be mentioned, it having revolutionary land imaging instru-
ments all in line with the Landsat 7 ETM+ (ALI, the
advanced land imager, Hyperion, the imaging spectro-
meter and AC, the atmospheric corrector). Similar Earth-
observation-oriented R+D achievements can be reported
at ESA, NASDA, ISRO, and within other programme
implementation. Nodal points of the institutional network
(JRC SAI, CNES, DLR, CCRS, NASA, NRSA, AC, AUS-
LIG, INPE etc) have became inevitable fundaments for
the wider global spatial data infrastructure.
- Advances in hyperspectral imagery (HSI) exploitation
and field spectroscopy instrumentation using stan-
dardised spectral library. Achievements in this field
were presented at numerous conferences, most
notably at NASA's Annual AVIRIS Earth Sciences and
Applications Workshop (Pasadena, 1999, 2000), the
International SPIE Conference on Imaging Spectrome-
try (Denver, July 1999) and at the ISPRS Working
Group VII/1 supported ISSSR symposia (San Diego,
December 1997 and Las Vegas, November 1999).
Accomplishment of Commission VII (1996-2000)
For the years 1996-2000 a new Working Group structure
was set up as follows:
WG VII/1 Fundamental Physics and Modelling
WG VI/2 Application of Remote Sensing and GIS for
Sustainable Development
WG VII/3 Application of High Resolution Satellite
Imagery
WG VII/4 Automated Image Interpretation and Analysis
WG VII/5 Global Monitoring
WG VII/6 Radar Applications
WG VII/7 . devoted to *Non-renewal resources and geo-
technical appplications"
In Vienna, a co-operation between WG VII/5 and WG IV/4
on large/global dataset management was suggested and
accepted. Invited Advisory Board members of Commis-
sion VII served as rapporteurs:
Sergio Camacho (OOSA, United Nations, AUSTRIA),
Simonetta Cheli (ESA, FRANCE), Roberto Pereira da
Cunha (U) and Thelma Krug (INPE, BRAZIL), Ake Rosen-
qvist (NASDA, JAPAN, later DG JRC SAI) and Charles T.
Wooldridge (NOAA, USA).
Dissemination of Commission VII Related Information
The Internet web-pages of Commission VII were maintained
by H.Goodenough and Paul Pilon in Victoria, Canada
(http://www.hegyi.com/isprsc7). Mirrored web-pages can be
accessed also at the Budapest Technical University, mas-
tered by Istvan Sandor (http://mhsz.bme.hu/).
Relevant Workshops and Seminars with Active
Participation by ISPRS Commission VII
The actual scientific work of the Technical Commission
was done in the seven Working Groups. However, some
activities of the Commission officers are summarised as
follows:
- MERA 92 International Workshop on Soil Degradation
Assessment with the application of GIS and remote
sensing. Budapest, September, 1996. Topics: Regional
crop/land use inventory, Crop yield modelling, Forest
ecosystem mapping, Land degradation assessment
and related issues.
- Jnternational Seminar Series - Land use from research
200
to Teaching held at the Agricultural University, Debre-
cen Hungary December 1996. Topics: land use, rural
development and land consolidation, use of remote
sensing, aerial survey for sustainable agriculture.
Conference “Emerging Global Spatial Data Infrastruc-
ture” Bonn-Kônigswinter, September, 1996. Organised
by DDGI, AI, ILI, FIG Com.Ill, EUROGI. ISPRS was rep-
resented by Commission lll and VII (Prof. Fritsch and
Remetey-Fülópp respectively)
ECO-INFORMA'96 Global Network for Environmental
Information Lake Buena Vista, Florida USA November,
1996 Organised by ERIM, NOAA-NESDIS, USDE, and
others. Session Co-chair and lecturer was Dr. V.H.
Singhroy, Co-chair of ISPRS WG VII/2.
EURISY Colloquium: Earth Observation and the Envi-
ronment: Benefits for the Central and Eastern
European Countries. Budapest, May, 1997 in presence
of Hubert Curien, Founder president of EURISY,
chaired by G. Duchossois of ESA, V. Perdigao of DG
JRC, Gottfied Konecny of IPI/ISPRS, H.Curien of
EURISY and G. Remetey-Fülópp of ISPRS Commis-
sion VII. Presentations included land cover project (Gy.
Büttner), crop monitoring (G. Csornai), European For-
est Inventory (S. Folving), satellite data for map updat-
ing (P. Winkler).
2nd world conference on "Global Spatial Data Infra-
structure for Sustainable Development" October, 1997,
Chapel Hill NC, USA
International Symposium of Spectral
Research, San Diego, December, 1997
Inter-commission Workshop was prepared on GIS, Air-
borne Remote Sensing and Geospatial Data Clearing-
house in Budapest, February, 1998 by ISPRS Commis-
sion Ill with direct involvement of President Toni Shenk,
WG 1lI/3 Co-chair Beata Csathd (Ohio State University,
Colombus) and Secretary Erzsébet Merényi (Arizona Uni-
versity, Tucson). Topics included geospatial databases,
state-of-the-art of tools and methods, including pho-
togrammetry, remote sensing, airborne geophysics, mul-
tispectral, hyperspectral sensors and methods, geophys-
ical and geological interpretation methods, as well as
multiple sensor integration.
ISPRS Council Strategic Planning Meeting Silver
Spring, March 1998. Written contribution based on
completed questionnaire, sharing the views on ISPRS
long-range strategic planning.
On accessibility of remotely sensed data — a vision.
Edited by Alison Munro of the Space Application Insti-
tute of the Joint Research Centre and contributed by
G. Remetey-Fülópp, the document entitled “A strategic
view of GIS Research and Technology Development for
Europe", has been published by the European Union.
The mid-term Symposium of the Commission VII (ECO
BP'98) on Resources and Environmental Monitoring.
Budapest, September 1998. The event attracted 196
registered participants (including many of the ISPRS
Council members) from 33 countries of 5 continents
(35 from Hungary). Moreover, 62 invited Hungarian
senior decision-makers and an additional 59 profes-
sional visitors attended the open day devoted to com-
mercial exhibitions and presentations. From the scien-
tific point of view, ECO BP’98 was a great success.
Major application areas where novel research and
technology development methodology were applied
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