The Photogrammetric Society: 1952–2001

A scholarly account of the formative discussions, the founding and the first 20 years of the Photogrammetric Society was published in 1971 and republished in 1974. This present review concentrates on the latter years of the life of the Photogrammetric Society prior to its merger with the Remote Sensing Society in 2001.
The authors joined the Photogrammetric Society in 1960 and were conspicuous in its affairs for many years. Although both occupied the Society's presidential chair, they also fulfilled several other roles in its efficient management. Atkinson's first contribution to the Photogrammetric Record was published in 1968 and Newton's in 1971.     

THE PHOTOGRAMMETRIC SOCIETY ANALOGUE INSTRUMENT PROJECT: A SECOND EXTRACT

The paper entitled The Photogrammetric Society Analogue Instrument Project was published in The Photogrammetric Record, 14(82): 565-582 (October 1993). It contained, as Appendix A, the entry from the Archive that dealt with the Zeiss Stereoplanigraph. This paper provides a second extract from the Archive concerned with the entries relating to the Barr & Stroud ZA1 plotter, the Williamson Multiplex equipment and the Thompson pinhole plotter.     

THE MERGER OF THE PHOTOGRAMMETRIC SOCIETY AND THE REMOTE SENSING SOCIETY

The attempts by A. S. Macdonald in the late 1980s and by J. A. Allan in the mid-1990s to integrate the UK societies and professional organisations within the spatial science field are described. The Photogrammetric Society, noting a long-term decline in its membership, set up an internal working group in 1997 to consider the future of the Society. A lengthy questionnaire to all individual members produced a 57% response and mandatory support for renewed action on greater inter-society cooperation.
A further effort to produce a wide amalgamation of bodies in the UK spatial science field on the Macdonald/Allan models failed for lack of support nationally. As a smaller step, perhaps to be extended later, a merger with the Remote Sensing Society was eventually agreed. The subsequent lengthy and delicate negotiations necessary to bring about a successful merger between these two mature, independently minded learned societies are described. The two societies were formally merged on 1st April 2001.
The author was a member of both the Photogrammetric and the Remote Sensing Societies and chaired the External Affairs Committee of the Photogrammetric Society preceding the merger.     

THE ROLE OF THE PHOTOGRAMMETRIC SOCIETY: RESULTS OF A QUESTIONNAIRE

M embers of the Photogrammetric Society, both individual and corporate, were sent a questionnaire during December 1985. The content of the questionnaire touched upon many aspects of Society activities and it is intended that the substance of the replies should help to direct the Society in the future. An analysis of these responses was presented to the Thompson Symposium at the University of Birmingham on 19th April. 1986. It is reproduced here, together with a summary of the discussion which ensued on that occasion. Readers are encouraged to add their comments to those which follow. sending them to the Editor of The Photogrammetric Record or to the Honorary Secretary of the Photogrammetric Society.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed;
D. Fritsch and R. Spiller, Photogrammetric Week '99.
D. R. Wilson, Air Photo Interpretation For Archaeologists
D. R. Green, Gis: A Sourcebook For Schools
R. Gower, Workshop On National Mapping Agencies And The Internet
A. Flotron and O. Koelbl, Precision Terrain Models For Civil Engineering
P. Atkinson and D. Martin, Gis And Geocomputation. Innovations In Gis 7
R. P. Kirby, Revision Measurement Of Large Scale Topographic Data
J. Höhle, Automatic Orientation Of Aerial Images On Database Information
S. Dequal, L. A. Koen and F. Renaudo, Comparison Of National Guidelines For Technical And Cadastral Mapping In Europe ("Ferrara Test")
P. J. Gibson, Introductory Remote Sensing: Principles and Concepts
T. Luhmann, Nahbereichsphotogrammetrie: Grundlagen, Methoden Und Anwendungen     

基于VirtuoZo数字摄影测量系统的正射影像制作

主要就基于VirtuoZo数字摄影测量系统制作正射影像图进行了系统的介绍,并就某些参数的选择和设置以及系统某些功能的适用性进行了讨论和介绍。     

Conference Reports

18th International Symposium of Cipa by D. M. Barber, p.505
48th Photogrammetric Week by A. T. Smart, p.506
5th Conference on Optical 3D Measurement Techniques by G. Hunter, p.509     

浅谈空中三角测量在实际工作中的应用

提出了利用VirtuoZo AAT进行空中三角测量的工作流程，并通过在VirtuoZo数字摄影测量工作站上进行的实验，对自动空中三角测量的实际精度进行了分析，提出了实际应用的一些看法。     

浅谈空中三角测量在实际工作中的应用

提出了利用VirtuoZo AAT进行空中三角测量的工作流程,并通过在VirtuoZo数字摄影测量工作站上进行的实验,对自动空中三角测量的实际精度进行了分析,提出了实际应用的一些看法。     

THE NEW DECADE: DIGITS AND DIVERSITY

The President of the Photogrammetric Society, Mr. I Newton, chaired a panel discussion concerned with those developments in photogrammetry which may take place during the 1990s.     

