STRENGTHENING NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SERVICES IN LAO PDRBRIEF PRESENTATION OF SNGS PROGRAMME:

• PROJECT DESIGN• PRODUCTS• CURRENT PROGRESS STATUS

Collaboration Meeting at UN, 4.7.2012Kari Suominen

PROGRAMME

Bilateral Development Co-operation ProgrammeTotal budget 6.5 MEUR, GOF 6 MEUR, GOL 0.5

MEURApproach is Institutional Development and

Capacity BuildingDuration of the programme is 4 years, from

August 2010 to July 2014Mapping area for this phase covers southern

part of the Lao PDR covering 1/3 of the country.

OUTPUT PRODUCTSGeodetic Horizontal and Vertical

NetworkAerial PhotographsDigital Elevation ModelOrtophotosVector dataSeamless Geodatabase1:50,000 Topographic Base Maps1:5,000 Orthophoto Maps1:5,000 Topographic Maps in big cities

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHYPROJECT AREA

Southern part of LaosSavannakhet, Saravan,

Champasak, Xekong, Attapu and southern part of the Khammouan province

Approx. 71,000 km² (1/3 of the country)

Photography completed between November 2010 and January 2011

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHYEQUIPMENT

VEXCEL UltraCam Xp large format digital camera 17310 x 11310 pixels = 200 Megapixels

Tracker GPS navigation systemAEROControl GPS/IMU registrationPiper Cheyenne II Turboprop

Digital Orthophotos

Topographic Base Mapping 1:50,000

Orthophoto Mapping

PROGRESS STATUSRGB Orthophotos 100% competed2D digitizing well in progress3D DEM editing well in progress98% of Procurement programme completed70% of Training programme completedICT infrastructure 95% completedClient survey in good state and will continueFinancially on right track; about 50% of

budget is used now.

NEW AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY

NEW AREAApprox. 90,000 km²

(1/3 of the country)Photography will be

completed during this dry season

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