Korean New Deal Flagship Project 'Digital Twin'... Government-Industry Meeting Held

[Asia Economy Reporter Moon Jiwon] The government and industry are joining forces to successfully promote the 'Digital Twin,' one of the 10 major representative projects of the Korean New Deal.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced on the 30th that it will hold a 'Digital Twin Industry Meeting' chaired by Park Sunho, the 1st Vice Minister of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, at 2 p.m. on the 31st at the Seoul Headquarters of the Korea Land and Geospatial Informatix Corporation in Gangnam-gu, Seoul.

Digital Twin is the implementation of twins of real spaces and objects in a three-dimensional digital space. Its purpose is to support new industries through analysis and prediction via simulation and to manage the land safely.

The meeting will be attended by Park Kyungyeol, Chairman of the Spatial Information Industry Cooperative, Kim Seokjong, President of the Spatial Information Industry Association, and representatives of major companies.

On this day, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport will announce major Digital Twin projects, and the industry will propose commercialization strategies and policy support plans using Digital Twin.

The Ministry plans to establish the core infrastructure of Digital Twin, including nationwide three-dimensional digital maps, by 2022.

The three-dimensional maps will include a digital elevation model (3D terrain map) expressing height values of major areas such as urban areas and a high-resolution image map (from 25cm to 12cm resolution).

The precision road map, a core infrastructure for autonomous vehicle driving, will be built for about 14,000 km of national roads nationwide.

Representing spatial information companies in the industry, Kim Seongho, CEO of EasyGIS Co., Ltd., will present industry opinions for the success of Digital Twin, commercialization strategies, and the application of security technologies.

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