following branches
- an Automatic Remote Sensing Multispectral
Data Processing System has been developed;
- some test fields have been established
to calibrate aerial and spatial data using
soil information, which the terrestrial,
aerial and space platforms had taken;
- areas with moisture in excess, salt lands
and erosion-damaged ones have been esta-
blished and used to solve some designing
land improvement requirements;
- some land fund concern monitoring (mining,
industrial and domestic waste material
deposits, lands put under crop located over
surface mining areas, built-in area deve-
lopment monitoring, soil pollution moni-
toring over areas adjacent to industrial
sites, hydromeliorative system behaviour
monitoring in the course of time);
- manifold studies over the Danube Delta;
- pasture inventory and monitoring;
- environmental monitoring;
- topographic and thematic map compilation
and updating.
It is worth mentioning our concern to de-
velop a Romanian manifold Remote Sensing
system in cooperation with some internatio-
nal organisations. Thus, a National Remote
Sensing Centre is to be established to sup-
port the required technical basis carrying
out some usual approaches related to va-
rious fields of activity.
GIS AND DIGITAL MAPPING DEVELOPMENT
Manifold researches over the Danube Delta
and wet areas have been carried out within
the I.C.B., to:
- investigate morphological changes and
environmental features thoroughly for some
land improving applications;
- monitor some morphological changes over
the Danube Delta and the Black Sea coastal
areas;
- establish indices monitoring environmen-
tal elements within the fish breeding ponds;
- collect and evaluate the Remote Sensing
thematic data proper to a deltaic area, to
establish the environmental parameters, as
well as, to intergrate them into the Land
Information System - the Danube Delta;
- make operational an information system
based on satellite and aerial Remote Sensing
data over the Danube Delta and the Black
Sea coastal areas.
In the last two years, the I.6.F.C.0.T. has
managed the cooperation with other specia-
lized institutes on a LIS/GIS - the Danube
Delta achievement, using a 1:10,000 scale
photomap, as the future requirements could
not be based only on classical cartographic
products. The information capacity to be
used within LIS/GIS - The Danube Delta
amounts to 4.106.
A Danube Delta Pilot Project for scales
smaller than 1:10,000 is to be carried out
by 1.6.N. France International, 1.G.F.C.0.7.
(Romania) and SCOT Conseil (France). This
pilot project is to compile the Danube
Delta 1:50,000 scale map using digital SPOT
multispectral image processing. That map
is to be used in land cover classification
and evaluation, and as a digital map for
LIS/GIS - the Danube Delta, as well.
EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
Owing to the present-day concerns of some
Commission VI specialists, as well as, to
our production state during this inter-con-
gress period, the main S.R.F.T. objectives
have envisaged: (1) our photogrammetrist and
remote sensing operator training, especially
on terrestrial photogrammetry; (2) tests on
photogrammetry-remote sensing subjects;
(3) technology for photogrammetry - remote
sensing.
During 1989-1992, the researching activity
has focussed on some experimental works
based on national and regional topics:
(1) Photomap compilation for land fund and
environmental researching activities (1989,
1990, 1991, 1992); (2) Pollution effect mo-
nitoring over the agricultural areas adjacent
to some industrial works (1989); (3) Study
on the methodology establishing forestry
cover within pastures (1990); (4) A Remote
Sensing study on irrigation systems (1990);
(5) Aerial and space multispectral images
in establishing agricultural lands with
moisture in excess (1990); (6) Thematic map-
ping using space photographs (1991); (7) A
LIS/GIS-The Danube Delta development (1991,
1992); (8) Photomap regarded as an instrument
restoring the land fund (1992).
It is worth mentioning the periodical scien-
tific meetings: (1) the 3-1d Geodetic Meeting
(Bucharest, 1988); (2) The Romanian and
French Symposium (Bucharest, 1991); (3)
Yearly I.G.F.C.D.T. and D.T.M. Meetings
(1989-1992). Among S.R.F.T. meetings, in
which researchers, teaching staff, photo-
grammetrists and Remote Sensing specialists
have taken an active part, we can mention:
The 12-th and the 13-th Commission V Symposia
(held in Bucharest, 1989 and Suceava,1991)
on "Special Photogrammetric Application Ef-
ficiencies" and "Photogrammetric and Remote
Sensing Technics in Environmental Engineering",
respectively.
Several subjects approached within these
last symposia are given below: non-metric
aerial camera calibration; photogrammetry
and remote sensing in forestry applications;
architectural photogrammetry and urbanism;
photogrammetry in hydropower construction
and management; photogrammetric and remote
sensing applications in land improvement;
environmental engineering and rural planning;
photogrammetric procedures in communication
ways; open and underground mining based on
photointerpretation, photointerpretation
related to historical monuments, settle-
ments and sites.
Besides the above mentioned activities we
can also mention the followings: (a) The
Romanian Commission of the Architectural
Photogrammetry has been established; (b) A
cooperation with the Italian Photogramme-
tric Commission in Bari has been agreed
upon.
We have been concerned to further input
data into I.G.F.C.0.T. GEOBIB data base for
bibliographical information retrieval.
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