The WG Chairman (Dr. Sanjib Ghosh of Canada) took upon himself the task of "Promotion 
and development of education, particularly in developing countries''. 
On a closer study of the current status of education in photogrammetry and remote sensing, 
one can realize that there exists an immediate need of developmental promotional assistance in 
three areas in the World, viz., 
1) TheS. E. Asian countries; 
2) The south and central American countries; and 
3) The African countries, in general , 
In view.of this promotional task, a committee (sub-working group) of 5 colleagues in each of 
the above three regions has been formed. These groups are significantly represenxative in terms of 
their institutions and in terms of their expertise. A list of the members is appended to this report. 
Recent United Nations’ studies on the status of mapping in the world (World Cartography, 
vol. XVII, 1983 — — UN Publication no. ST/ESA/SER. L/17) and the efforts of ISPRS WG VI—1 
(Chairman: Dr. A. J. Brandenberger) indicate that Photogrammetry has reached an effective level 
of efficiency and will remain for years to come the most efficient base technique for producing 
topographical and other maps from both aircraft and satellite base imageries. This technology must 
be maintained, understood and promoted until something better comes forward, if at all, to rep- 
lace it as the main tool in the domain of S & M. 
It is also evident that photogrammetry and remote sensing, regarded in the past two decades 
as two separate disciplines, are coming closer. They are emerging as one ex tended discipline, shar- 
ing common technological challenges with respect to data acquisition, data processing, data anal- 
ysis, instrumentation and application. 
These will undoubtedly have strong influence on future approaches taken in education. These 
would even necessitate a complete re-structuring of the curricula and course patterns in our insti- 
tutions, The traditional educational links between engineering and S & M have been strong in the 
past few decades. These seem to continue but with less emphasis. Nevertheless, the alliance that 
visibly started during the 1950s — the alliance with scientific disciplines concerned with resources 
and planning, need to be further forged. These disciplines are going to be more important users of 
our services in the decades to come. 
We are in a time of rapid change. This necessitates that our education should have two general 
components. Firstly, it should provide the education of ‘know-how’, Secondly, it should be direc: 
ted toward equipping the graduate with the materials of change in order to keep up with the 
advances of technology, user expectations and intricacies of disciplines other than ours wherein 
our services and products will have to be integrated. 
The technology continues to change, with the digital computer playing the key role, at the pre- 
sent time. Continuous observation of the earth from orbiting satellites is a reality, as are on-line 
computer assisted mapping and on-the-job system calibration, amongst others. We have witnessed 
during the past three decades a shift in photogrammetry from an analog-based discipline to one 
which is digitaily (or analytically) based. Considerable advancement in applications of software 
is expected. We are seeing now the beginning in the development of instrumentation for processing 
digital imagery, either original records created by array cameras or derived images by scanning 
conventicnal frames photographs. The end result would give a unique blend of the digital process- 
ing techniques of photogrammetry and the digital image analysis techniques of remote sensing. 
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