- 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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