Hi Sam, As the Project Advisor for this endeavor and I'd like to clarify a few things:
1. We are digitizing a set of scanned, georeferenced atlas pages - a set of 400
topographic sheets; there is no satellite imagery involved. This is the
lineage of the atlas:
The originator was the Japanese Land Survey Ministry who
conducted the initial surveying between 1937-1942 and published the Atlas in
1949. The Atlas was revised (data supplement 1976 - 1979) by Soviet Joint
Chiefs of Staff, in 1981. Original Russian text translated into Korean and
English and replaced by MuongJi University and KyongIn Publishing Co, with
support from the Dept. of Russian Language, Korea Foreign Studies University.
2. We are conducting this project at the request of WFP and iMMAP, who will own
the data at the conclusion of the project. They have said they will make this
data, as well as the source data, available to the public through the GIST Data
Repository<https://gistdata.itos.uga.edu/> here at ITOS at the conclusion of
the project.
3. We wrote the protocol to generate data that is consistent with WFP and
iMMAPs operational needs - it's a modified VMAP1 schema with solid topological
relationships capturing the following features: roads (primary and secondary),
tracks, trails, bridges, tunnels, railroads, named populated places, rivers,
lakes, reservoirs, airports, runways, ports, a coastline, and administrative
boundaries. With the fine work of GIS Corps volunteers, team leaders and
several layers of quality control I feel this will be an excellent contribution
to the wider humanitarian community.
4. Unfortunately I wouldn't characterize us as "wrapping up the project." While
it is true that we have nearly all of the sheets have been assigned for
digitizing, at this point only 145 of the 400 sheets are complete, with other
sheets in various stages of production. We will also need time after the
digitizing is complete for post processing and edgematching. I can't give you
a solid timeframe on that at this point. You can check the project
page<http://www.giscorps.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=89&Itemid=63>
for progress updates.
I really can't thank the GIS Corps volunteers enough - they are a spectacular
group of professionals and I am very grateful for their continued support of
the project.
Best,
Karen
Dr. Karen Payne
Humanitarian Programs
Carl Vinson Institute of Government
skype: karenpayne1
https://gistdata.itos.uga.edu<https://gistdata.itos.uga.edu/>
1180 East Broad Street | Athens, GA 30602
Phone: 706-542-7766 | Fax: 706-542-6535
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
www.vinsoninstitute.org<http://vinsoninstitute.org/>
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From: Sam Larsen [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 7:11 AM
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Subject: [HOT] GISCorps mapping N Korea
Hi all,
FYI - I've been speaking to a colleague who is involved in the GISCorps mission
to map North Korea (Mission with iMMAP/WFP - North Korea)
http://www.giscorps.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=89&Itemid=63
They are wrapping up the project and seem to have completed most of their
digitising of North Korea from what sounds like satellite imagery (i don't know
how old these are) and old Russian maps (probably from 60's)
Someone may be interested in opening up a connection with them to manually
import some data to fill in any gaping holes in our coverage, this could be a
useful exercise for preparedness for any future deployments in N Korea.
samlarsen1
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