文档介绍：ADVANCES IN PHOTOGRAMMETRY, REMOTE SENSING AND SPATIAL INFORMATION:
2008 ISPRS CONGRESS BOOK
International Society for Photogrammetry and
Remote Sensing (ISPRS) Book Series
Book Series Editor
Paul Aplin
School of Geography
University of Nottingham
Nottingham, UK
Advances in Photogrammetry, Remote
Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences:
2008 ISPRS Congress Book
Editors
Zhilin Li
Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics,
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Jun Chen
National Geomatics Centre of China, Beijing, China
Emmanuel Baltsavias
Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, ETH-Hoenggerberg,
Switzerland
Note on the front cover image:
The cover image relates to the ISPRS 2008 Congress motto “Silk Road for Information from Imagery”.
The ancient Silk Roads were regarded as the information super-highway of their age, serving as the conduit not
only for goods but also for the transmission of knowledge and ideas between east and west.
Nowadays, the need for timely, quality, long-term, global spatial information requires building and operating
new Silk Roads based on knowledge sharing and international cooperation that can transfer information from
an unprecedented amount of imagery to everyone in an emerging, people-centered, inclusive and development-
oriented Information Society.
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