environment has been developed and installed in universities in 
order to support education and assessments in visual 
interpretations on information content of different aerospace 
imageries with special emphasis on features like atmospheric 
pollution, man made objects, water and vegetation. 
As a unique service in Hungary, the FSMI's browse room facility 
provides consultancy and application support, publishes 
newsletters, ensures access to technical information, microfiche, 
videos, on-line catalogue and publications. Know—how/technology 
transfer is based on commercial agreements. According to the 
international acceptance and recommendations, F<5MI generates 
standard and value-added products using analog, digital and 
hybrid techniques: 
— 800/1600/6250 bpi digitally S/C data on CCTs/f1oppies, 
— preprocessed data products (rad/geom corrected, enhanced, 
multitemporal/multiplatform image registration, indices), 
— advanced products using DTM, geocoded auxilliary data, GIS and 
access to an interactive image analysis workstation. 
As a result of earlier promotion activity in remote sensing and 
despite of the rapid developments in the civil Earth observing 
satellite systems, the topographic maps in 1:10 000 and 1:25 000 
scale and the metric aerial photographs are not classified 
anymore in Hungary. 
Based on ten years of experience, postgraduate courses are 
organized by the Chair of Photogrammetry at the Budapest 
University of Technology. Moreover, at least five additional 
education institutions having graduate and/or postgraduate course 
related to remote sensing. In 1989, a Chair of Spatial 
Informatics and RS has been established by the University of 
Forestry and Timber at Sz^kesfeh^rvcir using the facilities and 
expertise of FoMI RSC. 
Remote sensing is also lectured for agricultural managers and 
will be introduced on the annual international postgraduate 
course organized by VITUKI under UNESCO sponsorship since 1966. 
Finally, it should be mentioned, several symposia and conferences 
with international participation have been organized in the last 
five years. The next internationa1 workshop will be devoted to 
U RS and GIS technology in Agriculture", probably under the 
auspices of FA0 and MoA. A multilingual dictionary on RS has been 
recently published by the Hungarian Astronautica1 Society. 
Based on this multilingual dictionary, a version in Hungarian 
language has been edited and published by FoMI RSC for its 
customers and university students. 
As conclusion, it can be stated, although there is an increased 
demand for timely, cost-effective, comprehensive and reliable 
information on the changing environment, and the utilization of 
remotely sensed data is slowly gaining more and more recognition, 
there are still difficulties in the practical implementation. In 
order to meet the requirements, continuous coordinated efforts 
and international frameworks are needed taking into account the 
national priorities, technical feasibilities and potential 
beneficiaries. 
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