Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Selects Seongnam-si, Hongcheon-gun, and Jincheon-gun as Model Projects for Spatial Information

Seongnam City 'New Opportunities in Spatial Information Created by Drones' Project.

[Asia Economy Reporter Kangwook Cho] The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced on the 3rd that Seongnam City in Gyeonggi Province was selected as the top project in the ‘Model Leading Project for Local Government Spatial Information’ contest held at the end of last year to promote the spread of the ‘Digital Twin Land.’ Hongcheon County in Gangwon Province and Jincheon County in Chungcheongbuk Province were chosen as excellent projects.

Digital twin is a key task of the Korean New Deal, a technology that implements real spatial information in a virtual world and conducts simulations to predict results. It is attracting attention as an essential element for advancing national and urban administration by supporting the resolution of urban and regional issues through linked data analysis.

Accordingly, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport held a contest for the model leading project for spatial information targeting local governments nationwide to discover excellent business models such as digital twin utilization cases and to spread them across the country.

The top-selected project by Seongnam City, ‘New Opportunities for Spatial Information Created by Drones,’ is a project that builds heat maps using drones and utilizes them for analysis such as selecting locations for planting and forest creation for carbon neutrality. It received high scores for providing citizen-experience spatial information services, including welfare support to cope with heat waves, along with differentiated content.

The excellent project ‘Convergence Utilization Platform Construction Project to Support Small and Medium-sized Smart Cities’ (Hongcheon County, Gangwon Province) applies 3D stereoscopic model automatic production technology to build a digital twin convergence platform foundation. It showcased projects reflecting the characteristics of small and medium-sized cities, such as responding to increasing vacant houses, tourism industry site analysis, and agricultural and livestock disaster prevention, highlighting its potential for utilization and expansion.

Also, the ‘Spatial Information Integrated System Construction and Orthophoto Production Project’ (Jincheon County, Chungcheongbuk Province) is a project to build a system that integrates and manages various spatial information owned by Jincheon County and produces orthophotos (images created continuously by removing terrain relief from aerial and satellite images) for major changing areas. It presented various application fields including urban surveys, cadastral work, national land surveys, public construction, river management, and forest protection, and is expected to establish a standard process for orthophoto production using drones.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport plans to support the top project selected as the model leading spatial information project this year with 70 million won and each excellent project with 50 million won as subsidies for spatial information projects promoted this year. In addition, to make the model leading projects exemplary for other local governments, they plan to introduce them through the Smart Land Expo and the local government spatial information policy officers’ workshop to be held in July.

Nam Young-woo, Director of the National Land Information Policy Division, said, “Spatial information is the core infrastructure of digital twin, and especially for the development of convergence platforms considering urban characteristics, the utilization of spatial information is essential,” adding, “We will do our best to actively discover exemplary projects such as digital twin utilization cases and spread them nationwide.”

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