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RAPPORT DE SYNTHESE DU GROUPE DE TRAVAIL VII-7 
W. G. VII-7 Report 
"OCEANOGRAPHIE ET ZONES COTIERES" 
"Oceanography and coastal zone" 
par / by 
H. OCHIAI 
K.A. ULBRICHT 
A) DEVELOPMENT OF GROUP 
  
A Working Group of Commission VII, n°4, entitled "Oceanography and Sea Ice", 
was founded under the auspices of Professor Dr. G. HILDEBRANDT at the 1978 
Commission VII symposium on "Remote Sensing for Observation and Inventory of 
Earth Resources and the Endangered Environment". 
Founding the group were Professor H.G. GIERLOFF-EMDEN of Munich, Germany, 
Professeor FRASSETTO of Venice, Italy, Doctor C. ROMEO-NEDWED of Barcelona, 
Spain, Doctor R. THOREN of Stockholm, Sweden, Doctor K.A. ULBRICHT of 
Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, and a few other interested persons. 
With a few hundred letters mailed around the world, H.G. GIERLOFF-EMDEN and 
K.A. ULBRICHT made publicity for the newly founded group and asked for papers 
for the 1980 Hamburg ISP Congress. This proved to be very successful, as can be 
seen from the Hamburg conference proceedings. In Hamburg, DR K.A. ULBRICHT was 
made chairman of the group, with PROF H.G. GIERLOFF-EMDEN and PROF FRASSETTO 
being co-chairman. 
After the routine change of presidency of Commission VII from PROF HILDEBRANDT 
to MR L. LAIDET of Toulouse, France, MR LAIDET generally kept the partitioning 
of Commission VII, however, decided to split up the working group "Oceanography 
and Sea Ice" into two groups : "Oceanography and Coastal Zone" being working 
group 7 and "Ice and Snow", working group 8. 
Working group 7 is now co-chaired by DR H. OCHIAI of Japan, and DR K.A. ULBRICHT 
of Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, the latter one representing more the European 
part of the Community. 
The group 7 of Commission VII now is so well established, that we did have no 
trouble getting papers of good quality, and we registered 19 papers for 
working group 7, of which 3 papers were given to other working groups because 
of conflicting topics.