Integrating Photogrammetric Techniques With Machine Vision and Scene Analysis II

Integrating Photogrammetric Techniques With Machine Vision And Scene Analysis II by I. J. Dowman, p.323
Kodak Digital Cameras For Small Format Aerial Photography by R. W. Graham, p.325
From Pixels To Sequences by S. Robson, p.327     

基于倾斜摄影测量技术快速建立城市3维模型研究

倾斜摄影测量技术是一项高新技术,它通过在同一飞行器上搭载多台传感器,同时从五个不同的角度采集影像,从而快速建立城市3维模型,能够有效地降低城市3维模型建模成本.     

Computer Assisted Learning of Photogrammetric Measurement

This paper describes a project, the aim of which was to develop a computer assisted package for the teaching of analytical photogrammetry and especially the use of the ADAM Technology MPS-2 Micro Photogrammetric Stereoplotter.     

VirtuoZo全数字摄影测量系统制作DEM的实用方案

介绍利用VirtuoZo全数字摄影测量系统制作DEM的工作流程,说明生成DEM的具体操作步骤,指出提高作业精度的具体措施和办法.     

The Photogrammetric Society Analogue Instrument Project: a Fourth Extract

The paper entitled The Photogrammetric Society Analogue Instrument Project was published in The Photogrammetric Record, 14(82): 565-582 (October 1993) and contained, as Appendix A, an extract from the Archive concerned with the history of the Zeiss Stereoplanigraph in Great Britain. A further two extracts have since been published to provide details of direct optical projection instruments used in this country. This fourth extract now goes on to begin to provide some details of analogue plotters that employed a purely mechanical solution. The first instrument of this type to be described is the Vivian Thompson Stereo-plotter of 1907. It was in fact the very first instrument of this important category ever to be produced but unfortunately it was also the only one produced in Great Britain.     

利用IKONOS立体影像绘制1∶50000地形图的实践

本文介绍利用IKONOS的核线投影产品在国产的三种数字摄影测量工作站(DPW)上,按大规模生产的要求,对西藏樟木测区进行1:50000测绘的实践。提出“内业→外业→内业”的作业流程。分析了投影差对DOM的精度影响和DEM与DOM、DLG与DOM数据叠加产生影像位移的问题。     

XVIth INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING

The XVIth International Congress of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, organised by the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, was held in the Kyoto International Conference Hall from 1st to 10th July, 1988. The activities of the seven technical commissions of ISPRS were described at a meeting of the Photogrammetric Society on 18th October, 1988. The meeting also heard about the Congress Exhibition and the deliberations of the General Assembly during the Congress. Papers from the Congress were published in the International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 27.     

PHOTOGRAMMETRIC MEASUREMENTS OF GLACIAL LANDFORMS

Photogrammetric methods using sequential aerial photography can provide the geomorphologist with comparative measurements of rapidly changing glacial landforms. Examples are given of eskers, kame and kettle areas, an ice-dammed lake and coastal features in south-east Iceland.     

History of the Photogrammetric Society

The Photogrammetric Society was formed in 1952. The Council of the Society considered that the twentieth anniversary was a good point at which to record the events which led to its formation and the significant occasions and decisions which have taken place since 1952. Consequently, Paul Lamboit was invited to compile this History. He has placed the birth and development of the society within the national and international photogrammetric context and his record of the deliberations which took place between 1947 and 1952 will be of particular interest to historians of our subject.
This account was first published in a limited edition in 1971. Sufficient interest has since been expressed to prompt a wider circulation through publication in the Photogrammetric Record .
The author served the Society continuously in several official capacities from 1953 to 1969 and he was elected to Honorary Membership in 1969.     

全数字摄影测量系统用于架空送电线路勘测

介绍了在电力线路勘测设计的不同阶段应用全数字摄影测量系统处理卫片和航片及对架空送电线路的路径进行优化的过程,并说明了一些作业方法和步骤。