ENTERPRISE GIS of
KANGWON PROVINCE

Joong-Hi, Ryu
CADLAND, Inc. , Chief of GIS dept.
Suite #804, Diplomatic Center, 1376-1 Seocho 2-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul, Korea
tel: 02-571-1101 fax:02-571-1311 
jhryu@cadland.co.kr

Hoon-Joo, Yoon
CADLAND, Inc. , Project manager of GIS dept.
Suite #804, Diplomatic Center, 1376-1 Seocho 2-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul, Korea
tel: 02-571-1101 fax:02-571-1311   
hjyoon@cadland.co.kr

Bang-Bum, Choi
Kangwon Province Office, Official of Information dept.
Kangwon Province Office, Bongi-dong, Chunchon-si, Kangwon-do, Korea
tel: 0361-249-2136
choibb@provin.kangwon.kr

Jung-Dai, Kim
Hyungdai Information Technology, GIS dept.
Suite #901, Woorim Building, 1306-6 Seocho-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul, Korea
tel: 02-3466-4222     
kimdc@shinbiro.com

The purpose of this article is to explain the 1st pilot project about developement of the GIS. at the Kangwon Province in Korea. This project is for 3 interested parts (Tour, Environment, and Forest).  Using Esri's Component GIS tools, we had developed the  management  applications  for  provincial  authorities  and  the  data input  web applications for county authorities.    Furthermore both analysis programs customized by using ArcView and map management program used by ArcInfo were built.   Especially the analysis program got the favorable comments when it was used for decision making ( Effects of dam construction and its environmental assessment, forest fire simulation , finding the suitable air monitoring sites in Kangwon province, and etc.)

1. INTRODUCTION

Kangwon Province contains some of the country's most impressive mountains and national parks. The mountainous terrain also provides excellent slopes for several ski resorts and rafting. The east coast has many sandy beaches, hot, and mineral springs. To preserve these natural resources systematically, the Province of Kangwon decided  to develop a Geographic Information System as a supporting tool of decision making and operational management activities in 1998.
In general, the computerization skills of the officers were quite low and it is considered inappropriate for GIS. Regarding the level of information technology application in the Province of Kangwon and long term master plan of GIS that has sufficient education for employee had stood.  In the order of priority,  departments of Tour Plan, Environmental Managements, Forest Managements were selected for developments Esri products were adopted as a tool for developing application because they have many other successful sites in this fields. 

# Main scope of work
  I.  Increased the basic system capabilities for GIS (H/W, S/W)
  II.  developed the program for four office fields
  III.  built the Database

2. THE 1st pilot Project(1998.9 ~ 1999.10)

  2.1. The basic system configuration for Kangwon (H/W, S/W)

  2.2.1 Forest  
The Department of Forest management is responsible for wildfire protection on 16,873Km² of private and National forest land.
At that time, forest fire employee looked up the fire place on a paper map with the coordinates films created by OHP.    It will take an hour to find place because of the searching more than 1000 paper maps. In an emergency, the fire fighting helicopter should be standing by ready until fire forest employee notify the coordinates to pilot. GIS analysis program helps them to find the fire place quickly and supports various projection like UTM and TM only by the clicking some buttons. And they can make the plan of the fire protection through the spider analysis that shows the network relationship from fireplace to lake used the water of fire prevention.
The expected paradigm shift is gradually taking place among the employees. In addition to forest fire management function, Analysis program helps employees who manage the pine tree to prevent the pine tree insects. Through the overlaying pine tree distribution map and the outbreak area map of pine tree insects, they'd learn on what places should be sprayed an insecticide by helicopter. The department of forest management can save a lot expenses.

Figure 2.   Fire simulation

Figure 3.   Spider Analysis

Figure 4.   Find the sprinkle insecticide area 

2.2.2. Environments  
In 1998, Ministy of Construction and Transportaion was promoting new plan of dam construction and drew up a budget to solve the water defiency problem. They decided to construct the new dam suitable for Yongwol county in Kangwon province. Many environmental organizations had filed an appeal canceling the license of the Tong River dams located in the Yongwol in Kangwon Province, on the grounds that the power operations will threaten the eco- system and degrade the water quality of one of Kangwon's most important rivers.  Neither would make a conssessiosn. The dispute was settled through president's promise that cancels the Tong river dam project (1999 .11). but  there are other plans of the new dam construction in Kangwon province by Ministy of Construction and Transportaion. It put the Kangwon province employee related the dam in an awkward position. Inhabitants, environmental organization, a member of the provincial Assembly, a Congressman, and even the governor of a province asked where could be flooded, what school be sank and how long road be under water. We have satisfied their demand with the analysis program built in ArcView. It can show the flooded area at a time through simulating the dam construction with watershed and grid analysis and the lists of feature data presenting flooded area. In second function,  when the employee decide to add the air monitoring implements  in Kangwon area,   system find the most suitable place through the spatial interpolation analysis and it has useful following functions; managements of water pollution source, simple watertank and a preserved upper stream. We edited all the maps on 1: 5,000 scale.

Figure 5  Estimate submerged districts by new dam

Figure 6  Estimate submerged districts by new dam

Figure 7  Find the suitable air monitoring site

2.2.3. Tour
The International Travel Expo '99  was held in Sokcho, Kangwon Province from  Sept. 11 to Oct. 30, The officers of Tour plan department, Kangwon wonder the minds of people there :   How do they successfully host the exposition. And how can they make the province more popular among both Korean and foreign travelers in the next century? They needed to analyze the statistics data for attracting tourists to the their province. Our system also present good solutions by using S-Plus plug-in. Using the time series analysis, we made an analysis program for each county comparing the number of native with that of foreign travelers. Predicting the results by our system helps them to decide a operational costs. Of course, through the DDE(Dynamic Data Exchange),  we shows the predicted results in Arcview.

3. FUTURE PROJECTS

According to the Kangwon Total GIS 21 plan, the next step is the dealing with disaster management system. The Province administration would like  to partly open the geographic data  to many people who have interests through the internet. The supporting policy decisions and assisting the plan on the municipality is being considered through project. To satisfy these demands, we'll upgrade internet applications to be used on the internet with ArcObjects of ArcInfo development tool.  Establishing  the department of internet and GDN(GIS Developer Network) that train the professional internet solution, our company get ready  to next project for Kangwon .

4. CONCLUSIONS

Compared with another similar projects, the Province of Kangwon opted for a basic and simple GIS technology in the first pilot project, that will gradually be replaced to more sophisticated one in next. The initially obtained result was the large dissemination of the GIS technology within the Province's services. It has been practical in daily officer's work. A noticeable achievement is that the GIS concept of coping with data of spatial nature by means of GIS funcionalities has affected the mentality of the employees so that the implementation of the new- GIS based technology is now enthustiastically being proposed for almost all the new projects. As a result, It's important to implement proper methodology of training. It should be flexible, personalized, sustainable. It is most desirable that both trainer and trainee take part in GIS intorduction in solving the ongoing operational problems .