1. INTRODUCTION 
Subject of this paper is description of the National Resource Survey and 
Mapping Project of Indonesia, particularly of its remote sensing program. The 
primary Project objective is to provide Indonesia with up-to-date photomaps at 1 : 
25,000 scale for densely populated Java, Madura and Bali, and at 1 : 50,000 scale for 
the rest of Indonesia. These photomaps will be overprinted with the forest, 
agricultural, pedologic, geologic and land use/land capability data, supplied by 
respective resource agencies or depertments. In addition, selected areas will be 
covered by photomaps at 1 : 250,000 scale, based on the Landsat or SLAR 
imageries. 
Planning stage of the Project spanned the years 1978 - 1978 and included 
arrangement of financing, preparation of technical specifications, staff training, 
construction of mapping laboratories, acquisition of equipment and execution of 
pilot projects. High altitude panchromatic serial photography of Sumatra, Irian Jaya 
and Maluku Islands, conducted under the Australian bilateral assistance program, 
was started a few years before this time. 
Project implementation is projected to take five years, starting in 1979. Critical 
factor will be the progress of high altitude aerial photography, because of adverse 
weather conditions in some regions. Photomaps at 1 : 250,000 scale, based on SLAR 
Imagery, will be obtained for these areas in order not to delay their exploration and 
economie development. Similarly, photomaps at 1 : 250,000 scale based on Landsat 
imagery will precede the medium scale mapping in areas where good quality 
Landsat images are available. 
The present Landsat coverage of Indonesia is very limited. There is no Landsat 
ground receiving station ir the area and yet, only long term Landsat coverage and 
its recording, can yield acceptable imagery because of the already mentioned adverse 
weather conditions in many regions. The Australian Landsat ground receiving 
station, which is under construction in Alice Springs in the central part of Australia, 
will cover only small part of Indonesian territory. Present uncertainty about the 
technical aspects (orbital parameters, remote sensing payload) as well as about the 
financial requirements and legal contrains of the Landsat follow-on program, makes 
planning of the Landsat ground receiving station rather difficult (Kalensky et al, 
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