CRONO GIP I realization started in June 2002 and the expected
end of project is December 2003 including CRONO GIP II
extension regarding CGI quality control activity. It should also
be mentioned that apart from financing the consultancy
services, the Norwegian funding within the frame of CRONO
GIP I covers the amount of 600.000,00 NOK for procurement
of equipment (hardware and software) and training with
additional CGI participation in project with 400.000,00 NOK.
In similar way, within the frame of CRONO GIP II, the
additional amount of 310.000,00 NOK from Norwegian side
and 500.000,00 NOK from Croatian side are set aside.
3. REALIZATION OF CRONO GIP I
In the period from June 2002 till May 2003, intensive activities
on the realization of CRONO GIP I have been carried out.
Simultanesously with procurement of equipment for quality
control, trainings of CGI employees and verification of existing
Croatian regulations, products specifications and standards,
crucial activity is connected with the development and defining
of the CGI Quality System based on internationally accepted
standards adapted to the Croatian situation. The Quality System
should be based (Program Management and Mapping, 2002) on
transparent set of documentation consisting of:
- General quality guidelines
- Producers (private companies) quality plan require-
ments
- Products specifications
- . Control methods descriptions
- Specifications of sampling and tolerances for
rejection and re-work of specific geodetic product
and should be developed and implemented in three hierarchical
levels:
- 1 Level — Base documents describing overall princip-
les of CGI's quality control work
- MH Level — Base documents defining the products to be
controlled, referring to the three basic products:
digital topographic (vector) data, TK25 (digital raster
and paper form) and DOF
- IM Level — Procedures and checklists necessary for
undertaking all control work.
In addition to the three basic products involved in CGI's quality
control activities additional products (sub-products) are also
included having in mind important intermediate steps in the
production processes: Aerial photo and ground control,
Aerotriangulation, Scanned photo and Digital Terrain Model
(DTM). Important attention in realization of CGI's quality
control system is given to the development of new and the
improvement of existing Product Specifications to insure
appropriate and transparent quality of production of the
Topographic Data mapped and produced from aerial photos in
the scale of 1:20000 including quality elements and sub-
elements and tolerances like fundamental basis for quality
control. Precise and detailed Product Specifications are of great
importance not only for CGI's control work but for producers,
users and government institutions as well.
Development and implementation of CGI's Quality System is
still, till the end of May 2003, an ongoing process with a lot of
results and significant enhancements of existing CGlI's
capacities to undertake very important activities regarding
geodetic products quality control.
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3.1 Equipment and trainings
Within the frame of CRONO GIP I, the realization set of quite
important activities consists of specification, procurement,
testing and implementation of the technical equipment,
hardware and software needed at CGI to be able to make
relevant quality controls paralel with specialization, education
and training of CGI's employees to efficiently use technical
equipment. These activities will be almost fully finished till the
end of May 2003 except the training at photogrammetric digital
station and practical control training on final geodetic products.
With respect to the equipment, with already existing CGI
equipment infrastructure, following items are procured and they
started to be used in every day work:
- Digital photogrammetric station hardware
appropriate photogrammetric software
- GPS hardware and software
- CAD and GIS software
- DTM software
- Plotting and presentation hardware.
Education and training of CGI employees regarding procured
equipment and the whole content of CRONO GIP I activities
was organised and already almost concluded at two levels. The
first level was realized within the frame of hardware/software
vendor trainings:
- Feature Manipulation Engine (FME),
- . Oracle Spatial,
- GPS hardware and software,
while the second level was realized within the frame of direct
consultations during the organized trainings:
- Microstation,
- Geomedia,
- Scope, etc.
with lots of elements of general and specific knowledge transfer
in the fields of organization, management and execution of
specific tasks.
Like very illustrative example of training efficiency and overall
knowledge transfer, regarding the fact that specialised works
has never be done in CGI before CRONO GIP realization, the
quality control of upgraded and topologically cleaned digital
topographical (vector) data produced by six Croatian private
companies has been carried out with remarkable success.
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3.2 Further activities
Till the moment of completing the work on this paper, all
CRONO GIP activities have not been concluded yet. In
accordance within general project setting they are in
simultaneous realization with specification and documentation
development, trainings on job, definition of practical procedures
and methods for quality control are overlapping each other.
It should be emphasised that excellent collaboration of
responsible institutions, companies and people involved in the
project realization exists at all levels, beginning with formal
level of coordination between SK, SGA and CGI to the level of
professional work and collaboration between Norwegian and
Croatian consultants with SGA and CGI employees.
On the basis of so far achieved results it is realistic to expect
that capacities and capabilities of CGI will be significantly
enhanced and improved in a very limited time frame and that
CGI will be able to maintain and undertake all quality control
works in future time with appropriate transparency and
efficiency for the benefit of all involved parties.
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