about 2,500 people (1.67% of the total manpower in photogram- 
metry and remote sensing of 150,000 people) with total annual 
R & D expenditures of at least US $35 million (excluding clas- 
sified, strictly military R & D efforts). It is obvious that 
the evaluation of the present efforts and future requirements 
as to R & D in photogrammetry and remote sensing, world-wide, 
must be one of the important tasks of ISPRS WG VI-1. 
This particularly applies to developing countries with largely 
unsufficient photogrammetry and remote sensing R & D manpowers 
and expenditures. 
There is a large amount of information contained in Laval 
University's Surveying & Mapping Data Bank on the present day's 
R & D efforts in photogrammetry and remote sensing and it is 
hoped that in the near future more specific figures can be 
communicated on the world's present photogrammetry and remote 
sensing R & D manpower, available equipment and annual expendi- 
tures. 
AN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTATION CENTER ON SURVEYING & MAPPING 
(S & M), INCLUDING PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING 
As already reported in Ref.'s 4 and 5, there exists a volumin- 
ous S & M Data Bank at Laval University (Unit: Photogrammetry) 
which data bank includes much information also on the world's 
photogrammetry and remote sensing operation. Such information 
is of considerable usefulness for the performance of work 
pertinent to ISPRS WG VI-1, especially as far as professional 
statistics are concerned. Among other items, the Data Bank 
contains about 100,000 addresses of organizations and key 
persons involved in S & M (including photogrammetry and remote 
sensing). This data bank is as far as possible up-dated and 
includes also information on available manpower, as well as 
education and research facilities in photogrammetry and remote 
sensing. This information is being used to complete the infor- 
mation obtained from the regional sub-working groups of ISPRS 
WG-1. 
Here, it should be added that a portion of the information 
contained in the data bank was and is provided by official and 
completed United Nations and FAO questionnaires to pertinent 
organizations. Access to this particular information to ISPRS 
WG-1 is assured due to the fact that the author of this paper 
is the consultant in charge of the United Nations for the 
analysis of the status of world cartography as well as an FAO 
consultant for the establishment of a world aerial photographic 
index. 
It is evident that the large amount of information contained 
in Laval University's S & M Data Bank should be made available 
to all persons and organizations interested in such information 
(including persons and organizations particularly interested 
in photogrammetry and remote sensing). 
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