Academic level of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

At the 2 1 International Conference on Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) confirmed that the Chinese Surveying and Mapping Society, which represented China in ISPRS, was promoted to the eighth member of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. At this point, China, together with the United States, Canada, Germany and Russia, has become the highest-ranking member of ISPRS.

The member countries of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing are divided into eight grades according to the voting weight. China was a member of Grade 6 when she joined ISPRS on 1980, and was promoted to Grade 7 at the 2000 19 ISPRS conference, and to Grade 8 at this conference. Grade 8 member countries require more than 800 senior experts in the field of photogrammetry and remote sensing, who have great influence in the discussion and decision-making of important matters in the field of international photogrammetry and remote sensing and have high voting weight.

ISPRS * * has a total of 96 member countries, including 29 first-class member countries, 2 1 2 second-class, 3 12 third-class, 4 12 fourth-class, 8 fifth-class, 5 sixth-class, 4 seventh-class and 5 eighth-class.