Sustainable Global Mapping Toward Collaboration with a Regional Initiative

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Sustainable Global Mapping -Toward Collaboration
with a Regional Initiative-

• D. R. Fraser Taylor,
  Chair ISCGM
• Hiromichi Maruyama,
  Secretary General, ISCGM
• Hisakazu Sasaki,
  Secretary, ISCGM
• Takaki Okatani,
  Secretary, ISCGM
• November, 2005, The First Meeting of the AGM
  Project

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Contents

• Global Map
• Background of Global Mapping Concept
• From Concept to Project
• Status (participation, data development)
• Relationship between Global Map and Regional SDI
• Influence to NSDI and RSDI
• Influence to Global Map
• Toward Sustainable Global Map
• Collaboration with Regional Initiatives
• Collaboration with AGM

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Background of Global Maping Concept

• UNCED held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992
• Agenda 21 describes the need of geographic
  information
• Currently available data is insufficient
• Inhomogeneous quality
• No practical plan for revision of the data
• No authorization nor endorsement by any local
  authorities
• Contribution from Survey Mapping Sector
• Provision of global geographic information for
  global environment research and decision making
• Global Mapping

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Concept to Project - History of Global Mapping -

• 1992 UNCED
• Adoption of Agenda 21
• Global Mapping Concept proposed by Japanese
  Government
• promotion of the concept to the
  international society
• 1996 Establishment of International Steering
  Committee
• 1997 Rio5(UN General Assembly Special Session)
• necessity of Global Mapping included in the
  adopted Programme for the further implementation
  of Agenda 21
• 1998 UN sent the invitation letter to the Global
  Mapping project to all the NMOs in the world
• Specifications of GM have been prepared by ISCGM
• GM started as a project

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Global Map is ----

• Digital geographic dataset of
• Global coverage
• Consistent specifications
• Worldwide open distribution
• Global Map is for ----
• Expected application
• Analyses for solving global environmental
  problems
• Monitoring activities for environmental change at
  global level
• Base information for attaining sustainable dev.

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Philosophy of Global Map

• National mapping organizations will participate
  voluntarily and make data available for use.
  Each mapping organization will be responsible for
  providing data of their territory.
• National mapping organizations can provide data
  for a global, fundamental, consistent database
  for research and decision making.

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Global Map Specifications

• Spatial resolution 1km
• (equivalent to 11,000,000 scale)
• 8 layers
• Vector data(point, line, area)
• Boundaries(Administrative/Coast),Drainage(Rivers
  /Lakes),Transportation(Roads/Railways/Airport),Pop
  ulation centers
• Raster data(grid)
• Elevation, Land Cover, Land Use, Vegetation
• Format
• VPF (Vector layer), BIL (Raster Layer)

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Global Map Data(Vector Data)
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Global Map Data (Raster Data)
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Who is making Global Maps

• NMOs (National Mapping Organizations) are assumed
  to make Global Maps for their countries
• Support scheme available for those who are
  difficult in making Global Maps by themselves
• Global Maps are open to public through the Web
  (www.iscgm.org)
• International Steering Committee for Global
  Mapping (ISCGM)
• 20 members incl. Heads of 17 NMOs
• Chair Prof. D.R.F Taylor (Carlton Univ., Canada)
• Secretariat Geographical Survey Institute (GSI),
  Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport
  (MLIT), Government of Japan

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Current Status of Global Mapping

• 151 countries and regions participate(89 of the
  global land area coverage)
• 21 countries(14 of the global land area
  coverage) already released Global Maps
• 2000 Japan, Lao P. D. R., Nepal, Sri Lanka,
  Thailand,
• 2001 Australia, Bangladesh, Colombia, Mongolia,
  Philippines.
• 2002 Panama, Kenya
• 2003 Botswana, Burkina Faso, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz,
  Mexico, Myanmar.
• 2004 Swaziland, Samoa
• 2005 Iran
• ? With data for verification phase(about 70
  countries and regions), more than 50 of the
  global land are being covered.

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Progress of Global Mapping Project
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After the start of project - History of Global
Mapping(2) -

• 2000 The First Release of Global Maps through the
  Internet (5 countries)
• 2002 WSSD
• Adopted document Plan of Implementation
  describes global mapping
• Global Mapping Project is registered as Type 2
  initiative / partnership
• 2005 Introduction of new approach for raster data
  development (GLCNMO)
• 2007 Whole land of the Earth to be covered by
  Global Maps

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New raster data development GLNMO
Way of producing land cover classification
data. - by making reference data for Global Land
cover data through cooperation of NMOs -

Land cover information
High resolution satellite data
Producing reference data for land cover data of
the whole world
Positional information
Producing Ground truth data
Ground truth information
Collect ground truth data by NMOs and classify
satellite images with these ground truth data.
Ground truth
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What data NMOs should develop now
Before
Now
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Standardization
Legal aspects
Framework data
Human Resources
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Influence from RSDI to Global Map

• Regional Initiatives may provide data with better
  quality
• Seamless data, additional layers, multi languages
• Improve sustainability of Global Map
• Well maintained framework data of RSDI can be
  used directly or with slight modification as
  updated Global Map

Global Map
Framework Data of RSDI
Rely on each other
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Toward sustainable Global Map

• Collaboration with RSDI
• More efficient and effective maintenance of GM
• More uses for environmental issues and
  sustainable development issues
• more visibility of geo-information in other
  fields
• e.g. IT, GEO (Global Earth Observation)

• Collaboration with AGM is indispensable

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-gt all countries/regions
-gt 100
-gt use of satellite imagery
-gt Increase applications for Global Environment
sustainable development
-gtexpand applied area
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statistics
satellite data
various thematic data
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