Modern trends of education in photogrammetry & remote sensing

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Persistent identifier:: 856467936

Title:: Modern trends of education in photogrammetry & remote sensing

Sub title:: ISPRS Commission VI Symposium, September 13 - 16, 1990, Rhodes Island, Greece

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (251 Seiten)

Year of publication:: 1990

Place of publication:: Athens

Publisher of the original:: Technical Chamber of Greece

Identifier (digital):: 856467936

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Language:: English

Usage licence:: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Publisher of the digital copy:: Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover

Place of publication of the digital copy:: Hannover

Year of publication of the original:: 2016

Document type:: Monograph

Collection:: Earth sciences

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Title:: Information retrieval and Technical Co-operation (WG's Vi/4, VI/5 and WG VI/6).

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Title:: PROPOSED ISPRS PARTICIPATION IN AN INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATION RECYCLING PROGRAMME. Ann Stewart.

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-162 Some of my worries were real, others were not. His most useful infor mation was that there are any number of professional organizations who are actively involved in publication recycling programmes. The list includes the American Association for the Advancement of Science (which concentrates on sub-Saharan Africa), The World Scientific Press in Singapore, the International Atomic Energy Agency, Unesco, the' Physical Society of Japan, the International Union of Biochemistry, and many more. To avoid duplication of efforts and to optimize finan cié 1 ! resources, most of these programmes are being coordinated through the Third World Academy of Science- (TWAS) in Trieste. In the end, some materials are actually shipped to Trieste and transhipped from there to the recipients. This seemed like a splendid solution to what was beginning to appear as an oversized undertaking, so I got in touch with the people in Trieste, explaining that we have a slight problem with remote sensing literature. Whereas TWAS is trying to concentrate of establishing strong libraries in strong universities (their primary emphasis is of course on the physical sciences--it was established by Abdus Salam, the Nobel laureate in physics) , the active remote sensing communities in many of these countries are probably in separate organizations, sometimes associated with major universities but often not. I wrote to Professor Hassan Dalafi in Trieste to see if their system could accommodate a list of recipients that might not coincide with other academic disciplines, and he replied that it would not be a problem— but he wasn't at all specific about how this could be worked out. TWAS can, however, provide an important service in coordinating the work of many scientific disciplines and professional organizations, some of which must have developed quite efficient systems for gather ing and distributing their professional literature. The literature situation in Third World countries is critical, and this is a most opportune time to act. The "graying factor" is impor tant here. There are many people retiring now (and there will be many more in the next few years) who have vast bookshelves full of remote sensing literature—journals, books, publications of all sorts—for which there is no room at home! The price of scrap paper is so badly depressed that it is not even economical to throw them out! And all this while there are libraries in Third World organizations who would happily go to great extremes to get their hands on any of it. We all have great expectations and hopes for Third World scientists, a large number of whom are forced to reinvent the wheel because they are cut off from professional publications. Many of these people have been trained in the North and hold advanced degrees from northern institutions. Many of them are first-class scientists, but they can’t do first-class work unless they are in close contact with their scien tific peers. And they can’t establish or maintain that contact if they don’t have the literature. I’m sure we all agree that their fellow scientists in the affluent parts of the world should do what they can to help alleviate this problem. The easiest, least painful and probably most effective means

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