MURAL 
As I am General Secretary of ISPR3 my task is to 
communicate with member countries, as a matter or fact our Society 
consists of 82 member countries Yet, only with 40% of them we. 
manage to correspond rapidly; with the rest we have very bad contacts 
This fact can be easily seen here: thirty one developing countries are 
registered as members of our Society and despite the fact that the 
symposium was of great importance, especially for them, almost no 
Asian has managed to come here. If we look at the member list we see 
that only 48 member countries out of 82 have a society, 24 of them 
fully cover the subject Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, the rest 
cover either Photogrammetry or Remote Sensing 34 member countries 
have no societies at all, so govermental institutions are registered as 
members and most of these are oriented to words surveying and 
mapping not including RS. All these countries need more educational 
chances and more communication with ISPRS. Another thing is that not 
all member countries are paying or are interested in buying the ISPRS 
Journal. 
If we come now to the Asian Assosi3tion on RS we can say 
that we can report good communications between the 15 member 
countries and we have had, every year since 1980, an Asian conference 
on RS. This year the 11th conference is going to be held in China and it 
will have about 450-500 patricipants, which is quite a good rate. The 
developing countries in Asia request more educational training 
especially in computer processing and digital image processing in RS 
and GIS especially on PC based technology, host of the Asian countries 
have PC's, except very few countries (Vietnam and Mongolia) but there 
is a problem with software. Many commersial companies sell very 
expensive packages always black box, so perhaps ISPRS or Com VI could 
give a support by offering free software to developing countries. My 
laboratory is now distributing free GIS programme and DTM 
programmes and also the Japamse government is now distributing a RS 
software package. Also, there is a need for on job training on the 
computers. So I would recommend, as a dream, that voluntieer teams 
for tutorials go there with their computers maybe for one or two 
weeks each to train people who cannot come to the conferences. 
KIEFER; 
Since l am the last speaker most of the thoughts l wrote 
down yesterday have already been covered by other speakers. Anyway 
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