ISPRS Highlights Vol.6 No.2
June 2001

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Table of Contents EDITORIAL by Prof. Dr. M. Orhan Altan (ISPRS 2004 Istanbul, Congress Director) ISPRS Society The International Policy Advisory Committee (IPAC) of ISPRS By Ray Harris, Chair IPAC, Department of Geography, University College London The International Science Advisory Committee (ISAC) of ISPRS By Armin Gruen, Chair ISAC, ETH, Z�rich, Switzerland Liaison Report from the ISPRS to the Twelth ISO/TC 211 Plenary in Lisbon By Prof. Dr. Hans Knoop, ISPRS Standardisation of Photogrammetric and Remote Sensing Data Formats: Status Report By Wolfgang Kresse, Chairman ISPRS WG II/4 and Liping Di, Co-Chairman ISPRS WG II/4 ISPRS Commission III Towards Photogrammetric Computer Vision By Franz W. Leberl, President, ISPRS Commission III High Spatial Resolution Commercial Imagery Workshop [Report] By Stan Morain, President ISPRS TC I and Amelia Budge, Technical Secretary, ISPRS TC I 3 rd International Symposium on Mobile Mapping Technology [Report] By Dr. Naser El-Sheimy, University of Calgary, Canada and Dr. Kaichang Di and Dr. Ron Li,The Ohio State University, USA 9 th Conference of the OICC and the 7 th International Seminar Geographic Information Systems Applications in Planning and Sustainable Development [Report] By PD Dr. Carsten J�rgens Internet Resources and Distance Learning, India [Report],Working Group Meeting of ISPRS TC VI/4, By Alka Singhal International Workshop on Recreating the Past - Visualisation and Animation of Cultural Heritage [Report] By Professor Klaus Hanke, CIPA s Webmaster Report of ISPRS Secretary General 1996-2000 By John C. Trinder Correction ISPRS Prizes for Best Papers by Young Authors The Oldest Known Town Plan By Orhan Altan, ISPRS Congress Director The China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite (CBERS) By Tania Maria Sausen Challenges in Geospatial Analysis, Integration and Visualisation Sustaining Members ISPRS Sustaining Members News from Sustaining Members Other Business News Article Spatial Data Infrastructure: Successful and Easy Implementation in South Africa? By Karin Viergever, Wageningen University Research (WUR),The Netherlands Book Review Image Processing, the Fundamentals By Maria Petrou and Panagiota Bosdogianni, John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Chichester Reviewed by Dr. Stuart Robson, Department of Geomatic Engineering, University College London Events Calendar Three-Dimensional Mapping from InSAR and LIDAR Digital Earth Moving, 2001 (DEM2001) Conference on Time and Space Joint International Symposium on GeoSpatial Theory, Processing and Applications ISPRS Events Calendar, By Prof.Tuan-chih Chen OEEPE Workshop on Integrated Sensor Orientation, Joint Workshop of ISPRS WG 1/2, 1/5 and IV/7 and OEEPE / ISPRS Workshop From 2D to 3D - Establishment and Maintenance of National Core Geospatial Databases ISPRS Symposium Dates 2002