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Freitag, 14. Oktober 2016

ZUM TOD DES THAILÄNDISCHEN KÖNIG

Wir, die Opfer der menschengemachten Tsunami-Katastrophe 2004 in Thailand, haben dem König weder in der Vergangenheit zu seinem Geburtstag gratuliert noch werden wir nun nach seinem Tod kondolieren. Ebenso wenig werden wir seine Asche auf das Haupt streuen, um den Trauernden unser Beileid zu bekunden. Denn wir trauern nicht und bedauern den Tod des thailändischen König überhaupt nicht, nicht im Geringsten. Das hat gute und gewichtige Gründe.

König Bhumibol war der einzige Mann in Thailand, der die absolute Macht im thailändischen Staat hatte und diese auch sichtlich genoß. Für einen aufgeklärten Bürger der westlichen Hemisphäre, der nie in Thailand war, fiel und fällt es weiterhin schwer, die herausragende Stellung des thailändischen Königs in Staat und Gesellschaft zu begreifen. Denn Bhumibol schuf um sich eine Art göttliche Aura eines heiligen himmlischen Herrschers auf Erden, dessen Kult bei uns nach unserer Vorstellung nur Geistlichen, Päpsten und eben Heiliggesprochenen vorbehalten war. Dieser Selbstinszenierung half ungemein viel ein Personenkult um ihn, den wir aus der Zeit antiker Tyrannen, römischer Imperatoren, vom Hofe mancher Herrscher bis zur Moderne und im 20. Jahrhundert im Falle von Duce, Hitler, Stalin und des japanischen Kaisers (Tenno) kannten. Seine Untertanen gleich welchen Ranges mussten sich Bhumibol kriechend nähern, während er auf dem Thron saß: Bilder einer längst vergangenen Epoche im modernen Zeitalter. Sehr hilfreich war für ihn der Mythos eines Herrschers im Dienste des Volkes und das gehirngewaschene, fromme, gutgläubige und naive Volk glaubte blind  daran. Sein Cäsarenwahn war so fortgeschritten, dass ein spezielles Gesetz geschaffen wurde, um die Würde des Königs und des Königshauses gegen Majestätsbeleidigung gesetzlich zu schützen – ebenfalls ein Requisit aus längst vergangenen Epochen. Das thailändische Volk hat bis heute nicht begriffen, dass Bhumibol nicht das Volk Thailands liebte, sondern nur sich selbst, seinen Hof, den Hofstaat und seine ihn anbetenden Anhänger sogleich seinen überragenden Einfluss auf die Macht und Wohlstandsverteilung im Lande. Deshalb ließ er seine Kritiker auch beim geringsten Verdacht des Vergehens gegen die Majestätsbeleidigungsgesetze verhaften und im Kerker schmoren. Bhumibol verfügte in Thailand zwar nicht de jure aber de facto über eine uneingeschränkte grenzenlose Macht.

In Anbetracht dieser Erklärungen versteht man, dass er als einziger imstande war, mit einem einzigen Wink seiner Hand die Verantwortlichen für das kriminell-verbrecherische Katastrophenversagen Thailands am 26. Dezember 2004 in die Schranken zu weisen, sie anklagen und verurteilen zu lassen und  mit einem einzigen Satz bewirken, dass sowohl der bis heute unter Verschluss gehaltene thailändische Tsunami-Untersuchungsbsericht veröffentlicht als auch die Katastrophe bis ins letzte Detail aufgearbeitet wird.

Es gab aber auch einen anderen wichtigen Grund sofort einzuschreiten und im thailändisch-königlichen Sumpf alias Staat auszumisten. Denn alles, was in Thailands Staat Bedeutung, Macht und Rang und Namen hat, schmückt sich mit dem Prädikat "Royal" also "Königlich". Und so gibt es: Royal Thai Government, Royal Thai Armed Forces (Oberkommandierender: König Bhumibol Adulyadej), Royal Thai Navy, Royal Thai Survey Department etc. - allesamt also Namen  von den kriminellen Versagern, die im länderübergreifenden Notfall grob fahrlässig, sträflich und unentschuldbar gehandelt haben, nämlich durch ihr kriminelles Nichtstun.

