Nepalese Journal on Geoinformatics Number: 2 Jestha 2060 BS May - June 2003 AD An annual publication of Survey Department, His Majesty’s Government of Nepal Cover Page Photo HRH Crown Prince Paras Bir Bikram Shah Dev inaugurating the 23rd ACRS by lighting traditional oil lamp by Sukunda. Seen at the picture are from right Prof. Shunji Murai, General Secretary, AARS, Mr. Ananta Raj Pandey, Secretary, Ministry of Land Reform and Management and Rt. Hon. Mr. Lokendra Bahadur Chand, Prime Minister. Published by His Majesty’s Government of Nepal Survey Department Min Bhawan, Kathmandu Nepal Price : Rs 100 No. of copies : 500 © Copyright reserved by Survey Department Printed at Ajima Printers Bhaktapur Members of Advisory Council Babu Ram Acharya Chairperson Sri Prakash Mahara Narayan Bhattarai Tirtha Bahadur Pradhananga RajaRamChhatakuli Member Member Member Member Narayan Prasad Adhikari Agnidhar Sharma Bamdev Dip Jagat Raj Paudel Member Member Member Member Secretary Members of Editorial Board Rabin Kaji Sharma Editor in chief Toya Nath Baral Durgendra Man Kayastha Mahendra Prasad Sigdel Member Member Member Jagat Raj Paudel Deepak Sharma Dahal Sushil Narshing Rajbhandari Member Member Member i Editorial United Nations declared the year 2002 AD as "International Year of the Mountains". Therefore, Survey Department proposed to organize the 23rd Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS) in Nepal to commemorate this announcement, as Nepal is a mountainous country. Asian Association on Remote Sensing (AARS) accepted the proposal and Survey Department, Nepal and Asian Association on Remote Sensing jointly organized the conference from November 25-29, 2002 in Kathmandu. The conference was one of the most important events of the Survey Department and was a most challenging task, as the department was going to experience to organize such a big event of international standard for the first time. The event became a very successful one because the department could able to gather a large number of national and international professionals related with Remote Sensing, Global Positioning System, Geographical Information System and Surveying and Mapping and conducted the conference smoothly. Besides, the addresses of the Prime Minister of Nepal, Secretary of Ministry of Land Reform and Management, Director General as well as Convenor of the conference, President of ISPRS and General Secretary of AARS and the keynote speeches from the three eminent professors and the number of exhibitors added the importance of the conference. Furthermore, the overall support and guidance by Prof. Shunji Murai, General Secretary of AARS played also a major role to be able to run the conference smoothly. The presentation of number of technical papers in the conference was also overwhelming. Therefore, this second issue of Nepalese Journal on Geoinformatics is published as a special issue on the 23rd Asian Conference on Remote Sensing in which the Editorial Board tried to give glimpses of the conference. As the conference document was limited to the participants, therefore the aim of the publication of this journal as a special issue on the 23rd ACRS is to disseminate information to other professionals from the field of Geoinformatics who missed to participate the event. Therefore, I believe, having a copy of this Journal in hand, he/she should feel that he/she did not miss the conference. It was a great surprise for us regarding the affirmative responses from the readers of the first issue of the Journal. Due to which, I felt more responsible to improve its quality or at least to maintain the present standards. So, I assure you to provide the Journals, in future, to cheer your face, not to embarrass. Finally, after successful completion of the 23rd ACRS, I flavor that Survey Department is motivated to organize next international conference in near future and therefore, I am already looking forward to dream the next international event and hope to see you all in that gathering. Editor-in-chief Jestha 2060 BS May- June 2003 AD ii Message from Director General of Survey Department I have a great pleasure in publishing the second issue of Nepalese Journal on Geoinformatics as a special issue of the 23rd Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS 2002), which was held in Kathmandu, Nepal on November 25-29, 2002 organized jointly by Survey Department, Nepal and Asian Association of Remote Sensing. The successful completion of the conference that witnessed the participants from all over the world has made the Survey Department and Geoinformatics community in Nepal very proud. The conference was very helpful in sharing the knowledge about the technical enhancement in the field of Geoinformatics. In addition, knowledge in handling such a conference participated by professionals of various levels in the subject matters, was of a great value. Remote Sensing, Global Positioning System and Geographical Information System, being fundamental disciplines