Edgar Hynes Thompson: respect and admiration

This author, a leader of European developments in photogrammetry and especially in aerial triangulation, writes of his respect and admiration for E. H. Thompson and of their increasingly close relationship over a number of years before Thompson's early death in 1976.     

Edgar Hynes Thompson: a collection of centenary reminiscences

The idea for this collection of memories of E. H. Thompson began as a suggestion to potential contributors for anything from "a couple of sentences to a couple of paragraphs". Both their willingness to write and the length of some contributions show how influential Thompson has been in the lives of so many of his colleagues and students. Contributors include two past-presidents of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing and six past-presidents of the Photogrammetric Society. Three longer essays are published as separate contributions to this feature.     

Edgar Hynes Thompson Centenary

A significant landmark for British and international photogrammetry, as well as for this journal, occurred in January 2010 with the centenary of the birth of E. H. Thompson. Soldier and academic, polymath and wit, his scholarly contribution to our discipline has endured long after his too early death in 1976. So too have the vivid memories of those who worked with him or who were taught by him. This centenary tribute has been written by an author, E. H. Thompson's first cousin once removed, who has researched the Thompson family genealogy. The second author was a student and then an academic colleague of Thompson as well as being Assistant Editor of this journal for 11 years under Thompson's editorship.     

Edgar Hynes Thompson: aerial triangulation and ISP Commission III

This author worked with E. H. Thompson in several different contexts in the course of his military and civilian career, notably in developing Thompson's ideas about analytical aerial triangulation into a production system at the Ordnance Survey and later as a lecturer under Thompson at University College London and as Secretary of ISP Commission III when Thompson was Commission President. This essay thus stands as a separate contribution from a close colleague.     

An Anniversary and a 21st Century Analogy: E. H. Thompson and the Seven-Lens Aerial Camera

E. H. Thompson, the pre-eminent British photogrammetrist, died 25 years ago. His memory has been perpetuated in several ways. An analogy is drawn between the design of a 21st century digital air survey camera and that of Thompson's multi-lens camera of the 1930s.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
M. Petrou and P. Bosdogianni, Image Processing, The Fundamentals
S. N. Lane, K. S. Richards and J. H. Chandler, Landform Monitoring, Modelling And Analysis
T. M. Lillesand and R. W. Kiefer, Remote Sensing And Image Interpretation
A. S. Câmara and J. Raper, Spatial Multimedia And Virtual Reality
M. N. Demers, Fundamentals Of Geographic Information Systems
J. L. Casanova, Remote Sensing In The 21st Century: Economic And Environmental Applications
G. McGrath and L. M. Sebert, Mapping A Northern Land: The Survey Of Canada
A. S. Milman, Mathematical Principles Of Remote Sensing: Making Inferences From Noisy Data
K. Kraus, Photogrammetrie Band 3: Topographische Informations-systeme
E. M. João, Causes And Consequences Of Map Generalisation
R. B. Parry and C. R. Perkins, World Mapping Today
P. M. Mather, Computer Processing Of Remotely Sensed Images: An Introduction
M. E. Schaepman, Calibration Of A Field Spectroradiometer
J. C. Iliffe, Datums And Map Projections For Remote Sensing, Gis And Surveying