AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVES INFORMATION SYSTEM
B.Gungor * *, A. Yasayan®, A. S. Demirel ®, S. Kulur, H. Akdeniz ®
* General Command of Mapping, Photogrammetry Department, 06100 Mamak Ankara, Turkey — (bgungor, sdemirel,
hakdeniz)@hgk.mil.tr
° YTU, Civil Engineering Faculty, Yildiz Istanbul, Turkey - yasayan@yildiz.edu.tr
“ITU, Civil Engineering Faculty, 80626 Maslak Istanbul, Turkey - kulur@itu.edu.tr
ThS 6 - Technical and Economic Aspects of Geospatial Information Services
KEY WORDS: Archiving, Photography, GIS, Systems, Requirements
ABSTRACT:
In this information age, informatics technologies are developing rapidly. These technologies enable to reach and use the information
in anywhere in the world at any moment. Governments which use these technologies, in e-government structure, help the
developments by sharing the information it's got with all people, establishments and institutions in need.
In development period of societies, geographical information is the most important one. In this respect; studies about establishing a
national information system and keeping it actual for Turkey and preparing a geographical database for General Command of
Mapping are being carried on. Thus, geographical information can reach whole users, who need them, in network and can help them
to make decisions.
In this study; a Aerial Photograph Archives Information System was developed by using Arc View (3.1) for archiving the aerial
photographs taken by General Command of Mapping since 1930's. The area, including 1999 earthquake regions, which 1/100.000
scaled BURSA-G23 map covers, was selected as pilot project are
being planned to apply this information system for Turkey.
I. INTRODUCTION
The rapid development in computer and communication
technologies accelerates the heading to the information society
and causes the fundamental changings in economical, political
and social structures of societies. This changing period is the
fundamental element of world economy which grows up and
abolishes physical boundaries. Information technologies change
the economy- from production to commerce, from health
institutions to publication, from tourism to entertainment-
change the educational system, policy, public management,
briefly whole aspects of life. The speed and content of business
life is changing and with the globalisation, every part of world
is becoming both a potential market and a potential rival.
Science, technology and information management have created
a new business life in "new economical environment".
Turkey began some serious and extensive structural searches,
increasing day by day. It is for taking the advantage of infinite
opportunities that information and communication technologies
offer. Some applications based on information technologies not
only force to be restructured and also widespread the process of
globalisation. The pioneer role of the public management, for
some areas in the first years of the Republic, could go on for the
spreading of information technologies. The government, which
will provide the way of "information public" to the people with
the help of its own e-government identity, will gain the
transparent, effective, productive and rapid government identity
and also will have signed on very important economic
applications.
The ownership and usage opportunity of information and
information technologies may differ according to the
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a and applications were put into practice in it. In the future, it is
development level of publics. As a result of the increasing
requirement for the information, the data collection also
increases by providing public development. Nowadays, it is
seen that, information became a component that affects the
production process as labor and capital. The work of collecting
accurate information and arranging them is not only the
problem of developing countries; it is also the problem of
developed countries. The information collected every year
increase two times according to the information collected in the
previous year and cause dense information accumulation and
traffic (Yomralioglu, 2000).
It is seen that, classical methods used in storing and presenting
the information, that are used for decision making in every part
of management, are as insufficient as the ones in collecting of
them. In addition, the demand of reaching the information
fastly, brings the obligation of using opportunities which the
informatics technologies created. It is time consuming and
expensive to collect information or to produce information from
the data, on the other hand, it becomes more difficult to use the
information sensible and at the proper time in dense information
traffic. As a result of this situation, administrative units must be
integrated with informatics technologies in structural and
functional aspects, as e-government necessity (Uyan, 2004).
2. IMPORTANCE OF DIGITAL ARCHIVES IN
INFORMATION SOCIETIES
E-government helps the governments to come closer to people
and business life with the help of internet. Electronic public
management can contribute in accelerating the changing into
information based economy in candidate countries by
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