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There are more conferences and meetings organized each year 
in the country dedicated completely or partly to 
photogrammetry and remote sensing. Two regular international 
conferences in Ostrava and Se¢ combine remote sensing with 
GIS specialists. Remote sensing and photogrammetry are 
presented in special sessions there. The seminar/conference 
organized at the Faculty of Civil Engineering CTU Prague by 
the Czech group of ISPRS is completely dedicated to these two 
specializations. Being organized in the first row for PhD 
students” presentations, it is always an important meeting of all 
interested experts. 
7. COMMISSION VII: RESOURCE AND 
ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING 
Resource and environment monitoring is mainly a part 
activities of special groups in the country as the Ecological 
Institute of Academy of Science, departments teaching remote 
sensing and photogrammetry etc. Environmental monitoring is 
not performed permanently and for the whole country. It is 
often a subject of individual projects supported by the Grant 
Agency of the Czech Republic or by other institutes. Project 
concerning efficiency of forest reclamation in brown coal 
open-cast area is an example of them. 
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Important photogrammetric group is responsible for brown 
coal open-cast change documentation in the northern Bohemia. 
Forestry Institute in Brandys nad Labem having a long history 
of forestry health state detection and mapping continues in its 
activities which are more oriented to inventory problems. It is 
due to changes after 1989. Large forest arcas are in private 
hands now and the state administration wants to keep a certain 
control over all forests as the national richness. This control is 
defined by law where rules of forest owners are mentioned. 
The activities connected to the control performance were 
studied in a project of the Ministry of Agriculture concerning 
automated aerial orthophoto processing. 
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EUROGYV, 2004. http://www.eurogv.cz/serv02.htm 
GEODIS Brno, 2004. http://www.geodis.cz/www/ 
Laboratory of Photogrammetry, Faculty of Civil Engineering, 
CTU Prague, http:/Ifgm.fsv.cvut.cz/ 
Remote Sensing Laboratory, Faculty of Civil Engineering, 
CTU Prague, http://gama.fsv.cvut.cz/~safarik/ 
TopolSoftware, 2004. http://www .topol.cz