Table of Contents

• EDITORIAL ()
  • By Klaas Jan Beek, Congress Director 5
• ISPRS ORGANISATION ()
  • Minutes of Council Meeting Budapest, Hungary (By John Trinder, Secretary General, ISPRS) 6
  • Joint Meeting Council and Technical Commission Presidents, Budapest, Hungary (By John Trinder, Secretary General, ISPRS) 10
  • The U.V. Helava Award - Best Paper 1999 (By Emmanuel P. Baltsavias, Editor-in-Chief, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) 14
  • Report on the Joint ISPRS Commission Workshop on Dynamic and Multi-dimensional GIS (By Jun Chen, Chair of ISPRS WG IV/3) 15
  • Report on the ISPRS WG V/3 Symposium in Cotonou, Benin (By Heinz R�ther, Treasurer, ISPRS) 19
  • 85th Birthday of T. J. Blachut (By Gottfried Konecny) 20
  • ISPRS Workshop 'Bridging the Gap' in Ljubljana, Slovenia (By Gottfried Konecny) 21
• THE XIX ISPRS CONGRESS 'Geoinformation For All' ()
  • How the Scientific Programme of the XIXth ISPRS Congress Came to Be (By Martien Molenaar, Chairman of the Scientific Programme Committee) 22
  • The U.V. Helava Award Nominees (By Emmanuel P. Baltsavias, Editor-in-Chief, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) 23
  • Announcement on CATCON2 at ISPRS Amsterdam Congress 2000 23
• THE FUTURE OF ISPRS ()
  • Preview of ISPRS Strategic Plan (By Lawrence W. Fritz, President, ISPRS) 25
  • Interview with TCPs 26
• INTER-ORGANISATIONAL ACTIVITIES
  • ISO/TC 211 Geographic Information Standards (By Norman C. Andersen) 28
• FROM OUR MEMBERS ()
  • The CBERS Satellites: New Earth Observation Tools (By Carlos Santana) 31
  • La Cameroon Geomat or the 103rd Ordinary Member of ISPRS 32
  • Nahbereichsphotogrammetrie: Grundlagen, Methoden und Anwendungen (By Stephen Kyle) 33
• ISPRS SUSTAINING MEMBERS ()
  • ISPRS Sustaining Members 35
  • Profile of New Sustaining Members 37
  • News from Sustaining Members 40
• ISPRS EVENTS CALENDAR (1 June 2000 Version) ()
  • By Joanne Heckman 45