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Digital Topographic Mapping Project in Burkina Faso Final Report Burkina Faso Geographic Institute of Burkina Faso Digital Topographic Mapping Project in Burkina Faso (Technical Cooperation for Development Planning) Final Report Summary August 2014 Japan International Cooperation Agency Aero Asahi Corporation Kokusai Kogyo Co., Ltd. EI JR 14-155 Exchange Rate EUR1＝¥138.49 XOF1＝¥0.211 As of July 2014 Digital Topographic Mapping Project in Burkina Faso (Technical Cooperation for Development Planning) Final Report Summary A baobab tree near the Office of the President in Ouaga 2000 “For the future!!” “Pour l'avenir!!” “A map is better than a thousand words!!” “Une carte vaut mieux que mille mots!!” IGB Study Area Photos taken in Burkina Faso IGB building Signing the Inception Report Discussion about field identification in Burkina Faso Discussion about specifications Vehicles for study with a winch Guidance on GNSS observation (using GNSS equipment owned by IGB) Guidance on leveling observation by a team member by a team member Ground control point pricking work (GCP03) Opening seminar attended by Japanese ambassador Opening seminar: Mr. Tapsoba, Director General of IGB Meeting of topographic map data users after opening seminar Participants in 1st UEMOA technical seminar for wide-area collaboration Second day of 1st UEMOA technical seminar for wide-area collaboration: Scene of country-by-country interview 1st UEMOA technical seminar for wide-area collaboration: Representatives of Burkina Faso, Senegal and organaizers Pupils studying a map in the Lecture Tour Team Leader of the JICA Study Team interviewed during the Lecture Tour 2nd UEMOA technical seminar for wide-area collaboration: Representatives of JICA, Embassy of Japan, Ministry of Transport and IGB 2nd UEMOA technical seminar for wide-area collaboration: Closing address by His Excellency, Ambassador Plenipotentiary of Japan, Mr. Futaishi Participants in 2nd UEMOA technical seminar for wide-area collaboration: 8 UEMOA member countries and Guinea, JICA and JICA Study Team Abbreviations No. Abbreviation Description ALOS (Advanced Land Observing Satellite 1 ALOS “Daichi”) Advanced visible and near infrared radiometer installed on the ALOS: Advanced Visible and Near Infrared It can create multipurpose color 2 AVNIR-2 Radiometer type 2 images using a total of four wavelength bands, i.e. blue, green, red and near-infrared. 3 BDOT Base de Données d’Occupation des Terres Land Occupation Database 4 BFTM Burkina Faso Transverse Mercator Base Nationale de Données 5 BNDT National Topographic Database Topographiques General Directorate of Mining, Geology 6 BUMIGEB and Quarries 7 BUNASOLS National Institute of Soil Charged coupled device, a type of 8 CCD Charge Coupled Device solid state image sensor Division of Capacity Development, Information and Environmental 9 DCIME/CONNED Monitoring/National Council for Environment and Sustainable Development Department of Environmental Economics DEES/ 10 and Statistics/Ministry of Environment and MEDD Sustainable Development 11 DEM Digital Elevation Model A CAD file format supported by 12 DGN Design File MicroStation International Institute of Water 13 2iE Environmental Engineering A drawing data file format supported 14 DWG Drawing File by Autodesk. A file format for drawing data created 15 DXF Drawing Exchange Format with CAD software 16 EU European Union Economic Community of West African 17 ECOWAS States (Communauté économique des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest) 18 FAO Food and Agriculture Organization Common currency unit used in many 19 FCFA Franc Communauté française d'Afrique West African countries 20 GCP Ground Control Point 21 GIS Geographic Information Sｙstem 22 GLONASS Global Navigation Satellite System 23 GNI Gross National Income 24 GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System 25 GPS Global Positioning System One of the reference ellipsoids 26 GRS Geodetic Reference System 1980 constituting the World Geodetic System 27 HDD Hard Disk Drive 28 IGB Institut Géographique du Burkina Geographic Institute of Burkina Faso 29 IMF International Monetary Fund 30 INERA Institute of Agricultural Environment 31 ITRF International Terrestrial Reference Frame 32 INSD Institute of Demography International Organization for 33 ISO Standardization 34 JICA Japan International Cooperation Agency 35 JBcarte Japan, Burkina Faso Mapping Project A file format developed to display geographic data on Google-based 36 KML Keyhole Markup Language browsers: It is supported not only by Google-based browsers but also by various GIS applications. 