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