Our mission:

Working Group V/6 aims to promote and coordinate activities involving the spatial measurement of natural objects at close range using a variety of modern geomatics technologies, including: digital photogrammetry and terrestrial laser scanning. Activities are of interest to those involved in: 3D reconstruction for: geomorphology, earth science, hydrology, agriculture, forestry, glaciology, geology, surface roughness and climate change studies.

Terms of Reference:

• To increase awareness of close-range photogrammetry and laser scanning to enable wider and wiser application within the earth sciences;
• Educate and inform “non-geomatic” users of the existence and benefits of involvement with ISPRS;
• Identify and promote differing small format camera calibration requirements and approaches, suitable for scales of enquiry relevant for close-range activities;

• Develop, and make freely available, ‘best-practice’ guidelines for non-expert users of:

  •  Consumer grade digital cameras- e.g. simplifying “3x3 rules”
  •  Terrestrial laser scanners
• Identify and rank the key qualities of spatial data necessary for numerical simulation and physical modelling.

Chairman	Co-Chair	Co-Chair
Jim Chandler Loughborough University UK E-mail: j.h.chandler@lboro.ac.uk http: www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/~cvjhc/	Simon Buckley Centre for Integrated Petroleum Research Norway E-mail: simon.buckley@cipr.uib.no http: www.cipr.uib.no	Dirk Rieke-Zapp University of Bern Switzerland E-mail: zapp@geo.unibe.ch http: rieke-zapp
Secretary   Rene Wackrow Loughborough University UK E-mail: R.Wackrow@lboro.ac.uk http: www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/~cvrw5/