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Both institutes and firms are involved in research. Four
photogrammetrists work at the Institute for Surveying and
Photogrammetry at the Faculty of Civil and Geodetic
Engineering. Most of their research is undertaken in the
building of 3 D architectural models and the collection of
photogrammetric data. Research is financed by the Office
of cultural heritage of the Republic of Slovenia and the
Office of monument building and restoration.
They use an analog Topcart machine, high capacity PCs
and in 1996 they bought an accurate analytic PROMAP
machine. They use Orient, Scop, DMS and Acad software
and they write additional programs to make the regular
software more powerful. Employees at the Institute for
Surveying and Photogrammetry also work as assistants
at the faculty. They undertake Post graduate studies at
the Department of Photogrammetry and Cartography and
at international seminars and courses.
The Slovenian Forestry Institute carries out research in
the use of photogrammetric images for producing forest
maps. They also study how to evaluate damage in forests
disasters. The research is requested and then paid for by
the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. Research on the
forest quality based on the IR images was financed by the
Ministry for Science and Technology.
There are eight employees working on photogrammetry
and remote sensing. They are also included professors
and assistants at the Biotechnical Faculty. The equipment
which they use is mostly linked to powerful PCs and work
stations. They use APY for stereorestitution, PCI and
DMS for orthophoto maps. For the orientation they use
GPS receivers.
2.3. Projects
In Slovenia, photogrammetric images are acquired
methodically by aerophotographing. The CAS project
(cyclic aerophotographing of Slovenia) has been put into
operation. Images from the whole territory of Slovenia are
to be taken within three years. The project started in
1984. For the last two cycles the scale of photographing
has been the same for the whole area, 1 : 17 500.
The CAS project is financed by the Surveying and
Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia.
Furthermore, it also finances the elaboration of digital
orthophoto maps. Series production started in 1994.
According to official recording up to now 209 sheets or 7
per cent of Slovenia have been covered. In 1996 200 new
sheets shall be produced.
Photogrammetric projects are carried out by two
institutes, the Monolit company and the Institute of
Geodesy of the Republic of Slovenia.
The Slovenian Forestry Institute carries out projects by
using photogrammetric images for producing forest maps
Which are used in the administration of forests
and space planing projects.
The Institute for Surveying and Photogrammetry at the
Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering is mostly active
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in the field of production and maintenance of topographic
plans and maps, photogrammetric measurements of
architectural buildings, projects of industrial
photogrammetry and other nontopographic applications.
The Monolit company is specialized in information
systems (GIS) which are present in the market. They
employed two photogrammetrists who elaborate expert's
and study reports and other projects. For the time being
they mostly work in the field of digital orthophoto maps
from images taken by cyclic aerophotographing or images
taken by Russian satellites. In their work they use
software from Orient, Dopp, Intergraph modelar and own
programs.
The Institute for Geodesy is the biggest company dealing
with geodesy and photogrammetry as the number of
employees is concerned. There are twenty two
employees working in the field of photogrammetry.
They have the biggest production and maintenance of
topographic plans and maps from, photogrammetry in
Slovenia and do research only within an own research
department which means a research unit for production
purposes. They do both technological research and
development of own solutions. The Institute for Geodesy
carries out all photogrammetric works.
They dispose of their own aerophotographing staff who is
equipped with three cameras and two airplanes. Their
equipment also includes several analog stereorestitution
instruments (Wild), analytic stereorestitution instruments
(Leica SD2000), a digital station (Leica Hellava DSW100,
DPW770) and software of Kork. They use a UMK 10/1318
camera for terrestrial photogrammetry.
Staff members are trained at the Faculty of Civil and
Geodetic Engineering, post graduate studies are
undertaken in seminars, conventions and other
workshops.
3. REMOTE SENSING
3.1. Education
There is no special education in remote sensing, except
for post graduate studies where individual programs are
implemented. Post graduate studies in this field may be
attended at the Biotechnical Faculty - the Department for
Forestry, at the Office for Statistics of the Republic of
Slovenia and the Center for Scientific Research of the
Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts.
Further education is acquired on international congresses
and seminars.
3.2. Research
Research is done by the Office for Statistics of the
Republic of Slovenia, the Center for Scientific Research
of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts
and the Slovenian Forestry Institute.
The Office for Statistics of the Republic of Slovenia is a
government institution dealing with remote sensing,
especially in the field of data distribution theories. There
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