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the most detailed information, from the most important to 
complementary information. Each matrix element shall 
contain also quality information: on the source of data, 
accuracy, reliability, date of validity and date of input, 
expected rate of change, etc., where it applies to the 
topic, of course. 
Sections: 
Section 1 should contain general basic information about 
the country. Number of inhabitants, area, demoscopic 
data, etc. This is necessary for the computation of proper 
weights. 
Section 2 should contain basic information on the pro- 
fessional bodies (schools, universities and R&D 
institutes, governmental production and administration 
units, private production units) in the fields of 
photogrammetry, remote sensing, GIS, and should show 
the state of these fields in production, education and 
training, research and development. The following sub- 
sections could be considered: 
2.1 Institution and employment 
2.2 Equipment and software 
2.3 Applications 
2.4 lmages 
2.5 Research projects 
2.6 Education and training 
2.7 Manpower 
2.8 Others 
Section 3 should be a presentation of the cooperation 
and the information exchange activities of the members, 
of their various establishments and their National Society: 
3.1 Organization and structure of the Member 
Society, its Working Groups, branches, a.s.o. 
3.2 Relations and dependencies between the 
Member Society and others within its country. 
3.3 Cooperations of local institutions within the 
country's borders and across the borders. 
3.4. Activities in international bodies and commis- 
sions. 
3.5. Others. 
Section 4 could be a presentation of publications and 
editorial activities withinin the Member's territory, and 
publishing activities performed abroad by the local 
experts or local organisations. 
4.1. Editorial activities of members within the Mem- 
ber Society's territory: Scientific/technical 
journals and permanent editorial series, books 
and booklets, articles, maps and others. 
4.2. Foreign editorial activities of local specialists 
and organisations: Foreign journals and 
permanent editorial series which accept 
articles, foreign issues of books and booklets, 
articles published abroad, and others. 
4.3. Others. 
The decision about the Sections is a matter to be care- 
fully prepared after a study of former Member Reports 
and after definition of future needs. This will be the task 
of the Working Group on Member Reports during the 
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next one or two years, once Council and General 
Assembly of ISPRS have agreed to the proposals made. 
Propositions are presented later in this paper. 
Levels: 
Data presented in each section should be divided into 
three levels of layers according to the degree of de- 
mand and importance for ISPRS of certain type of in- 
formation. 
Level A 
Level A is general information of the first order of impor- 
tance necessary for basic understanding, needed by 
ISPRS in order to fulfil its tasks. This part requires pre- 
organisation and will be arranged in form of a question- 
naire with a set of instructions, questions, some numeri- 
cal tables, etc. 
Level B 
Level B is providing more detailed information, un- 
generalized, specific, exact, or general information of a 
second order of importance. That more particular level 
of the questionnaire is arranged the same way as level A. 
Level B may be subdivided into two parts, B1 and B2. 
Level A should be the obligatory part, Level B1 should 
not be obligatory, but most strongly recommended for 
completion by a member, while the Level B2 would be 
proposed as of third order of importance. 
Level C 
Level C is the descriptive part giving explanation, com- 
plementary information voluntarily selected by a Member, 
added to the entries of the questions of levels A and B of 
the questionnaire. Here can find room also supplemen- 
tary information concerning other specific problems 
recognised by a Member as being important and 
placed by the author in one of the subsections ,others” 
(these subsections does have neither level A nor 
level B). At level C the information may consist of 
commentaries and/or additional numerical tables (which 
can also be furnished with commentaries). There is no 
limitation for the amount of data given at that level of a 
Member Report. 
Level A should be of a rather limited volume. That would 
encourage reporting even by those Members who were 
not publishing Member Reports before. The level A (as 
well as level B) data must include parts in a form ready 
for further automatic processing, to produce the 
general image of ISPRS. 
The authors recommend to select and to subdivide the 
content of the Member Reports in such a way, that the 
anticipated general image of the International Society 
would be complete from the level A. 
Individual images of Member Societies should be detailed 
enough to produce synthetic comparisons, to develop 
predictions for selected multinational regions, and to 
show bilateral and multilateral cooperation fields and 
potentials to individual and rather isolated Members. 
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