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these plans and increase utilization of present Landsats in regions which need their 
data most. 
While the primary Project objective is to provide Indonesia with up-to-date 
resource maps in the shortest possible time, an important part will be dissemination 
of assembled data to their potential users. Not all the resource data interpreted from 
aerial photographs, Landsat and SLAR imageries, or obtained from other sources, 
can be displayed on maps. Furthermore, some users will prefer statistical 
tabulations of resource data to their cartographic representation. To satisfy these 
users and to facilitate the broadest utilization of assembled resource data, they will 
be coded and stored in s computer-based National Environmental Geographic 
Information System (NEGIS). Such central system will simplify present complex 
procedures when trying to find out what surveys, if any, have been conducted in a 
particular area, and to locate their records (aerial photographs, maps, inventories). 
Addressed by the geographic or U.T.M. coordinates of the area in question, it will 
print listing of all records available, their descriptors (type of survey, scale, date, 
etc.) and their location. The NEGIS will thus increase utilization of existing surveys, 
shorten time of their search and eliminate duplicity by facilitating a multipurpose 
usage of existing records. The concept of NEGIS was described in detail by Pranoto 
Asmoro (1876, 1978a). 
2. INTEGRATED RESOURCE MAPPING AT 1 : 60,000 SCALE 
A new concept of resource mapping, based on close collaboration between the 
mapping agency and specialized resource agencies (departments), has been adopted 
for production of resource maps in Indonesia. This production-sharing arrangement 
has many advantages. 
The resource institutes have specialists with expertise in interpretation of 
resource data from aerial photographs, Landsat and SLAR imageries, and in 
compilation of thematic overlays for the base maps. Nobody else can do it better. It 
is a well known fact that to become a good photointerpreter in any resource 
discipline (forestry, agriculture, soils, geology, etc.), one has to be a good specialist 
in that particular discipline first. However, the preparation of base map and the 
cartographic completion of the final product are not their strongest features. The 
base maps for resource inventories are mostly being prepared from the existing 
topographic maps. These do not provide enough cartographic detail in remote areas 
with little or no cultural features where the resource mapping in the less developed 
countries so often takes place. Furthermore, many countries do not have a complete 
mapping coverage at medium scales required for the resource inventories 
(Brandenberger, 1976).