International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Joint Working Group Meeting II/6 and II/8 Monday Evening 21 April in conjunction with: Integrating Photogrammetric Techniques with Scene Analysis and Machine Vision III Part of AeroSense '97 SPIE's 11th Annual International Symposium on Aerospace/Defense Sensing, Simulation, and Controls Marriott Orlando World Center Resort and Convention Center Orlando, Florida, USA Monday-Wednesday 21-23 April 1997 http://www.spie.org/web/meetings/calls/or97/or97_home.html All interested parties are invited to attend this inaugural joint meeting of Working Group II/6 and II/8, for the ISPRS Commission period 1996-2000. Those who cannot attend are still welcome to participate in the Working Group activities; see the web page addresses given below to sign up. **** Working Group II/6 Integration of Image Understanding into Cartographic Systems We are soliciting participation from the computer vision, photogrammetry, GIS, and computer graphics communities who are interested in or actively working on some of the following issues: *semiautomated and automated cartographic feature extraction *integration of digital photogrammetric systems and computer graphics for spatial visualization and simulation *integration of photogrammetric knowledge and techniques into computer vision algorithms and systems *application of computer vision algorithms to various sensor and acquisition geometries. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~MAPSLab/isprs.html **** Working Group II/8 Systems for Image Analysis In the context of photogrammetry and remote sensing a digital system for image analysis can be defined as a combination of hardware and software for automating the acquisition and updating of GIS and CAD data. The tasks to be automated include image orientation, 3D surface generation, orthoimage computation, vector data extraction, and the generation of other products. It is the aim of this working group: *to stimulate research in order to increase the level of automation for GIS/CAD data capture and update, *to stimulate implementation of these research results in digital systems for image analysis, *to monitor the development and explore the possibilities of such systems, to increase the level of cooperation between the communities of photogrammetry, remote sensing, and computer vision, *to promote technology transfer from research to industry producing and to groups using such systems, *to act as an information source and to provide a forum of discussion for anybody interested in digital systems for image analysis. http://www.photo.verm.tu-muenchen.de/isprs/wgII8/wgII8.html