Doch Bhumibol tat all dies nicht, obwohl er beim Tsunami-Desaster 2004 seinen Neffen verloren hatte und somit auch persönlich von der Katastrophe schmerzlich betroffen war und obgleich Tausende Thailänder (die er angeblich so liebte, was aber offensichtlich nicht der Fall war) und Touristen aus aller Welt in dem in erster Linie von Thailand herbeigeführten humanitären Desaster den grausamen, gewaltsamen und fremd verschuldeten also vermeidbaren Tod fanden. Stattdessen ergriff er die Flucht vor Verantwortung und spielte wie ein Clown ohne Anstand, Ehre und Moral die Rolles des Tauben, Blinden, Stummen und Untätigen - die Rolle eines schändlichen Vertuschers - dies nach der folgenschwersten Katastrophe in der modernen Geschichte Thailands mit globalen Auswirkungen . Nein, Thai König ließ in seinem königlichen Saustall alles beim Alten bleiben und ließ die Verantwortung für den Leichenberg von über zehn Tausend Thais und ein paar Thausend Touristen im bhuddistischen Massengebet erwürgen und ertränken - keinem seiner Untertanen im Amt wurde das Haar gekrümmt. Somit ließ Bhumibol die Moral und die Gerechtigkeit auf dem Leichenberg liegen uns alsbald begraben.

Nach dem Versagen Thailands vor und während der Katastrophe kam auch noch das schändliche Versagen danach. Dabei spielte gerade der thailändische König die prominenteste Rolle.  

Die Tsunami-Toten und Hinterbliebenen klagen ihn dafür an.
Schande über sein Haupt!

Jerzy Chojnowski
Chairman-GTVRG e.V.

Freitag, 7. Oktober 2016

CAPSIZED CASINO CAPITALISM

22. September 2008/06. Oktober 2008

To the Editor of
The Wall Street Journal
informationage@wsj.com
Letters@WSJ.com


= Capsized Casino Capitalism =

 


- The Busted Credit Bubble -
- An Avoidable Tsunami and a Wholly Unnatural Disaster -
"One explanation is the absence of warnings
from the professionals whose job it is to identify risks."


Ein Pleiten-Tsunami ist über die Finanzbranche hinweg gefegt. "Eine Eklärung dafür ist" - meint Herr Crovitz - "das Fehlen von Warnungen seitens Experten, deren Job ist die Erkennung von Risiken." Warum haben so viele (scheinbar) kluge Leute an den Schalthebeln so viele falsche Entscheidungen getroffen?

L. Gordon Crovitz meint in seinem Kommentar unter dem Titel "Information Haves and Have-Nots" zu Deutsch: 'Informationsbesitzer und Informationsnichtbesitzer' (WSJ-September 22, 2008, ed-op), weil Informationen, die zur Verfügung standen oder hätten zur Verfügung gestellt werden können, von Fachleuten nicht genutzt wurden. Es hätte rechtzeitig gewarnt werden können.

Gutgemeinte, aber das wahre Problem verfehlende Maßnahmen werden an den Ursachen der gegenwärtigen oder zukünftigen Krise nichts ändern. Der Krankheitserreger wurde fehldiagnostiziert.

**

Re: L. Gordon Crovitz, "Information Haves and Have-Nots"
(WSJ-September 22, 2008, ed-op)

A tsunami of bankruptcies is racing across the financial industry. This was no natural disaster. It didn't have to happen. Experts should have warned and issued alerts based on information that was available and should have been made more universsally accessible.

Well-meant but ineffectual and misdirected measures and new regulations won't cure the present or the future disease. The bacillus has been misdiagnosed.


Jerzy Chojnowski

Chairman-GTVRG e.V. 
www.gtvrg.de

***

PS. Herr Crovitz erwähnt zwar richtigerweise "the absence of warnings from the professionals"- während der sich anbahnenden Katastrophe. Noch eines sehr Wichtiges hätte er aber erwähnen sollen. Das Verhalten der Regierungsbehörden danach und "the questions of moral hazard". Mit der Rettungsaktion der US-Regierung und damit einhergehendem Nachwerfen von Hunderten von Milliarden Dollar den verantwortungslos hoch mit Risiko pokernden Finanzjongleuren und Totalversagern der Finanzindustrie wurde ein Weg nach exakt dem gleichen Muster eingeschlagen, wie nach dem Tsunami-Desaster 2004, nämlich:

