National LUP workshop 4.10. - 5.10.2012, Vientiane, Lao PDR NGD - Finnmap Strengthening National Geographic Services In Lao PDR

1. BRIEF PRESENTATION OF SNGS
PROGRAMME:
• PROJECT DESIGN
• PRODUCTS
• CURRENT PROGRESS STATUS
Kari Suominen Collaboration Meeting at UN, 4.7.2012

2. PROGRAMME
 Bilateral Development Co-operation Programme
 Total budget 6.5 MEUR, GOF 6 MEUR, GOL 0.5
MEUR
 Approach is Institutional Development and Capacity
Building
 Duration of the programme is 4 years, from August
2010 to July 2014
 Mapping area for this phase covers southern part of
the Lao PDR covering 1/3 of the country.

3. OUTPUT PRODUCTS
 Geodetic Horizontal and Vertical Network
 Aerial Photographs
 Digital Elevation Model
 Ortophotos
 Vector data
 Seamless Geodatabase
 1:50,000 Topographic Base Maps
 1:5,000 Orthophoto Maps
 1:5,000 Topographic Maps in big cities

4. AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
 PROJECT AREA
 Southern part of Laos
 Savannakhet, 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

5. AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
 EQUIPMENT
 VEXCEL UltraCam Xp large format digital camera
 17310 x 11310 pixels = 200 Megapixels
 Tracker GPS navigation system
 AEROControl GPS/IMU registration
 Piper Cheyenne II Turboprop

6. Digital Orthophotos

7. Topographic Base Mapping
1:50,000

8. Orthophoto Mapping

9. PROGRESS STATUS
 RGB Orthophotos 100% competed
 2D digitizing well in progress
 3D DEM editing well in progress
 98% of Procurement programme completed
 70% of Training programme completed
 ICT infrastructure 95% completed
 Client survey in good state and will continue
 Financially on right track; about 50% of budget is used
now.

10. NEW AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
 NEW AREA
 Approx. 90,000 km²
(1/3 of the country)
 Photography will be
completed during this
dry season