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Quality Control (QC) of "geodetic products" or more 
widely, the geodata especially related to the 
international and European standards (ISO, CEN), 
etc. 
Recognising most important elements of Croatian situation and 
high motivation to improve geodetic and surveying fields of 
work, some European countries decided to give Croatia support 
and assistance for consulting services, efficient recent 
technologies transfer, specialisation, education and training of 
Croatian professionals and capacity building of Croatian 
responsible institutions to be able to significantly improve their 
work. In the mentioned setting, the Kingdom of Norway 
decided to give to the Republic of Croatia and responsible 
Croatian institutions direct technical and financial support, and 
assistance in planning, development and realization of a very 
important, significant and complex project named Croatian- 
Norwegian GeoInformation Project (CRONO GIP). 
Apart from having great significance and meaning for the 
whole state CRONO GIP has got at same time enormous 
significance for SGA and CGl's development. It should be 
pointed out that CGI is a completely new institution in Croatia, 
recently founded and functioning from December 2001. The 
assistance to CGI in building and developing capacities for 
specialised professional works, including technology transfer, 
specialization, education, training, infrastructure building 
(equipment), etc. is the basis for efficient improvement and 
enhancement of CGI's existing work and possibility to upgrade 
joint work of SGA, CGI and private companies within the 
frame of realizing the Program of State Survey and Real Estate 
Cadastre for the period 2001-2005. 
2. CRONO GIP CONTENT 
Norwegian assistance to Croatia has been initiated by request of 
the Government of the Republic of Croatia to the Norwegian 
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Norwegian Mapping Authority — 
Statens Kartverk (SK) has been contracted to act on behalf of 
Norway in the process of planning and implementation of 
CRONO GIP, together with SGA and CGI on Croatian side. 
During December 2001 the initial Agreement between SK, 
SGA and CGI was signed in Oslo for the implementation of the 
project for enhancing the capabilities of the Croatian 
Government to build a National Spatial Data Infrastructure. 
After tendering procedure executed in Norway consultant 
company, Program Management and Mapping (PMM) has been 
selected to carry out the consultancy work and in the same time 
some consultants from Croatian private companies were 
included in PMM consultant team. CRONO GIP has formally 
started to be realized during June 2002. On the basis of 
CRONO GIP, the realization of additional extension of the 
project has been defined at the end of 2002. During December 
2002 the second Agreement between SK, SGA and CGI has 
been signed in Zagreb regarding significant content extension 
with respect to the initial CRONO GIP agreement. Because of 
that one can recognize the realization of two very strongly 
connected projects CRONO GIP I and CRONO GIP II. 
The main areas of CRONO GIP I activities (Statens Kartverk, 
2001): 
- A Establishment of the capacity within SGA to scan and 
vectorise existing paper maps (cadastral maps, 
Croatian basic maps in scale 1:5000, etc.) 
- Development and implementation of a database 
within SGA for storage and use of data resulting from 
the on-going production of new topographic maps in 
the scale 1:25000 
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- A Establishment of a capacity within CGI to control the 
quality of geographic data produced for the Croatian 
Government by private companies. 
Main areas of CRONO GIP II activities (Statens Kartverk, 
2002): 
- Production of digital cadastral maps within SGA to 
enhance the capacity developed by CRONO GIP I 
- Scanning and vectorisation of existing topographic 
maps in the scale 1:5000 within SGA 
- Enhancement of capacity of CGI to control quality of 
geodetic works 
- Establishment of a pilot geographic information 
system for the Croatian national park of Kornati. 
In the following chapters special attention will be given to 
CRONO GIP I activities directly connected with CGI, apart 
from the fact that SGA and CGI are strongly dependant and 
mutually involved in the project realization. 
2.1 CRONO GIP objectives, expected results and activities 
related to the CGI 
Within the frame of CRONO GIP I, objectives, expected results 
and planned activities are in accordance with fundamental 
strategic decision that CGI should be the main quality controller 
of "geodetic products" produced by private geodetic and 
surveying companies at the state level. In that sense, one should 
consider that the project activities are related to the three main 
geodetic products, i.e. digital topographic (vector) data, TK25 
and DOF. 
Main objective: 
- CGI shall be able to control the quality of geographic 
data (geodetic products) produced by private 
companies for the Croatian Government 
Expected results: 
- CGI shall be able to perform satisfactory controlling 
of the quality of topographic (vector) data, TK25 and 
DOF produced by private companies 
- CGI shall be able to prepare draft regulations and 
standards in line with internationally accepted 
standards, to be applied by private companies for 
assuring and documenting the production quality. 
Planned activities: 
- Specification and verification of controlling 
procedures and related methods to be applied by CGI 
taking due notice of internationally accepted 
standards and methods 
- Verifying existing regulations and standards for 
quality assurance in production of geographic data by 
comparing these to internationally accepted 
regulations and standards (ISO, CEN, etc.) 
- Drafting new and improved regulations and standards 
(if found appropriate) 
- Specification of the requirements concerning 
technical equipment, instruments and software needed 
at CGI to be able to make relevant quality controls 
- Procurement, installation and testing of instruments, 
hardware and software needed for quality control 
- Education, specialization and training in the use of 
the equipment and software 
- Practical execution of controls on final products and 
relevant intermediate data resulting from various 
steps within the production of TK25 and DOF 
- Informing relevant users, private companies and 
public institutions about development of regulations 
and standards and enhancing the awareness of 
international standards.