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The
words - the more data, the better
became an old word in the flood of
information in the 21st century, the
era of digital information. |
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The
ability to filter out useless information
which was called ‘obsolete knowledge’
by Alvin Toffler will be the key component
of a future society. |
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A
method being recognized to solve the
problem of information flood is to
associate existing information with
location, called spatialization, by
which it is expected that efficient
exchange and use of information can
be realized. |
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This
type of movement has been started
by leading companies and government
organizations. Examples of the base
technology to spatialize the information
can be Google’s Google Earth, Microsoft’s
Virtual Earth, and the Digital Earth
project led by Al Gore, the US vice
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The
value of spatial information in market,
however, can be interpreted with reference
to the total value of companies relevant
to spatial information technology.
For example, Navteq, the company producing
global map with 1,900 employees and
the total sales of 500 million dollars
is valued about 5 billion dollars
at present (2006. 6). Meanwhile, for
example, a traditional company, LG
Electronics having employees of 31,000
and the total sales of 23 billion
dollars is valued only about 8.7 billion
at present (2006. 6). |
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As
indicated above, spatial information
technology has been considered as
one of the key technologies to make
the quality of information improved,
and as the field to bring abundant
resources. The venture of intelligent
land information projects will make
the future information society innovated,
thereafter generating national wealth. |
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<Information
before spatialization> |
<Information
after spatialization> |
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Since the spatialization technology
is important in making the information
society enriched, many nations have
been making their efforts through the
national projects.
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inent |
natio
nal |
company |
task |
const
ruction |
trans
portation |
environ
ment |
land
manage
ment |
natio
nal
secu
rity |
space
develop
ment |
map
ping/
survey |
pre
vention |
land
infor
mation |
| North America |
USA
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Digital Earth |
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NGA
(National Geospatial
Intelligence Agency) |
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NASA
(National Aeronautic
and Space Administration) |
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USGS
(U.S. Geological Survey) |
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NGS
(National Geodetic Survey) |
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FEMA
(Federal Emergency
Management Agency) |
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DOT
(Department of
Transportation) |
o |
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| Europe |
European Union |
ESA
(European Space Agency) |
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| England |
OS(Ordnance Survey) |
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| EA(Environmental Agency) |
o |
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| Asia |
Japan |
MLIT
(Ministry of Land,
Infrastructure, and Transport) |
o |
o |
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GSI
(Geographical
Survey Institute) |
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India |
SI
(Survey of India) |
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This
project has been arranged as one of
the projects organized in five divisions,
14 fields, 78 core projects (total
investment: 6.326 million), that belongs
to the division ‘Future Growth Engine
Creation’ ? ‘Realization of Industry
Structure for Higher Value Added Products’
? ‘R&D on Constructing Cutting
Edge Infra and Distribution System.’ |
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The
project has been chosen in the roadmap
of Construction and Transportation
R&D as one of the key projects,
VC-10 (Value Creator 10) that will
create the value of 40 billion in
the next ten years.
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Korea
has been reported to have world leading
technology in the field of IT (including
GIS), for example, ranked first in
the world in the ultra high speed
internet usage rate (OECD report,
2005), third in the information-oriented
index, fifth in the electronic government
index (UN electronic government index,
2004) |
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Since
2004, with the u-IT839 policy, the
Ministry of Information and Communication
has been constructing bases to support
a ubiquitous-oriented society. Among
the eight services, Telematics/LBS,
RFID/USN, WiBro and W-CDMA will generate
synergy effects through the realization
of technologies related to land information.
Among the three infras, u-sensor network
and Broadband convergence Network
(BcN) will be the bases of ubiquitous
GIS. In addition, among the nine new
growth engines, Telematics devices,
RFID/USN devices, etc. will expand
their values with the development
of land information technologies. |
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Possessing
location information acquisition technology
as the core of the land information
and ubiquitous technologies is aimed
at and supported through the policy,
“General Development Base Plan for
National Satellite Navigation System.”
For intance, Korea is expected to
possess technology infra by participating
in the EU Galileo project. |
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The
success of launching the satellite
Arirang2 which embeds a 1m resolution
optical sensor will reduce considerably
the dependency of land monitoring,
and furthermore will be the base to
lead the world in the field. |
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In
Korea, ubiquitous environment is regarded
as the premise of the future technology
development, whereby the location
and spatial information are thought
to be its bases. Specifically, relevant
studies have been performed in the
fields of construction and transportation
which typically deal with the land. |
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Engines
for our development have been prepared
with the budget of 120M which would
be recorded as the biggest research
fund among the single projects dealing
with land information, the IT infra
which has been leading the world,
many other related component technologies
which are present or under development,
and the base of the land geographic
information constructed through the
first and second NGIS projects development
engines. |
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