Statt zuallererst die kriminellen Versager sofort aus dem Verkehr zu ziehen und vor Gericht zu stellen, statt die Organisationsstrukturen des Katastrophenschutzes umfangreich zu analysieren und diese umgehend und tiefgreifend zu verändern, hat man alles beim Alten gelassen. Man hat die Nieten und Flaschen in geradezu skandalöser Weise zu Medienstars erklärt und sie mit Grants in Millionenhöhe beschenkt oder mit lukrativen Posten beehrt. Anstatt bei den Wurzeln des Übels anzusetzen, hatte man somit den toten Baum grün gestrichen, damit er wie lebendig aussehen würde und für noch lebendig gehalten wird.

Die fehlende Aufarbeitung der Tsunami-Katastrophe 2004 in Amerika und sonst überall in der Welt führte dann immer wieder zu wiederholten Versagen bis sich schließlich das globale Versagen derart kummulierte, dass drei Jahre später ein sekundärer Tsunami anderer Art Amerika und die Märkte der Welt verheerte.

Hank Paulson sprach schon vor ein paar Monaten von "moral risk/hazard" und meinte damit genau das oben Gesagte:

Das lebensbedrohliche Risiko, die tödliche Gefahr die Versager für ihr Versagen zu belohnen...

sprach und tat genau das Gegenteil, was er meinte, nämlich keine Ursachenforschung und radikale Konsequenzen (und schon gar nicht der Art, die den in Verantwortung stehenden kriminell fahrlässigen Politikern an den Kragen geht) sondern Herumdoktern an den Symptomen der Krankheit.

Am 8. September 2008 schrieb THE INDEPENDENT
(published in Britain) unter

Financiers need not just a rescue but a reckoning
folgendermaßen:

"Yet we should not make too much of the differences. The truth is that there has been stunning "moral hazard" on both sides of the Atlantic in the past year. Taxpayers' money has been used on an unprecedented scale to inject liquidity into dried-out markets, something which has thrown a lifeline to thousands of greedy investors and irresponsible banking groups that would otherwise have gone bust. The extent of the public liabilities resulting from this crisis, both in America and Britain, will only become clear over time. But we can be certain that they will be vast.

But when it is over, there needs to be a reckoning. The banks that relaxed their lending standards so irresponsibly in the boom must be constrained to stop them doing the same thing again. Those regulators and politicians -- amongst them our own prime minister -- who rode the housing and speculation boom while neglecting to demand sound-lending practices must also be held accountable. The credit crunch is not just a market failure. It is a damning failure of regulation.

"http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/37...ueonline09.html

Allen fahrlässigen Beteiligten sollte ein für einmal klar werden:

Wenn die Ursachen einer Massenkatastrophe und eines kollektiven Versagens weder erkannt noch alle notwendigen Konsequenzen daraus gezogen werden, klopft die nächste Katastrophe bereits an die Tür.
Und genau das ist eben geschehen.


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WORKING WORLDWIDE 
TO PREVENT MAN-MADE DISASTERS
Anyone can contribute. Donate and help our association.

Donnerstag, 6. Oktober 2016

ENQUIRY FOR THE LACK OF NAVIGATIONAL WARNING

Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 2:30 AM
Subject: = Enquiry for the lack of navigational Warning =



NAVAREA X
(Australia)
(80°E–160°E)

Maritime Duty Officer
Australian Search and Rescue (AusSAR)
Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA)
GPO Box 2181
Canberra City ACT 2601
Australia
RCC@amsa.gov.au

= Enquiry for the lack of navigational Warning =
 Dear Maritime Duty Officer,

What about a navigational
NAVAREA-Warning 
> SECURITE <
(MSI=Maritime Safety Information)
over
INMARSAT
and
NAVTEX
to ALL SHIPS/ALL STATIONS
relating the
NAVAREA X
 - Indian Ocean -
(in your responsiility) 
because of the megaearthquake near Sumatra on 26. December 2004
and the objektive danger of possible tsunami in the Indiam Ocean.
Could you friendly report and specify me
all details and facts this day about your
maritime activities relating this case?
  Thank you!