37 KMZ Keyhole Markup Zip A zipped KML text file format Software to analyze GPS observation 38 LGO Leica Geo Office results Software for photogrammetric data 39 LPS Leica Photogrammetric Suits extraction from images 40 MCA Millennium Challenge Account 41 MMS Mobile Mapping System 42 NMO National Mapping Organization 43 NSDI National Spatial Data Infrastructure Acquisition of technologies and 44 OJT On the Job Training knowledge from practical working experience A file format for electronic 45 PDF Portable Document Format documents developed by Adobe Systems Indicator for appropriateness of 46 PDOP Position Dilution of Precision geometry of satellite positions Optical sensor using the visible Panchromatic Remote-sensing Instrument wavelength bands of ALOS capable 47 PRISM for Stereo Mapping of observing the ground surface with 2.5 m spatial resolution Coefficients of rational polynomials 48 RPC Rational Polynomial Coefficients describing relationship between satellite images and topography 49 SHP Shape File A data file format supported by GIS National Electricity Company of Burkina Société Nationale Burkinabé 50 SONABEL Faso d'Electricité Union économique et monétaire West African Economic and 51 UEMOA ouest-africaine Monetary Union 52 UPS Uninterruptable Power Supply 53 UTM Universal Transverse Mercator 54 WFP World Food Program One of the reference ellipsoids 55 WGS84 World Geodetic System 1984 constituting the World Geodetic System List of Tables, Figures and Photos Chapter 1 Outline of Study No. Figure No. Figure heading 1 1-1 Organizational structure of IGB 2 1-2 Study area positions and area covered in supplied satellite images No. Table No. Table heading 1 1-1 Composition of the Study Team and their main work 2 1-2 Personnel plan Chapter 2 Implementation Status of Study Operations No. Figure No. Figure heading 1 2-1 Index map for aerial photography 2 2-2 BFTM orthogonal coordinate system 3 2-3 Blocks for aerial triangulation 4 2-4 Aerial triangulation workflow 5 2-5 Scene IDs after change 6 2-6 Map of digital plotting/compilation sheet divisions (North Block) 7 2-7 Map of digital plotting/compilation sheet divisions (Ouagadougou Block) 8 2-8 Photographs of planimetric features taken with a GPS camera and the result of the verification of their locations 9 2-9 A topographic map after the map symbolization (ND30XVII-1a) 10 2-10 Area covered by created orthophotos No. Table No. Table heading 1 2-1 Operation workflow 2 2-2 List of existing topographic maps 3 2-3 Survey criteria 4 2-4 Aerial triangulation results 5 2-5 Participant list of Presentation ceremony No. Photo No. Photo heading 1 2-1 GCP-01 2 2-2 GPS control point 2BG399 3 2-3 IGB technicians participated in the technology transfer on field identification and field verification 4 2-4 Discussion about interpretation method 5 2-5 Image interpretation in progress 6 2-6 C/P member explaining to another member 7 2-7 Field identification by interview 8 2-8 Training on operation of the tablet (in an office) 9 2-9 Training on operation of the tablet (at IGB premises) 10 2-10 Interview with an official of a local administration 11 2-11 Interview with a village leader 12 2-12 Presentation Ceremony of the Topographic Maps (from left to right: Mr. Morishita, Chief Representative of JICA Burkina Faso Office, Mr. Ishihara, Parliamentary Vice-Minister, Mr. Ouedraogo, Minister of Infrastructure, Development and Transport, Mr. Futaishi, Ambassador of Japan to Burkina Faso and Mr. Tapsoba, Director General of IGB) 13 2-13 The Parliamentary Vice-Minister, Mr. Ishihara, Presents a Topographic Map to the Minister of Infrastructure, Development and Transport, Mr. Ouedraogo 14 2-14 The Minister of Infrastructure, Development and Transport, Mr. Ouedraogo, and the Parliamentary Vice-Minister, Mr. Ishihara, Inspect the Training Room of the IGB Project 15 2-15 The Assistant Team Leader of the Project, Mr. Ikeda, Explains the Topographic Maps to the Parliamentary Vice-Minister, Mr. Ishihara, during the Coffee Break Chapter 3 Promotion of Data Utilization Plan No. Figure No. Figure heading 1 3-1 Comparison of data distribution methods 2 3-2 Relationship Diagram of Research in Population Science No. Table No. Table heading 1 3-1 Seminar participant list (UEMOA Member Countries and Guinea) 2 3-2 Seminar participant list (GSI, Private consultants of Japan) 3 3-3 Seminar participant list (Embassy, JICA, UEMOA) 4 3-4 Main areas of recommended utilization and the necessity of the topographic map data No. Photo No. Photo heading 1 3-1 Mr. Tapsoba, Director General of IGB 2 3-2 Mr. Sugiura, Ambassador Plenipotentiary 3 3-3 Administrative Vice Minister of the Government of Burkina Faso 4 3-4 EU ambassador and Ms. Harada, Second Secretary 5 3-5 Mr. Moriya, Chief Representative of JICA Burkina Faso Office 6 3-6 Panel explanation by Mr. Belem, IGB Technical Director 7 3-7 Data user meeting 8 3-8 JICA Burkina Faso Office and UEMOA 9 3-9 Major participants in the Seminar 10 3-10 Lecture by Mr. Bako of IGB in the lecture tour 11 3-11 Pupils listening to a lecture and
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