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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.
- 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."
EinPleiten-Tsunamiist 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.
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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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]) Modernmapsurveying 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. 4GPS 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
