Streilein as the Webmaster. Sub-
sequently, the information has been transferred to the server
at TU Delft, The Netherlands. The ISPRS expresses its grat-
itude to both ETH Zurich and TU Delft for providing access
to the server free of charge, and especially Dr Streilein for his
excellent maintenance of the Home Page over the past 5
years. Unfortunately, he will be relinquishing his position in
August. At little cost to ISPRS, an internationally recognis-
able address has now been established for the ISPRS Home
Page as ISPRS.org. As with most international activities
throughout the world, the ISPRS Home Page has become a
major source of published details on ISPRS activities. All sig-
nificant information on ISPRS is provided on the Home Page,
which has now grown to the equivalent of 220,000 lines of
text. There are currently over 45,000 requests for access per
month on the Home Page. The Home Page is clearly an
essential source of communication for ISPRS. A separate
report will be given on the Home Page by Dr Streilein.
Council Meetings
Nine Council Meetings and five Joint Meetings with Coun-
cil and Technical Commission Presidents (at the same
location as the corresponding Council Meetings) were held
in the period 1996-2000. Council is grateful for the support
of Ordinary Members in providing Council accommodation
and meeting facilities. They were provided twice by Japan
in Oigami and Bangkok, by USA in Seattle, Brazil in Rio de
Janeiro and Natal, India in Bangalore, Germany in Stuttgart
and Bad Wildbad, twice by The Netherlands in Enschede
and Delft, and Koudun (for the pre-Congress meeting) and
by Hungary in Budapest. Council also expresses its grati-
tude to Ordinary Member hosts of Technical Commission
Symposia for the provision of free accommodation and
registration at the Technical Commission Symposia in
India, UK, USA, Germany, Japan and Indonesia.
Minutes of all Council and Joint meetings were prepared
ISPRS
- 2000
by the Secretary General, amounting to about 150 pages.
All minutes have been placed on the ISPRS Home Page
and abbreviated versions have been published in ISPRS
Highlights. Council devoted its time at Council Meetings to
covering a broad range of issues, including the Technical
Commission and Working Group activities and Symposia,
ISPRS publications especially ISPRS Highlights, ISPRS
Guidelines, ISPRS Statutes and Bylaws, Congress organi-
sation, Membership and financial matters. A total of 339
actions were planned, in addition to the regular actions
required by the Statutes and Bylaws, the majority being
completed before the Congress. Council has worked hard
and very productively over the past four years, as | believe
will be revealed by the documents presented to this Gen-
eral Assembly. It has been a pleasure to work with my col-
leagues on the Council.
Headquarters Management
The Headquarters were established at the School of Geo-
matic Engineering at the University of New South Wales for
the period 1996-2000. All files are electronic, and most
documents are distributed electronically. Given the time
commitment of the Secretary General over this period, it is
clear that permanent secretarial/clerical assistance is
required to relieve this load. Council made a decision at
the Strategy Meeting in 1998 that it would not install a
permanent office for ISPRS Headquarters, as some organ-
isations similar to ISPRS have done recently. The reasons
for this decision were that such an office would in most
cases isolate the Secretary General from the Headquarters
(if the Secretary General resides a significant distance from
the Headquarters) and hence cause difficulty in his/her
management of the day-to-day affairs of the Society. How-
ever, Council supports the provision of funding for secre-
tarial/clerical assistance for the Head-quarters at the loca-
tion of the Secretary General. Given the increased
demands on employees in all sectors of the profession,
academia, industry and government, it will become even
more difficult in future to find people who are available and
willing to make such a voluntary commitment to ISPRS, no
matter what the benefits are of such a commitment. ISPRS
must therefore be prepared to fund the Headquarters to a
greater extent than has been required in the past.
International Activities of the Secretary General
The Secretary General has travelled numerous times over
the last four years to attend Council Meetings, Technical
Commission Symposia and international organisation
meetings, and to meet 21 Ordinary and Regional Members
on their home soil. He has also attended meetings of the
Committee for Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS),
the Committee for Earth Observation Satellite (CEOS), the
International Council of Science (ICSU) and International
Human Dimensions Program (IHDP).
Acknowledgments
The tasks of Secretary General would not have been suc-
cessfully completed without the forbearance of the Dean
of Engineering and the staff of the School of Geomatic
Engineering at the University of NSW, who tolerated my
commitment to the work of ISPRS, which included many
absences overseas, while | was also Head of School from
1996-1999. Many overhead expenses were carried by the
School of Geomatic Engineering and | wish to acknowl-
International Archives of Photogrammerty and Remote Sensing. Vol. XXXIII, Part A. Amsterdam 2000.