Regards,
mgr Jerzy Chojnowski
Chairman-GTVRG e.V.
Skipper, MaritimeConsultant

*************************

Montag, 3. Oktober 2016

ROYAL THAI SURVEY DEPARTMENT

History(Wiki):The Royal Thai Survey Department (Thai: กรมแผนที่ทหาร) is a Special Services Group of Headquarters, Royal Thai Armed Forces (กองบัญชาการกองทัพไทย) tasked to conduct land and aerial survey, geodesy and geophysics works in Thailand. The headquarters of the Survey Department are located on Kanlayan Maitri Road in the Phra Ratchawang subdistrict of Phra Nakhon District, Bangkok, (ถนนกัลยาณไมตรี แขวงพระราชวัง เขตพระนคร กรุงเทพฯ) and the current Department Director is Lieutenant General Noppadon Chotisiri (พลโท นพดล โชติศิริ เจ้ากรมแผนที่ทหาร.[1][2])
Modern map surveying in Thailand began in 1875 during the reign of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) with the establishment of a Mapping Division to lay out the map for telegraphic activities linking Bangkok to Phra Tabong (Battambang) and also to map around the Thai Gulf.
Prince Damrong (then known as Phra Ong Chao Ditsawarakuman) conceived the idea of forming a Survey Department. King Rama V granted the establishment of the Thai Survey School in 1882, with initial recruits coming from the Royal Guards. A royal decree issued September 3, 1885, separated the surveyors from the royal bodyguard and created the Royal Survey Department.

 

UNITED NATIONS
E/CONF.97/5/CRP. 1
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL
Seventeenth United Nations Regional Cartographic
Conference for Asia and the Pacific
Bangkok, 18-22 September 2006
Item 6 (b) of the provisional agenda*
COUNTRY REPORTS
REPORT OF THAILAND ON CARTOGRAPHIC ACTIVITIES
Submitted by Thailand **
* E/CONF.97/1
** Prepared by Mr. Vichit Satharanond, Lientenant General, Director General, Royal Thai Survey Department.
Report of Thailand on Cartographic Activities
During the Period 2003 – 2006

This country report of Thailand presents in brief the cartographic activities during the reporting period 2003 – 2006 performed by various government organizations namely Royal Thai Survey Department, Hydrographic Department, Department of Mineral Resources, Royal Irrigation Department and Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand.

The Royal Thai Survey Department (RTSD)

The Royal Thai Survey Department is the national mapping organization under the Supreme Command, Ministry of Defense responsible for surveying and producing topographic maps of Thailand in support of national security, spatial data infrastructure and other country development projects. The work done during 2003 to 2006 is summarized as follows.
1.Topographic Products
1.1 Topographic Map Series L7018 In 2004, RTSD completed Thailand L7018 Recompilation Project. It was the production of the newmap series L7018 comprising 830 sheets of 1 : 50,000 scale digital topographic line maps ofThailand, using WGS 84 datum. Replacing the former L7017 series, this series is the 1: 50,000topographic base maps of Thailand primarily for national defense and government uses. It was anticipated that in 2006, 210 sheets in the middle part of Thailand will have been revised using SPOT5 imagery.
1.2 Topographic Map Series 1501 Topographic map of Thailand series 1501 at a scale of 1:250,000 including 45 sheets coveringThailand had been revised and made available in a vector format. The production sources are 1:50,000 scale map series L7018 and DETED2
1.3 City Map of Bangkok
The city map of Bangkok at a scale of 1:50,000 had been revised and published in 2003 for the public.
1.4 Tourist Map of Bangkok
In 2004, RTSD published the A4 sized book of Tourist Map of Bangkok at a scale of 1:25,000 showing interesting places of Bangkok with the most updated transport information.
2.Geodetic Activities
2.1 Horizontal Control Network
2.1.1 Status of GPS network before the mega- thrusted earthquake on 26 December 2004
Geodesy and Geophysics Division, the Royal Thai Survey Department ( RTSD) is responsible for the establishment of Geodetic Network in Thailand using the Global Positioning System.

