- not to limit the action of working groups to a rather 
boring administrative job^ to deal with one or two items of 
particular interest, with more time available than it is possible 
in a large quadrennial congress. By the way, let me add that 
Prof. Gottfried Konecny, the 1980 Congress Director^will explain 
you later on, how it will be possible for each Commission to 
have much more time at its disposal than it has in official 
sessions, thanks to poster sessions. 
The leadership of Commission VI was given to Poland by a vote 
of the General Assembly in Helsinki, two years ago. The more of you 
remember that our Polish Member Body chaired Commission VI for the 
period 1972-1976 and even earlier. Unfortunately, its President, Prof. 
Stompke, died in 1974. Later on, Prof. Sitek was appointed as the 
chairman of Commission VI and the good work he then carried on, 
together with Dr. Jachimski, in a short time preceeding the 1976 
Congress, lead the General Assembly to entrust Poland again with the 
charge of the Commission. 
As it is for the other technical commissions, since a rather 
•recent time, the Council insisted to obtain that, whatever the Member 
Body in charge of a technical commission is, the chairmanship of a 
part of the working groups be given to colleagues from other couniries. 
So, the scientific activity of the commissions is extended to a much 
larger number of Countries than seven. 
One of the main goals the present ISP Council has to reach is 
to reinforce the links that have existed from long (well before the 
creation of the ISP Commission VII the 19t>2 Congress, in Washington) 
between photogrammetry and photo-interpretation, quite' naturally 
extended to remote sensing, later on. Obviously, that is the common 
interest of both these applied sciences. Commission VII, meeting in 
Freiburg, West Germany, in the early days of July, which is completely 
devoted to remote sensing, and Commission III, last week in Moscow, 
adopted a resolution inviting the ISP Council to propose the 1980 
General Assembly that the name of the Society be turned to "Inter 
national Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing" and urging 
the Technical Commissions other than VII to increase the part of remote 
sensing in their activities. Secretary General Frederick Doyle will 
explain it to you better than I do and ask your vote to support the 
Council’s action before the present symposium closes. 
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