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Table 1. Member Professional Specialization*
tions by professional field are shown in Table 1. and
indicates the predominance of members are involved in
Field of Specialization Number
Photogrammetry 382
Remote Sensing 575
Surveying 169
GIS 571
GPS 161
Other 100
* Data from 1994/95 paid member demographics
database
ASPRS members are organized geographically into 17
regions, each with its own committees, technical and social
programs and locally elected officers and Regional Direc-
tor, who serves on the national Board of Directors. Until
just recently there were 18 regions, but at the request of the
affected regions the Texas-Louisiana Region merged with
national committees and three joint national committees,
the latter of which address joint Society matters with our
sister Society American Congress of Surveying and Map-
ping (ACSM). Table 2 shows the current makeup of
divisions, committees and joint committees. More specific
information on activities of some of these entities is in-
cluded in other sections of the report. In addition, it should
be noted that Electronic Communications Committee is
completely new and tasked with taking the Society forward
in the areas of using Internet and other communications
technologies. The Data Preservation and Archiving Com-
mittee is the result of reengineering the former Preservation
of Aerial Photography Committee and it has a new, ex-
panded mission. The Strategic Planning Committee has
replaced the former Long Range Planning Committee,
while Satellite Mapping and Remote Sensing Committee is
no longer a joint committee with ACSM.
3. SERVICE SECTORS
As indicated in the last national report to ISPRS the “look
and feel” of ASPRS continues to evolve in response to the
Table 2. ASPRS National Committees/Divisions & ASPRS/ACSM Joint Committees*
Divisions:
Geographic Information Systems* ^ Photogrammetric Applications*
Professional Practice*
National Committees:
Awards Bylaws
Division Directors
Inter-Organization Liaison
Journal Policy
Memorial Lecture* Nominating
Professional Conduct Public Relations
Satellite Mapping and
Remote Sensing
Scholarship*
Student Activities*
Joint Committees:
Convention Advisory Government Affairs
Electronic Communications*
Workshop Coordination
Primary Data Acquisition
Remote Sensing Applications
. Environment
Evaluation for Certification*
Membership
Data Preservation and
Archiving*
Publications
Strategic Planning
Sustaining Members
* portion of report contained elsewhere in this Nation Report
the Mid-South Region. New student chapters have been
formed or reactivated at Michigan State University, Uni-
versity of Connecticut, University of Florida, University of
Massachusetts, and University of South Florida since 1992.
The professional interests of the membership are primarily
served by five divisions, while many of the programmatic
activities of the Society are administered through the 20
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overarching responsibility to meet the needs of a multi-
sector professional Society involved in fields of rapidly
changing technology and burgeoning applications. Strate-
gic planningis helping ASPRS create new opportunities and
services for it members. Nevertheless, the basic service
sectors of the Society continue to be meetings, publications
and member services.