of Geoinformatics, the conference encompassed all these aspects focusing on the latest trends in the surveying and mapping. Hence the various professionals, students, researchers, teachers, producers and users of this technology in the Asian region had a great opportunity in sharing the knowledge and experiences through this forum. I personally believe that this issue of the Journal is particularly aimed in presenting the overall scenario of the conference so that the readers who could not participate in the conference can have insight into it. I believe that the existence of such Journal is purely dependent on the contribution, support and co-operation from the Geoinformatics community without which it is not possible to publish such Journals. Thus, I kindly request the community to help us to maintain the continuity of the Journal. Finally, I would like to extend the gratitude to all who are directly or indirectly related to this Journal. Jestha 2060 BS Babu Ram Acharya May- June 2003 AD iii Contents S.No. Description Pages 1. Photographs of the members of advisory Council i 2. Photographs of the members of Editorial Board i 3. Editorial ii 4. Massager from Director General of Survey Department iii 5. Opening address By Rt. Honorable Prime Minister Mr. Lokendra Bhadur Chand 1 By Secretary, Ministry of Land Reform and management, Mr. Ananta Raj Pandey 2 By President, ISPRS, Prof. J.C. Trinder 3 By General Secretary, AARS, Prof. Emeritus Shunji Murai 4 By Director General, Survey Dept, HMG Mr. Babu Ram Acharya 5 By Member Secretary 23rd ARCS, Mr. Rabin Kayi Sharma 6 6. Key speech By Prof. Gottfried Konecny 7 By Mr. Ian Dowman University College, London 12 By Prof Dr Martien Molenaar ITC the Netherlands (Oral Presentation) 17 7. Closing Remarks By Secretary, Ministry of Land Reform and management Mr. Ananta Raj Paandey 18 By General Secretary, AARS, Prof. Shunji Murai 19 By Convener 23rd ACRS Mr. Babu Ram Acharya 20 8. Brief Report on the 23rd Asian Conference on Remote Sending 21 9. Managerial aspects of the 23rd Asian Conference on Remote Sending 25 - Rates of Aerial photo and map Transparency 26 10. Looking Back of the 23rd ACRS 27 - Rate of Control Points 30 11. ACES 2002 CD-ROM Proceedings 31 12. Participating in international events by the officials of Survey Department 33 - List of Exhibitors (23rd ACRS) 34 13. A Study on Digital Orthophoto Generation of Mount Everest Region 35 - Congratulation 43 - Cell for paper 43 14. Land Management and human Resource Development policies in Nepal 44 - The 23rd ACRS organization Committee members 46 15. Topographical Survey Branch with Remote sensing. 47 - List of Secretariat staff for the 23rd ACRS 52 16. An overview on time Series of Geodetic and GPS Network of Nepal 53 - Japanese Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (JSPRS) Award 57 - Technical Committee member for 23rd ACRS 57 17. Global Positioning System on Cadastral Survey of Nepal 58 18. Orthophoto Mapping A fundamental Data layer for Urban GLS in NGIT in Nepal 63 - Advisory Boards Member for 23rd ACRS 66 19. Towards strategic Planning for Building Land Information System (LIS) in Nepal 67 - Rates of Digital date Layer 74 - Rates for some publication of Survey Department 74 20. Updating Geographic Information using High Revolution Remote Sensing optional Imagery 75 - Rate of maps. 81 Opening Address Lokendra Bahadur Chand Rt. Honorable Prime Minister Your Royal Highness Crown Prince Paras Bir Bikram Shah Dev, Rt Honorables, Honorables Distinguished participants Ladies and gentlemen, First of all, I would like to express my heart-felt gratitude to His Royal Highness Crown Prince Paras Bir Bikram Shah Dev for his gracious presence at this function and for being so kind as to declare this important event to open. It gives me great pleasure to address this august gathering of experts, scientists and professionals associated with one of the key resources of our time - information. I would like to thank the organizer for this opportunity. As I stand here to speak a few words to this dignified assembly of specialists in remote sensing and GIS, representing many countries, institutions and professions, I recall with pleasure the fine morning of 15th December 1984 when I had the opportunity to address the fifth Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, also here in Kathmandu. But as I remember, it was perhaps a smaller gathering then. Nearly two decades on, I can note with satisfaction that ACRS has not only brought together an increasing number of experts, scientists and professionals, but it has also proved to be instrumental in promoting the use of this ever-advancing technology within Asia and globally. Admirable as it is for its sophistication, technology remains to be a means, however. The end is the improvement in the quality of life of the people. When we talk about the quality of life of the people, we cannot ignore the fact that many people in our part of the world live in a state of poverty.