Long-Term Plan for Basic Survey

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The Long-Term Plan for Basic Surveys (here In after referred to as "Long-Term Plan") is a plan on the Basic Surveys, which is conducted by the Geographical Survey Institute (hereinafter referred to as "the GSI") as the survey that serves as the basis for all other surveys, and Long-Term Plan shall be stipulated by the Minister of land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism based on Article 12 of the Survey Act.
Long-Term Plan shall be established in order to achieve the purpose of the Survey Act, which is to avoid redundancy in surveys and to assure survey accuracy by publicly announcing the target and scale of the Basic Surveys in advance.
So far, six successive Long-Term Plans　have been formulated and implemented every ten years since the first Plan in 1953, to meet the changing social needs. The ongoing Long-Term Plan has started in FY 2009, and shall be valid for ten years until FY 2018.

Aim of the Long-Term Plan for Basic Survey

According to the Basic Act on the Advancement of Utilizing Geospatial Information (Act No. 63 of 2007 – hereinafter referred to as the "NSDI Act") enacted in 2007, information that represents the position of specific point or extent in geospace and its associated information are defined as geospatial information, and it is considered extremely important to promote its advanced utilization for creating an economic society in which people can live their lives securely and abundantly.
Therefore this Long-Term Plan aims to clarify the policies, for which GSI should take initiative in implementing, in order to realize an advanced geospatial information utilization society in which geospatial information including survey results will be used more effectively based on the newly enacted NSDI Act in addition to the Survey Act.

Full text of the Long-Term Plan for Basic Survey

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