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Title
of national project:
NATIONAL LAND
RESOURCES SURVEY USING REMOTE SENSING AND
GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM TECHNOLOGIES
IN DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA
Background
and justification of the project
Over 80% of
the territory of the DPR of Korea is mountainous with steep mountain
peaks, therefore arable land is limited.
The country's climatic feature in weather which dry season is
long and continues strong raining every year is the main reason
of frequent natural disasters such as landslides, soil erosion
and cold-weather damage etc.
These phenomena make the cultivated land of the country to be
decreased.
And the increasing of population, settlement and industrial area
is another reason to reduce useful agricultural land year by year.
Now Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System (RS &
GIS) techniques are widely used for investigation and detecting
all the natural disaster above mentioned and in taking the reasonable
solution for protecting of these damages in the world.
But at present, in DPR of Korea the techniques of RS and GIS are
not developed and applied fully for the land resources evaluation,
natural disaster monitoring and forecasting of crop growing situation,
because of the lacks of skilled experts, the facilities and satellite
data.
Objective
of the project
This the project
aims to enhancing the national capacity of the country to issues
of remote sensing research and to establish the national information
system which is the basis for making a national sustainable development
strategy and the solution for accelerating an economic development.
It includes an understanding acquisition of methodologies and
procedures of RS and GIS, provision of relevant facilities/equipment
and training of skilled specialists.
Details of
the project
a) Selection
and training of the necessary specialists/experts.
It includes following:
- in-country basic education
- oversea training
. fellowship
. study tour
-- lecture and the job training provided by the international
consultants.
b) Provision of research facilities/instruments to project execution
organization, so to build institutional infrastructure.
Project exhaust organization is responsible to procurement of
research facilities/instruments, their installation and running
status.
It includes as follows:
- hardware and software for remote sensing data processing
- hardware and software for geographic information system
During project period both side will summarize the implementation
progresses, discuss a point problems and finally submit the report
of the project implementation results.
Outcome of
the project
Upon the completion
of national project, the following results will be achieved:
1) the experts who are capable of the exact evaluation of the
productive capability of each landuse class like agricultural
land, forest land etc., and preparation of the current landuse
map and equipment.
2) The estimation of environment impacts corresponding to the
national resources and the planing of rural region development,
and taking up the optimal development models.
3) Faculty for education with this in institutes and universities.
Financial
input
1) Foreign
support fund:
(1) Equipment(50,000 USD)
a) Software package for RS & GIS
ERDAS+ARC/INFOR+TIN 6000 USD
b) PC microcomputer 36,000 USD
c) Color scanner (AO) 5000 USD
d) Color laser printer 3000 USD
2) Government Input ( 500,000 Won)
a) Salaries of employees 240,000 Won
b) Training of technician/experts and scientific symposium 50,000
Won
c) The instrument/equipment, materials and test chemical 10,000
Won
d) Building of institute/laboratory 150,000 Won
e) Miscellaneous 50,000 Won
Government
implementation agency
The Institute
of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System(IRSG), The
Academy of Sciences of DPR of Korea
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