The GPS observations have been performed since 1991 and its networks have been continuously developed until now. Moreover, RTSD had participated in various international projects of GPS observations. The results coming out from the participation in the various projects make the GPS Thailand Network acquire not only the observed data but also the accurate and reliable control stations. As a result of this, Geodesy and Geophysics Division, RTSD has performed the network adjustment covering the whole country in order to make the network not only become more accurate and reliable but also reach the unity. The Network of RTSD is divided into 3 levels as follows:
1) Reference Frame (Zero Order Network) being used for the project on monitoring tectonic motions, THAICA and GEODYSSEA Projects consisting of 7 stations namely GPS 3001 Uthai Thani province, GPS 3052 Srisaket province, GPS 3217 Lampang province, GPS 3315 Chumphorn province, GPS 3405 Pattani province, GPS 3427 Chonburi province and GPS3657 Phukhet province. Reference coordinates are in ITRF system during the time of 1996.3.
2) Primary Network (First Order Network)
 It is determined in Class A as standardized by FGCC. This network which is extended from the Zero Order Network was first observed in1999. There are 18 stations included in the First Order Network (including 7 stations asspecified in item 1). The interval in each station is about 250 kilometers.
3) Secondary Network (Second Order Network)
 It is determined in Class B as standardized by FGCC. This network is extended covering the entire country with the total of 692 stations. The said network has been observed from 1991until 2002. The interval in each monument is about 20 – 50 kilometers.


Fig.1 GPS Network of Thailand
In conclusion, before the mega-thrusted earthquake on December 26th, 2004 the RTSD GPS Network is highly reliable and consistent with FGCC’s standard. All stations from GEODYSSEA and THAICA Projects in ITRF system during the time of 1996.3 are used as the Control stations. However, RTSD Reference Frame of GPS stations are also used for studying the geodynamics with DEOS, the Netherlands Institute. By using more than ten years (1994 – 2004) GPS data from the campaigns, it found that these stations move eastward about 3 centimeters per year, or it might say that Thailand move eastward about 3 centimeters per year as shown in Fig. 2.
Fig. 2 Thailand 1994-2006 Horizontal Velocities in ITRF-2000

Reference Frame Primary Network Secondary Network
2.1.2 Deformation of GPS network due to the mega-thrusted earthquake on 26 December 2004

The Mw 9.3 mega-thrust earthquake on 26. December 2004 off the coast of North Sumatra, has resulted in large co- and post-seismic motions throughout SE Asia. As a result, also the geodetic network of Thailand has been deformed. The THAICA network has been regularly observed with GPS since 1994. Therefore the continuous tectonic motions in Thailand, which is located on the Sundaland block are well known. The last GPS campaign prior to the mega-thrust earthquake took place in October 2004 as part of the EU-ASEAN funded SEAMERGES project. Shortly after the earthquake, the GPS campaign was repeated in February 2005 to determine the co- and post-seismic. The entire THAICA and GEODYSSEA GPS database on Thailand was (re)processed, using the Precise Point Positioning strategy of the JPL GIPSY software package. Data from the International GPS Service (IGS) were included, to obtain the positions and velocities of the Thai sites in the International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF) solution of 2000.The coordinate time series of the Thai geodetic network span up to a decade and each GPS campaign averaged position was determined with an absolute horizontal accuracy of 3 to 5 mm in ITRF-2000. This resulted in absolute steady-state velocities prior to the earthquake with uncertainties below 1 mm/yr. The earthquake resulted in co-seismic displacements, ranging from 27 cm in the south, 8 cm in the center, to about 3 cm in the north and east of Thailand. The postseismic motion already increased further these displacements at each location by 25% in only 50 days. The post- seismic motion is time dependent with an exponential decay rate, and will be clearly detectable for at least 0.5 year in the north and east of Thailand, and up to 1.5 year in the south. The relative position changes in the national Thai geodetic network can finally reach up to 50 cm or even more if more large a ftershocks like the Mw 8.7 earthquake in Sumatra occur. Additional GPS re-measurements are required to model the post-seismic motion better, and determine accurate time dependent transformation parameters between pre- and post-earthquake network coordinates. Updating the geodetic network for Thailand will not be an easy task. The entire network is still further deforming as a result of the post-seismic motion.
Fig. 3 Co- and post-seismic deformation measured at GPS Reference stations
2.1.3 Status of GPS network after the mega-thrusted earthquake on 26 December 2004

