Aims &
Objectives The objectives of CIE Australia
are: (a) to assist the Commission Internationale de
l’Eclairage (CIE) achieve its objectives in the fields of light and
lighting, those objectives being –
(i)
To provide an international forum for the discussion
of all matters relating to the science, technology and art in the fields
of light and lighting and for the interchange of information in these
fields between countries.
(ii)
To
develop basic standards and procedures of metrology in the fields of light
and lighting.
(iii) To
provide guidance in the application of principles and procedures in the
development of international and national standards in the fields of light
and lighting.
(iv) To
prepare and publish standards, reports and other publications concerned
with all matters relating to science, technology and art in the fields of
light and lighting.
(v)
To
maintain liaison and technical interaction with other international
organizations concerned with matters related to the science, technology,
standardisation and art in the fields of light and lighting.
(b) to encourage and facilitate
participation in the CIE Divisions and Technical Committees of Australian
scientific and technological experts in light, colour, lighting and vision
(c) to represent the CIE in
Australia by keeping those organisations and persons in Australia with
interests in light, colour, lighting and vision informed of the
proceedings, recommendations and publications of the CIE.
(d)
to represent the interests of Australia to the CIE by
determining the views that prevail in Australia and representing those
views in the forums of CIE, Divisions and Technical
Committees.
It is important to note that in these objectives
light and lighting embraces such fundamental subjects as vision, photometry and colorimetry, involving natural and man-made
radiations over the UV, the visible and IR regions of the spectrum, and
application subjects covering all usage of light, indoors and out,
including environmental and aesthetic effects, as well as means for the
production and control of light and radiation,
also the optical, visual and metrological aspects of
the communication, processing and reproduction of images, using all types
of analogous and digital imaging devices, storage media and imaging
media.
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