49th Photogrammetric Week (PhoWo)
Stuttgart, 1-5 September 2003
At the 49th Photogrammetric Week in Stuttgart more than 400 participants
from 45 countries were following a very interesting program. First time the
PhoWo was organized by the University without the partnership of Carl Zeiss.
It was now open to all vendors of photogrammetric and GIS systems.
During the opening ceremony President John Trinder (ISPRS) and
Vice President Ralf Schroth (FIG) were welcomed. The program with its
lectures in the morning and the practical demonstrations in the afternoon
were based on the topics digital sensors, distributed data processing of
large data sets and 3D-visualisation. The strong reference to practical
applications made the conference again to an interesting and successful
event. The exchange of experiences between system suppliers, service
companies, surveying organizations and users was one of the main aims. But
also the application of the new technologies and the future trends were an
important topic for the participants.
The demonstrations in the afternoon were presented by the University of
Stuttgart, ZI Imaging (Intergraph), Leica Geosystems, Inpho and IGI. 40% of
the participants were coming from German speaking countries. The
presentations were given in English and German, a simultaneous translation
was available. The demonstrations were taking place in several groups
separated by the language of the participants.
As all papers were invited the event was very homogeneous and the
presentations on a high level of quality. It seems that the success of this
conference with its long tradition keeps on in the next future.
The papers are available in printed form, CD and on
www.ifp.uni-stuttgart.de.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ralf Schroth, Vice President of FIG |
