Review of aerial triangulation in 1950

✍ Scribed by P. Wiser

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1950
• Weight: 503 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0031-8663
• DOI: 10.1016/s0031-8663(50)80027-3

✦ Synopsis

In volume I no. 3, 1949--1950 of Photogrammetria there was published a paper by Mr. Reading, President of the I. S. Ph., which drew attention to the fact that the Commissions I, II, III and VI are continuing their work during the period between the 6th and 7th Congress and expressed the hope that during this period intensive international cooperation will develop. At the beginning of 1950, Prof. Roelofs suggested that the presidents of the different commissions publish in Photogrammetria directives that couh! guide and coSrdinate the work of the specialists in each of the branches of photogrammetry.

In conformance with the ideas expressed above, it seemed desirable to publish a survey of the work and investigations concerning Commission III, at a time halfway between the holding of congresses at The Hague and at Washington.

To this end, a questionaire was sent 1) to each national delegate, asking, among other data, for as exact and complete information as possible about the work executed in each country, distinguishing between application on the one hand and theoretical and experimental research on the other.

Eight countries --Finland, Sweden, Switserland, Belgium, the Netherlands, the United States, Italy and France --have sent more or less detailed answers. Since these answers were received within a period of several months, they can be considered applicable to the first semester of 1950.

Only the essential points will be repeated here, but the complete documents are at the disposal of everyone interested.