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economic use. The Working Group offers a test data set
free for everybody who wishes to learn the handling and
contribute to the use of such tools and materials.
(http://cipa.uibk.ac.at/dataset.html)
Working Group 5:
Archaeology and Photogrammetry
developed a very informative and didactically excellent
home-page, which is a real show-window of CIPA.
( http://www.univie.ac.at/luftbildarchiv ) The chairpersons
are Michael Doneus, Vienna, Austria, and Cliff Ogleby,
Melbourne, Australia.
Working Group 6:
Surveying Methods for Documenatation
Contacts to FIG are still missing. The Working Group
offers field proven surveying and documentation techno
logy, such as for example CART from Canada:
(http://nickerson.icomos.org/cart/) and checks them for
possible amendments by combination with photogram-
metric and other methods. Chair: Steve Nickerson,
Canada. Deputy chair is W. Boehler, Mainz, Germany.
Working Group 7:
Photography
is newly formed. Its aims are: better imaging with
consideration of the special need of conservationists and
photogrammetrists, better archival quality, better suitability
for change-detection in time. Special methods are tested
for applicability as for example the panoramic
photography, fisheye and shift lenses versus metric
cameras, video documentation etc. A bridge will be built
by this Working Group to the imaging industry and to
photographic societies. Chairman is Gunter Pomaska,
Germany.
Working Group 8:
Cultural Landscapes
has been started just recently. Chairman is Erwin Heine,
Austria. As his Deputy has been invited H. Olenderek,
Warsaw, Poland. UNESCO and ICOMOS have included
Cultural Landscapes into their scope. CIPA has to follow
and will offer its technological know how in Aerial Survey,
Geographic Information Systems, Digital Terrain Mo
delling and Orthophotography for the survey of Cultural
Landscapes, National Parks and Historical Gardens and
Sites. Monitoring from air, change detection in time and
planning of measures are within the scope of this working
group. A new bridge between the ICOMOS and ISPRS
world.
Task Group 1:
Non Professional Heritage Recording
offers an internet-based heritage information system
called APIS which is ready for use in German and English
language for international input and data exchange. Many
countries are already teaching amateur photogrammetry
in the meantime. It is hoped that Task Group 1 furthers
expedition- and tourist-photogrammetry, which is con
sidered a valuable contribution for the safeguard of monu
ments in developing and poorest countries. Another
initiative concerns the co-operation with the UNESCO-
schools in all countries: Scholars watch the development
of the built heritage. About APIS see http://apis.org.
Chairpersons are Jozef Jachimski, Krakow, Poland, and
Ulrike Herbig, Vienna, Austria.
Task Group 2:
Single Images in Conservation
The group is readily formed and has an excellent web
page (http://cipa.uibk.ac.at/tg2_1.html ) on the use of
single images. This is only the beginning, because Task
Group 2 has planned a textbook on “Single Images in
Conservation”, but this has to be written at first.
For more details see http://cipa.uibk.ac.at. For starting
contacts to CIPA, please fill in the questionnaire there and
contact by email the chairperson of the most interesting
Working Group. Communication among all of the CIPA
experts via CIPA mailing list is open for registered and
approved experts, only.
6. CIPA'S GENERAL MISSION
CIPA has a mission: to bridge the above mentioned
gaps.
CIPA has ideas how to do it.
CIPA is something for all experts, for the experienced
as well as for the young generation.
In CIPA, the ICOMOS and ISPRS Working Teams do
practical research and development, and take care
for mutual know-how transfer.
CIPA furthers professionals and professionalism.
CIPA forwards the most economic methods and the
optimum synergies for documentation and monitoring
of the Cultural Heritage.
CIPA is organised.
CIPA has a Working Programme and also the experts
for mutual dialog, consultation and project work.
CIPA can also be considered simply as a team of
internationally co-operating friends who wish to bridge the
gaps existing in its wide working area, to contribute to the
conservation/preservation of the cultural heritage, and to
help developing the cultural environment. The mission is
directed to the far future. Not this generation will profit the
most from CIPA's activity, but the next ones, the
generations of heirs of a more and more beautiful cultural
and natural environment.
