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to the tasks of the 7 Commissions of ISPRS. It is considered that the 
quite variable forms in which National Reports have been presented in 
the past make it difficult to yield a maximum of usefulness to the 
readers of the reports. This handicap could be avoided if all National 
Reports would be pres-ented in a more homogeneous form, i.e. , in a 
somewhat standardized and sufficiently concentrated form. 
To tackle the problem of National Reports, the Commission VI 
Board established after the 1988 Kyoto ISPRS Congress a special ''Task 
Force on National Reports LTF: National ReportsJ”, a task force which 
would be in charge of studying the problem and eventually to come up 
with some guidelines for the preparers of the National Reports, guide 
lines which might result in a somewhat standardized form of the Nation 
al Reports. 
To work out some kind of guidelines for the preparation of future 
National Reports the Task Force considered it necessary to consult the 
pertinent National Organizations through the National Reporters to 
ISPRS Commission VI. In order to facilitate this task a special ques 
tionnaire has been prepared by the Task Force and mailed to the Nation 
al Reporters. This questionnaire contains 9 questions as follows: 
1. Should the scheme of the National Report be prepared according 
to the tasks of the Commissions of ISPRS [report first on ac 
tivity belonging to Commission I, then Commission II, etc.] or 
on other schemes? 
yes: no: 
2. Should separate Annexes to the National Report be accepted 
[copies of satellite images, photographs, maps, brochures, pros 
pectus, announcements, reprints, etc.]? 
yes: no: 
3. Should National Reports include an Abstract and/or biographic 
sketches of the preparers? 
yes: no: