Beginning with the Convention on Environment and Development "The United Nations Earth Summit" in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, the problem of gap availability, quality, standardization and accessibility of spatial data and information between nations become the topic of discussion. Eight chapters of Agenda 21 plans relating to the need to provide geographic information. Specifically, Chapter 40 aims to reduce disparities in the availability, quality, standardization and accessibility of data between nations.
In the same year 1992, the Global Mapping concept, and the establishment of international bodies that deal with Global Mapping, was proposed by Japan's Ministry of Development (the Ministry of Construction of Japan; MOC), which is currently Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism; (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, MLIT). Later in the year 1994, the Japanese Geographical Survey Institute (GSI) proposed the first draft specifications of the global map. This program involves the participation of many countries including Indonesia.
The specifications of the global map has been amended several times in 2009 and has diadposi global mapping specification version 2.0. Global Mapping products include products such as data raster landcover, landuse, vegetation, elevation, and vector products of hydrology, transportation, population and administrative boundaries. In the year 2007, has officially BAKOSURTANAL transmit vector to the theme of degeneralisasi elevation contour data Topographic maps of Indonesia (RBI), scale 1:250.000, transportation, administrative boundaries and hydrology are also taken from RBI base map scale 1:250.000.
For the Year 2010, BAKOSURTANAL will validate the data products for the global mapping of landcover themes, vegetation, landuse using MODIS data in some provinces such as East Kalimantan, North Sumatra and North Sulawesi, Yogyakarta and West Java. Dr. Rahmatullah Lecturer in Geography, University of Indonesia (UI) were included to strengthen aspects of the use of global data for environmental studies and disaster.
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