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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