This part of ISO 7507 specifies a method for the calibration of non-insulated vertical cylindrical tanks having diameters greater than 5 m, by means of external measurement using an electro-optical distance-ranging method (EODR), and for the subsequent compilation of tank capacity tables.

This part of ISO 7507 is applicable to tanks with cone-up or cone-down bottoms as well as to tanks with flat bottoms.