After the mega-thrusted earthquake on 26. December 2004, RTSD had to perform GPS re-observations on the Network as follows:
1) Reference Frame (Zero Order Network)
The previous 7 GPS stations were re-observed repeatedly by 3 times in 2005 and 2 times in 2006 (until now) in order to define the new coordinates of the stations and velocities of the Thai sites in the International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF) solution of 2000.
2) Primary Network
(First Order Network) The previous 18 GPS stations were re-observed once in 2005 and readjusted to Reference Frame in the International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF) solution of 2000. These 18 GPS stations were observed once again in 2006 in order to investigate the deformation in the GPS network that it should be determined in Class A as standardized by FGCC.
3) Secondary Network
(Second Order Network) This class of the GPS network had been re-designed and performed the GPS observations by selecting some suitable GPS stations in the network. Partly GPS network in the southern and the northern part of Thailand had been performed in 2005 and 2006 respectively. 
Fig. 4 GPS Network after the mega-thrusted earthquake on 26. December 2004
2.2 Vertical Control Network
The network of first order leveling was extended from the tidal datum (Mean Sea Level) at Ko Lak (BMA.) to every part of the country. The first order leveling is carried out to densify the network every year. All observation data in the leveling network were prepared and adjusted simultaneously in 2003. In 2004 – 2006 the first order leveling is still carried out in every part of the country to densify the network
Fig. 5 First order leveling network of Thailand
2.3 Geodesy and Geodynamics Research by GPS Observations. Pursuant to the coordination between the RTSD and DEOS, Delft University, Netherlands, both sides are interested in high accuracy geodetic coordinates to derive the velocity estimates of plates motion and site ties for GPS stations in and around Thailand. The GPS permanent station was set up at Survey school, RTSD in April 2005.
Fig. 6 RTSD-DEOS GPS permanent station at Survey School, RTSD
The station installation was successful, and the station now provides high-quality  dual-frequency GPS measurements. The first batch of GPS data from the new  RTSD-DEOS GPS base station (RTSD) was successfully analyzed. Although the station is located in the center of Bangkok, the GPS data quality is very good, and no signs of noise in the GPS measurements was observed. Therefore, the daily coordinates are of high accuracy (within 2 mm for the horizontal position), and after 10 days already resulted in absolute ITRF-2000 coordinates which are better than 5mm for the horizontal and 20 mm for the vertical position. The station is very well suited for fixing the Reference Frame for GPS network of Thailand. Also the station will allow a continuous monitoring of the post-seismic motions in Bangkok related to the 26th December 2004 and the 28th March 2005 earthquakes in Indonesia, which have deformed the landscape of Thailand.
2.4 Participation in Regional Geodetic Campaigns
RTSD took part in the APRGP campaign on GPS observations nearly every year. Five stations from the THAICA stations and two GEODYSSEA stations were observed during the campaign as shown in Table 1, and the data were submitted to APRGP.
Table 1 GPS observations in the APRGP campaign
3.Map Information Center
3.1 Introduction
Therefore, since MIC b egan operations in 1995, especially during 2002-2006, many vital tasks in front of and behind scenes have been carried out successfully. A few of all MIC tasks are discussed in details of each task as following:
3.2 Royal Project Participation
Since four years ago, MIC of RTSD as one of participates in Royal Project Operation, has realized
several Royal tasks mentioned in details as follows:
1)Royal GIS Project Realization
In Thailand, His Majesty the King usually uses RTSD topographic maps for planning his people’s
welfare improvement projects. Therefore to celebrate 60th anniversary the King’s accession to the
throne and to release his hard working, RTSD under
the general director initiates to develop Geo-
information Systems as the King’s Supporting syst
ems for His Majesty’s planning in several ten of
Royal Projects because Geo-information is the important
basic tools for all spatial planning. In the first
step, MIC distributed all available RTSD geospatial
information to the King and his royal servants for
Royal project. The project completion and operation launch will be expected soon.
2)Ancient Map Renovation
Under Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Si
rinthon’s attention to re
novate naturally-decaying
ancient maps for historical research propose
s for the next generation. MIC has been honorably-
assigned by digitalizing all ancient maps. (See Figure 1)
Figure 1 Processing of Ancient Map Renovation
3)Arrangement of Basic Map U
se’s Training Courses for Royal Servants of the Office of His
Majesty’s Principal Private Secretary
Annually, therefore there are several thousands of
Thai’s suffering release letters to His Majestic
though the Office of His Majesty’s Principal Privat
e Secretary. Then, this office is in charge of
assistance of screening and propo
sing those problems further to Hi
s Majestic for his final making-
decision. RTSD topographic maps are as the import
ant tool or evident for clear and vivid problem’s
analysis. To strengthen their map usage skill of sta
ffs of the office, MIC with heart-full attention
completed arrangement of map usage courses fo
r staffs of the office or Royal servants
during
September2005.
4)Exhibition for HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirinthon’s RTSD Visiting for 120
th
RTSD
Establishment Anniversary
In September 2005, RTSD a
rranged the celebration of 120
th
RTSD establishment anniversary. In this
special
occasion of RTSD, HRH Princess Maha Chakri
Sirinthon kindly accepted RTSD’s invitation.
On her RTSD’s visiting date, it is honored and appreciated of all RTSD’s staffs because HRH
Princess
Maha Chakri Sirinthon was interested in every portion
of Exhibition by spending time over much his
assigned schedule. (See figure 3)
Moreover, some selective MIC’s officers as well-tr
ained experts in Geo-information Applications are
pleased to present their royalty to periodically se
rve H.M. King and H.M. Queen Activities of their
people’s sustainable welfare development and sufficient
economy during Their Majesties visiting of
Thai people in rural area through Thailand.

