In his paper From Photogrammetry to Iconic The name "photogrammetry" is well 
  
   
Informatics (Li, 1992) Li reviews the established and well understood within the 
development of photogrammetry and remote Surveying and Mapping community. This 
sensing and the increasing combination and ISPRS Congress is testimony to that. Any 
integration with geographic information name change will refer more to the combined 
System The conclusion he draws is that disciplines of GIS/LIS, remote sensing and 
photogrammetry has now passed on from a photogrammetry together with certain 
classical geometric science to the domain aspects of computer science rather than 
of information science. Li reports that referring to photogrammetry specifically. 
Professor Wang of China has suggested on 
numerous occasions the term Iconic The undergraduate courses at both RMIT and 
Informatics, a branch of modern information QUT are about surveying and cartography. 
science, as the new name. A definition of Photogrammetry forms part of these courses 
Iconic Informatics is as follows (Li, and is not a degree course in itself. 
1992): Accordingly, the authors are of the opinion 
that, at least for the time being, 
"A discipline concerned with the "photogrammetry" or "photogrammety and 
recording, storage, measurement, remote sensing" should be retained to 
processing, interpretation, analysis, describe the discipline area. 
administration, presentation and 
display of the image data and How the subject should be taught and 
information of physical objects and incorporated | into the courses is a 
their environments acquired by  non- different matter and is discussed under 
contact sensor systems". Teaching Strategies. 
The components and flowchart of iconic 
informatics from Li's paper is reproduced e object re-construction 
here as it very neatly shows the e image matching 
comprehensive relationship between e image analysis 
photogrammetry, remote sensing and e high accuracy point determination 
geographical information systems in a e image interpretation 
graphical format. e knowledge based system 
e expert systems 
e machine vision 
e sensor e computer science 
  
    
  
e platform 
e imaging mechanism 
image data 
photographs 
digital images 
multi-spectral images 
colour/imagery 
infra-red colour imagery 
near, far infra-red imagery / 
radar imagery / 
special images 
     
            
    
    
      
     
   
  
Q 
Yo 
A 
2 
= > © 
> 
  
  
analog | Visual E 
© photogrammetry | interpretation 
of remotely 
     
    
  
  
    
     
   
    
    
    
    
  
   
    
     
   
  
      
   
     
   
     
  
  
  
     
        
        
    
  
     
   
  
  
    
  
other data & 
; ; feed-back and information pen 5 \ 
Extra-terrestrial objects 16 obiects coming. from digital representation 
Earth surface E i DEM 
Industrial products through physical objects DOM 
i and environment 
PERI GAD/GAM.ctG, e s Digitising digital landscape models 
digital 
Biology e Pattern quai Mans 
    
r nition digital ortho/photo 
eco 
gai co GIS 
   
    
  
    
  
e spatial analysis 
e GIS applications 
visual 
representations 
& products 
topographic maps 
thematic maps 
profile, perspective 
ortho/photo maps 
video products 
statistics 
    
computer graphics 
map generalisation 
raster data output 
image data output 
  
     
® 0 0 0 
  
    
    
      
Fig. 1 Components and Flowchart of Iconic 
Informatics ( after Li, 1992 ) 
303