Professeur H. CURIEN 
Il est certainement trés utile, en effet, de sensibiliser à nos méthodes les 
professeurs de l'enseignement secondaire, en particulier les professeurs de 
géographie. 
E. MERRITT 
I am Earl MERRITT from the Earth Satellite Corporation in Washington DC, and I 
would like to perhaps raise what is a heretical proposal in this group of eminent 
researchers : that the Society should begin to think about things that the 
meteorological satellite community has already started to think about : that 
is onboard processing to provide certain kinds of data monitoring the environment 
and I think this Society would be a good focus to begin to think about what 
were those collected items that could be properly analyzed onboard the satellite 
and transmitted as a theme to the Earth. 
FZODOVLE 
With respect to the last two questions, I think that the Society does a reasona- 
bly good job of making its information available. We publish Archives of the 
Congress and Commission Symposia which are available to anyone. Many of the 
Member organizations publish journals which make our information, our conclu- 
sions, our technologies, our methodologies, available. I think it is asking too 
much that the Society should go into the geography departments and teach the 
teachers of geography. I think it is incumbent upon teachers in geography, in 
land use planning, or in architecture to make themselves aware of what techni- 
ques are available to them through photogrammetry and remote sensing. I don't 
think we can go in to thé various colleges and beat on somebody from the top 
and say "you must include this in your programm." It has to come the other way. 
The teachers have to become aware of what is available and include it in their 
programms. The information is available to anyone who wants to go out and look 
for it. 
With regard to the second question about onboard processing. There is indeed an 
effort being directed towards that objective. You may be aware of the experiment 
which was called "Feature Identification and Location Experiment" (FILE). It was 
carried on the second Shuttle mission and will probably be carried again on 
mission number 17. This was an attempt to take ratios of two spectral bands on 
board the satellite in order to determine very simple classifications of water, 
bare land, andvegetation. We are really an infant profession and we are learning. 
You should not expect all the answers to become available at one time. 
With respect to Mr. Ulliman's comment about workshops for open discussion, I 
would like to say that at the Rio Congress the general plan is to have at least 
one full technical session, with simultaneous translation, for each of the some 
forty working groups that exist in the Society. In addition to that, however, 
there is ample time and ample space available at the Rio Congress Center for any 
working group to hold as many sessions as it wants independently. One of the 
reasons that we are meeting next week with the Council and the Commission Presi- 
dents is to get from them an idea of how many special sessions they want for 
each of their technical commissions. There wil] be lots of time for talk, lots 
of space for talk and it is going to be up to the Commission Presidents and 
Working Group Chairmen to organize what you want to discuss. We will make the 
time and space available to you. ^ 
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