Figure 3 HRH Princess Maha Chakri
Sirinthon’s RTSD visiting for 120
th
RTSD establishment
anniversary
3.3 Digital Map Service
RTSD’s Geospatial Information Distribution for the public
During 2002-2006, MIC is one particle but vital
supporter of national and social developments by
planning with our products. Even though all products
which MIC distributes values not so expensive,
(approximately 32,000,000 bath or 800,000 US$ in total Geo-data value during 2002-2006), all RTSD
products would cause certainly more effective and
accredited assistances of all planning projects upon
RTSD’s products in figure 4
Figure 4 Example of Product from MIC
3.4 Government supporting for national development and national problem resolution
MIC of RTSD is sometimes assigned directly from
Royal Thai Government, The Parliament and The
Court to participate some national or sensitive pr
oblem solutions. Some examples of tasks are
exampled as following:
- Pasak Basin flooding and drought management by
using Geospatial Information application
- Short course Arrangement of Geo-informat
ion application training for DSI officers
- Approval of illegal Land Proclamation in National Park Area Violence under Court ordering.
Inaccuracy and ambiguous map is able to be a dar
k-hole for illegal Land Proclamation in the national
parks. Therefore, processing
of case is not simple as civil cases.
Therefore, by order of civil court,
some RTSD’s mapping elite from MIC has been assigned to be in charge of this mission since 2000 in
case consideration of illegal land proclamation.
3.5 NSDI Participation
To figure out above problems, three properties of
Geo-informatics infrastructure are compulsorily
realized: Geo-information sharing, National Spatial Data Infrastructure and GIS clearing house.
Geo-informatics Sharing
The way of finding out this problem is accordable a
rrangement of all stake holder agencies in terms of
MOU. This property is going on stage. On behalf of
RTSD, MIC is also one of all stake agencies under
National GIS committee to determinate National
GIS direction and policy of Thailand. The other
approach is campaign of same GIS standard thr
ough ISO. In GIS realm, there are several ISO
standards regarded such as ISO/TC
211 etc. In Thailand, National Standard Office is host of National
GIS standard administration in form of National
GIS standard committee of Thailand. Also on behalf of
RTSD, MIC is assigned to be a member of the committee.

