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The Brock Award, a gold medal and certificate of honour, has been established to encourage new developments and significant contributions to Photogrammetry throughout the world. The Award commemorates the original pioneering work, beginning in 1914, of a group of Philadelphians headed by Arthur Brock, Jr and Norman Brock. They conceived and developed the Brock Process, and in the early 1920s they organized a company known as Brock and Weymouth, Inc. which produced the first accurate photogrammetric surveys in the United States and Canada. The automatic, glass plate aerial cameras and stereometers, and the skilled technicians who learned to operate them, produced many maps with contour intervals as close as 2 feet, starting in 1922. Despite the accomplishment of many successful topographic surveys, there was not enough work available at that time to make this pioneering development a financial success, and in 1930 the Company ceased operations. A few years later Aero Service Corporation acquired the patents and equipment. During the war years, with no essential change, the Brock equipment and techniques produced hundreds of topographic maps to exacting standards th:oughout the United States and in foreign areas as an aid to the war effort. IlJdeed the Brock Process bears the distinction of being one of the great and earliest contributions to Photogrammetry made by the United States.
It is desired that The Brock Award be international in character. The Award will be administered by the Council of the International Society of Photogrammetry, and recommendations for the Award should refer to an individual, for the Award shall not be made to a group of individuals, nor to any commercial organization or firm.
Your Council will present The Brock Award only in recognition of a landmark contribution to photogrammetry. Some fundamentally new equipment or fundamentally new technique may be recognised, or some other new departure, or a major, completed, photogrammetric mapping project.
The Council's procedures for submitting recommendations have been developed thoughtfully to permit a thorough evaluation of the recommendations. A copy of these rules is attached, and it should be noted that recommendations are asked for by 1 January 1956 or before, so that six months or may may be given to their consideration before the International Meeting in Stockholm in July, 1956.
Award Of The Brock Medal according to the decisions of the Council of the International Society for Photogrammetry of May 22nd 1954 and March 25th 1955.
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