3.1 Meetings 
. ASPRS continues to host its annual conventions with the 
American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM), 
while the GIS/LIS conference is now sponsored by six 
member associations. Table 3 portrays the major meetings 
sponsored or cosponsored by ASPRS for the years 1992- 
1996. Attendance at the annual meetings has declined 
compared to the 1988-1991 time period, while GIS/LIS 
meeting attendance has tended to plateau. This decline or 
lack of growth is most likely the result of several factors 
such as, competition from software user group meetings and 
the saturation of the market with similar meetings, fluctua- 
tions in the economy, government downsizing, maturation 
of the core disciplines, and basic changes in professional 
and personal paradigms. However, two recent ASPRS 
specialty conferences have been major successes in the 
aspects of attendance, technical program, exhibit and at- 
tendee/vendor satisfaction. This may indicate that more 
focused meetings and strategic alliances with varied sets of 
sponsoring partners may be a better model to meet the needs 
of the mapping sciences profession in the future. 
  
3.2 Publications 
ASPRS continues to have an active publications program, 
which is one of the main avenues used to keep members and 
non-members informed about the Society and the profes- 
sion. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 
(PE&RS), the Society's monthly journal, continues to im- 
prove and most of the backlog of approved articles has been 
published. The following is a list of major publications 
since the XVII ISPRS Congress in 1992: The Glossary of 
the Mapping Sciences, International Symposium on Spatial 
Accuracy of Natural Resource Data Bases, Pecora 12: 
Land Information from Space-Based Systems, Mapping & 
Remote Sensing Tools for the 21st Century, 15th Biennial 
Color Workshop, 14th Biennial Workshop on Color Aerial 
Photography and Videography for Resource Monitoring, 
The GIS Applications Book: Examples in Natural Resources, 
ISPRS Commission IV: Proceedings of the Symposium on 
Mapping and GIS, AutoCarto XI, Annual Proceedings for 
'03, '94, '95, and '96, GIS/LIS '92, '93, '04, '905, Land 
Satellite Information in the Next Decade Proceedings and 
Data Notebook, Decision Support 2001, Mobile Mapping 
Table 3. Major ASPRS Sponsored and Co-Sponsored Meetings, 1992-1996. 
  
Title Location 
  
1992 
Annual Meeting & Convention 
Global Change & XVII ISPRS 
GIS/LIS San Jose, California 
1993 
Annual Meeting & Convention 
GIS/LIS Minneapolis, Minnesota 
1994 
Annual Meeting & Convention 
Mapping & Remote Sensing Tools 
Albuquerque, New Mexico 
Washington, D.C. 
New Orleans, Louisiana 
Reno, Nevada 
Washington, D.C. 
Sponsor(s 
ASPRS & ACSM 
ASPRS, ISPRS & RTI 
ASPRS, ACSM, URISA, 
AAG & AM/FM 
ASPRS & ACSM 
ASPRS, ACSM, URISA, 
AAG & AM/FM 
ASPRS & ACSM 
ASPRS & MAPPS 
for 21st Century 
GIS/LIS Phoenix, Arizona ASPRS, ACSM, URISA, 
AAG & AM/FM 
1995 
Annual Meeting & Convention 
Land Satellite Information it the Next Decade Vienna, Virginia 
Charlotte, North Carolina 
ASPRS & ACSM 
ASPRS, NASA, NOAA & 
USGS 
GIS/LIS Nashville, Tennessee ASPRS, ACSM, URISA, 
AAG, AM/FM & APWA 
1996 
Annual Meeting & Convention Baltimore, Maryland ASPRS & ACSM 
GIS/LIS Denver, Colorado ASPRS, 
International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Vol. XXXI, Part B6. Vienna 1996 
ACSM, URISA, AAG, AM/ 
FM & APWA 
  
     
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