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Decree of the Goverment of Russian Federation "Affairs of Federal Service of Geodesy and Cartography of Russia" 1-3
Drazhnyuk A.A. On the Results of Activities of the Branch in 1998 and Measures for its Revival 4-18
Gustov V.A. First Priority Tasks of Roscartographia 18-20
Decision of the Board 20-28
Geodesy
Brovar B.V., Demyanov G.V., Zubinskiy V.I., Makarenko N.L., Pleshakov I.Ya. Present State and Outlook for Geodetic Support System of the Country under Conditions of Transition to Satellite Methods 29-33
Koslov N.A., Smirnov A.A., Starodubtsev V.I. Maintenance of Operational State of Large Constructions 33-37
Visirov Yu.V. Regulation of Tripod Legs While Optical Centering 37-39
Aerophototopography (Aerial Surveying And Photogrammetry)
Gelman R.N., Nikitin M.Yu., Kostandoglo Yu.V. Airvideosurvey: Possible Application, Methods of Photogrammetric Processing of Video Images 39-45
Duda P.I. On Alteration of External Orientation Elements of a Scanned Airphotograph 45-47
Cartography
Kvasnikova E.V., Sudakova E.A. Principles of Mapping of Radioactive Contamination and their Application for Compilation of State Map of Ceazium-137 Contamination of Russian’s Territory 47-51
Geoinformatics
Tsvetkov V.Ya. Author’s Rigts and Intellectual Property in Geoinfomation 52-54
Anniversary congratulations
Yakov Arzuninovitch Topchiyan is 50 55-56
Chronicle
Kiselev V.V., Filimonov E.V. On Second Session of Working Group of Delegates from CIS Countries on GIS 56
Fedoseev G.A. The Living are Fighting 57-60
Smirnov Valentin Alexeevitch (obituary) 61