National Data clearing house
By Cabinet’ s resolution for fulfillment of National Data clearing house within 2005, twin nodes of
National Data clearing house are defined and installed at RTSD and GISDA. At RTSD, MIC is in
charge of clearing house’s installation within 2
005. National clearing house are depicted in Figure 5
Figure 5 Concept of National GIS Portal
supporting MIS of Royal Thai Government
In the next further step, existing governmental
MIS will be linked with the National Clearing House
finally for expandable support in a
variety of Governmental missions.
3.6 Data support for Crisis management
Undeniably MIC is compulsory to conduct releas
ing of all available RTSD geo-information and
analysis results from R&D section. Few eminent ex
ample of this MIC task are mentioned as below:
Southern uprising release
To support related national security agencies, MIC of
RTSD is in charge of supporting all available,
developing and consulting ways of Geo-information for insurgency release solution.
Tsunami Case
MIC of RTSD with maximal potential and all av
ailable RTSD geoinformation have distributed and
additional generated necessary information for related
organization of Post-tsumani affected releasing.
This full-heart mission remains st
ill the affected area will be recover
ed and resilient into the normal
condition. Some released information is shown in figure 6.
Figure 6 18 3D-Visualization on affected area: exam
ple of RTSD products supporting through MIC
(Cont.)
3.7 Consulting Role
MIC staffs also under the general director’s vision and commands, all staffs are able to be formed as
Ad-hoc or special task forces of geospatial expe
rt term to promptly response urgent missions,
especially hot issues that are able to use GIS ap
plication. During 2002-2006, officially and informally
MIC has given consulting for appr
oximately several hundred of org
anizations and people. MIC’s
consulting covers varied Geoinformation-related knowledge and skills.

3.8 Additional Project
MIC has sometimes been requested to figure out or implement no-standard or unsolved Geo-
information problems original from uncertain met
hod of mapping. Some on-going project is mentioned
as following:
Ministry of Education’s School geospati
al information database implementation
In mid of 2006, Thailnad’s Ministry of Educati
on or MOE requested MIC to implement MOE’s school
spatial database. This project completion will be expected in end of 2006.
3.9 International Cooperation
RTSD as well as MIC is not alone in internati
onal Geo-informatics communities but always walks
together and shares knowledge and experience te
chnically with many close colleague federal
mapping agencies worldwide. Some example of firm relation of RTSD is mentioned as below:
NGA-RTSD cooperation
During 2002-2006, on behalf of RTSD, MIC and NGA remains very public-advantageous Geo-
information project, called “Reformatted new Topographic Map of RTSD implementation”to adapt
available new Topographic Map of RTSD for GIS-supportable data by adding attributes and On-line
distribution with the method of “Feature Layer Data
base (FLDB)” The project is expected to complete
and launch data distribution in the end of 2006.
3.10 Human Capital Management
Human capital is very vital for success or faul
t of organization. Then all MIC’s fulfillment depends on
human capital. Therefore MIC has conducted cont
inuously development of human capital and staff-
skill improvement into several approaches. De
tail of those approaches
is listed as follow:
Long-life learning program
To step forward into Knowledge-based organization in the next decade, MIC staffs are always
promoted to long-life learn and se
lf study not only their professi
onal-related knowledge but also
general issues in a variety of media such Internet etc.
Under-graduated and graduated program
During 2002-2006, few MIC’s staffs graduated Doct
oral and Master Degrees with excellent study
performances.
Such staffs are important human capitals fo
r implementation of more progressive MIC
as the leading accredited agency of Geo-informatics.
Student training program
MIC is pleased to be a volunteer to train academic and practical Geoinformation application for
students from several universitie
s during summer break. Fulfillment
of this mission indicates
achievement of those students in
their professions. Especially
, during 2002-2006, students who got-
trained from MIC are able to seek good jo
bs of Geo-informatics professionals.
MIC Public-Accredited as Digital mapping and GIS knowledge center.
MIC is honored and accredited as the usual terminate
of academic tours from people of varied of fields
such as high-school students to cabinet member
s etc. for digital mapping and geo-information
applications.
3.11 MIC’s Research and Development activities
MIC not only is in charge of maintaining missio
n of RTSD’s geoinformation distribution but also
Research and Development conduct. Objective of MIC’
s R&D operation is to find out optimal solutions
of present existing problems in map service
line and realize new conc
epts of geospatial data
applications fitted with Thailand in future.
Some successful R&D result is mentioned as following:
Under RTSD’s general director’s initiation, RTSD
, since April 2006, Geoinformatics Space Technology
Development Agency (GISTDA) and Chulalongk
orn University have c
ooperated to develop like
GoogleEarth, open-source Thai-fitted software
with GISTDA and RTSD available Geospatial
Information for easy access of Thai people without language or IT high skill barriers called “Digital
Thailand”. By very working hard of assigned staffs
, this project is very promising and successful and
will be launched in mid of 2006. Some parts of
“Digital Thailand” softwar
e are depicted in figure7.
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