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Announcement of the Brock Award
en hun deelneming daardoor doorgaans een oriënterend karakter
droeg, was het vooral prettig, dat de nodige tijd is besteed aan de
details en aan organisatorische vraagstukken.
's-Gravenhage, oktober 1955. Ir. H. L. van Gent.
The Brock Award, a gold medal and certificate of honor, has been
established to encourage new developments and significant contribu
tions to Photogrammetry throughout the world. The Award com
memorates the original pioneering work, beginning in 1914, of a
group of Philadelphians headed by Arthur Brock Tr- and Norman
Brock. They conceived and developed the Brock Process, and in the
early 1920s they organized a company known as Brock and Wey
mouth Inc., which produced the first accurate photogrammetric sur
veys in the United States and Canada. The automatic glass plate
aerial cameras and stereometers, and the skilled technicians who
learned to operate them, produced many maps with contour intervals
as close as 2 feet, starting in, 1922. Despite the accomplishment of
many successfull topographic surveys, there was not enough work
available at that time to make this pioneering development a financial
success, and in 1930 the Company ceased operations. A few years
later Aero Service Corporation acquired the patents and equipment.
During the war years, with no essential change the Brock equipment
and techniques produced hundreds of topographic maps to exacting
standards throughout the United States and in foreign areas as an
aid to the war effort. Indeed the Brock Process bears the distinction
of being one of the great and earliest contributions to Photogrammetry
made by the United States.
It is desired that The Brock Award be international in character.
The Award will be administered by the Council of the International
Society of Photogrammetry, and recommendations for the Award
should refer to an individual, for the award shall not be made to a
group of individuals, nor to any commercial organization or firm.
Ihe Council will present The Brock Award only in recognition
of a landmark contribution to photogrammetry. Some fundamentally
new equipment of fundamentally new technique may be recognised,
or some other new departure, or a major, completed, photogrammetric
mapping project.
The Council's procedures for submitting recommendations have
been developed thoughtfully to permit a thorough evaluation of the
recommendations. A copy of these rules is attached, and it should
be noted that recommendations are asked for by 1 January 1956 or
before, so that six months or more may be given to their consideration
before the International Meeting in Stockholm in July, 1956.
Rules
(1) The Brock Medal shall be awarded at the sole discretion of the
