Mr. President of the Int orncit iona 1 Society of Phot ogr ammo try and 
Remote Sensing. 
Mr. Secretary General of the Academy of Athens arid Secretary 
General for Research and Technology of the Ministry of Industry 
Energy and Tec hn o1ogy o f G ree c e. 
Mr. Governor of Dodecanese. 
Mr. Mayor of the City of Rhodes.. 
Mr. President of the Hellenic Cadastral and Mapping Organization 
of Greece . 
Distinguished Guests and Co 11©agues. 
Ladies and Gentlemen. 
It is a great pleasure to welcome you, on behalf of the N.T.U. 
Athens, to the Rhodes Symposium on Modern Trends of Education in 
Pho t ogrammet ry and R emo t e,Se nsing. 
Being myself a Geodesist, I am very happy and proud to be- here 
for the opening Ceremony and the works of a Symposium organized 
by colleagues and friends together with which we have tried all 
these passed years to promote the Subjects of Geodetic Sciences 
and to give a better quality of Education to our Students in 
Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing as well as in 
Geographic Information Systems (G.I.S.) and Land Information 
Systems (L.I.S.). 
As you well know, Greece has the tradition in Sciences. From the 
very old years the Greek Scientists and Philosophers played the 
leading role and having a lot of imagination they managed quite 
well to give the image of the Earth's Surface on a plane paper. 
In other words they did a. very good Job in mapping.