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field data capture and fusion techniques in environmental
impact assessment, mining-induced environmental prob-
lems (seismic, landslide, flood hazards, toxic wastes, tail-
ings and spoiled sediments, soil degradation etc.), risk
assessments, sensitivity analysis, toxic waste and its
impact on health (Medical Geology), ecological assess-
ment of reclamation activities and monitoring of long term
development in mining areas, groundwater, soil and air
pollution, mining-induced urbanisation, legal/illegal mining
and its influence on the ecosystem, acid mine drainage
and its influence on the surface waters.
Major activity of the WG VII/7 is planned for the ISPRS
2000 Congress in Amsterdam, where WG VII/7 is involved
in TC VII-8, TU11 and WS5. In view of this, little was done
in organising Symposium/ Workshop/seminars in Europe.
Instead, the Chairman of the WG VII/7 (also in his capacity
as Secretary General of the African Association of Remote
Sensing of the Environment - AARSE) fully participated in
various meetings and organisations in line with the activi-
ties of the Working Group.
- March 1999 - a three day meeting of the organising and
scientific Committee in Cape Town, South Africa. The
purpose was to prepare ground for the Cape Town
2000 Symposium of the 28th International Symposium
on Remote Sensing of Environment and the 3rd African
Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment
(AARSE) on “Information for Sustainable Develop-
ment”. The Symposium covers several themes and is
planned for March 27th-31st, 2000. So far, more than
four hundred abstracts have been received. (For more
information refer to: http://www.isrse. co.za/).
- Accra, 21st-25th June 1999. 4th Africa GIS Conference
and exhibition on “Emergent Africa-GEO-Information
and Globalisation” organised by the EIS Program,
OACT, and AARSE in collaboration with the Ministry of
Environment, Science & Technology and Ministry of
Lands & Forestry. More than 140 participants attended
the Conference.
- Enschede, 11th-13th July, 1999. Second EARSeL
Workshop on Imaging Spectroscopy, The Netherlands
(http://www.itc.nl/is2/). Attended only.
- Vechta, Germany (October 28th-29th, 1999). Two days
Workshop on "Integrated Modelling by favourability
functions", held under the European Union GETS Pro-
ject in Vechta, Germany. Woldai attended the GETS
meeting of Team Leaders. Woldai's involvement in this
meeting as Chairman of CVII/WG7 resulted in both
financial and participatory support for the TU11 Work-
shop which will be held in Amsterdam. The EU-GETS
Project will totally finance all speakers, students, and
computers for the workshop, Workshop rooms at the
Free University of Amsterdam, and the publication of
the papers presented in a book form).
- Cotonou 6th - 9th December 1999. Conference on
“Promoting Space Technology Transfer and Geomatics
Education in Africa”, Cotonou, Benin. The Conference
dealt with several themes and more than 120 partici-
pants coming from twenty African and other countries
attended the conference. The Conference was organ-
ised by the ISPRS Commission VI, AARSE and CENA-
TEL (Benin). (http://xerxes.sph.umich.edu:2000/confs
/benin/). The Proceedings of the Conference are given
in ISPRS, Volume XXXII, part 6W7, edited by Luigi
Mussio.
In 1998 (11-15 May), a scientific Symposium on Opera-
tional Remote Sensing for Sustainable Development was
held at the International Institute for Aerospace Survey &
Earth Sciences (ITC), Enschede, in The Netherlands. It was
organised by the European Association of Remote Sensing
Laboratories (EARSeL), the Netherlands Society for Earth
Observation and Geo-informatics (NSEOG) and co-spon-
sored by Rijkwaterstaat, Surveying Department,
ESA/ESTEC and the European Union. At this Symposium,
the ISPRS Commission VII/7 together with the Geological
Survey Division of the ITC organised a half day workshop
on May 14th, 1998 related to remote sensing and GIS for
non-renewable resources and geotechnical applications.
An outcome of the papers delivered during this Sympo-
sium is now published in the International Journal of
Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, Vol. 1,
issue, pp.2-78, ITC, The Netherlands (Special Editors: van
der Meer, F., Molenaar, M., Nieuwenhuis, G., Woldai, T.).
Working Group Programme for 2000
Active participation in the 28th International Symposium
on Remote Sensing of Environment and the 3rd African
Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment
(AARSE) on *Information for Sustainable Development",
Cape Town, March 27th-31rd, 2000. (For more information
refer to: http://www.isrse.co.za/).
WG VII/7 is involved in TC VII-8, TU11 and WS5 of the
ISPRS Congress in Amsterdam.
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Outlook 2000-2004 of Incoming Technical Commission Presidents
ISPRS Technical Commission |
Sensors, Platfoms and Imagery
Incoming President: Stan Morain (USA)
Incoming Secretary: Amy Budge (USA)
Outlook by Incoming President
The United States has not hosted Commission | since
Dr. M.B. Scher was President between 1968 and 1972.
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In those days, the Commission was responsible for
issues related to aerial photography and navigation. His
Commission ended the very year and month that Land-
sat-1 inaugurated the satellite era for civilian Earth
observations. Today, Commission-| focuses on sensors
(cameras and scanners), platforms (airborne and space-
borne) and imagery (both film and raster-based). The
mid-Congress symposium in 2002 will mark the 30th
anniversary of the Landsat Program, and the United
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