Case study: how Green Light helped modernize Kyrgyzstan's geodetic system
Together with the South Korean consortium GEO2/LX/EGIS, Green Light built the hardware base for Kyrgyzstan's transition from the old СК-42/63 coordinate systems to the global WGS 84 standard - servers, storage systems, SAN, a tape library, the network core and as-built documentation for the State Agency for Land Resources, Cadastre, Geodesy and Cartography under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic.
In 2022, Kyrgyzstan and South Korea launched a joint project to modernize the management of land data in the country. The main objective was to lay the digital foundation for e-government and the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). The project ran for 3 years.
The central stage was the transition from outdated and fragmented coordinate systems (СК-42, СК-63) to the single global standard WGS 84. The system integrator Green Light acted as the technology partner of the Korean consortium (GEO2, LX, EGIS), supplied all the required equipment and prepared it for operation.
A hardware base for satellites, drones and 1:25 000 digital maps
The project required a powerful hardware and software complex capable of processing and storing vast volumes of data in real time: satellite imagery, drone data and digital maps of the entire territory of the country at a scale of 1:25 000. The Green Light team took on the preparation of the infrastructure:
- Compiling the specification: selecting servers, storage systems, a tape library and SAN switches.
- Designing the logical network structure, IP addressing and routing rules.
- Preparing the environment for server installation, providing power supply and laying cable routes.
Within tight deadlines, the integrator's engineers prepared equipment from leading global vendors. At the customer's site, they installed the equipment, carried out patching with optical and copper patch cords, fully labelled the cable routes, and also updated the firmware to current versions and configured the network.
Green Light specialists also brought up the network core, deployed SAN switches to connect the servers to the storage systems and provided Internet access for the new server equipment, which was critically important for the work of the international development team. For backup purposes, a tape library was installed, connected and configured.
As a result, the Green Light team created a reliable hardware base, and the engineers assembled the infrastructure into a single network and connected it to the Internet, which allowed the customer's DevOps engineers to gain access to the servers and complete the basic configuration of the operating systems (Linux) and the deployment of the target geoinformation systems on time. In addition, Green Light prepared and handed over a full package of as-built documentation: switching diagrams, address tables and configuration specifications.
Kyrgyzstan has moved to WGS 84
In November 2025, the State Agency for Land Resources, Cadastre, Geodesy and Cartography under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic, together with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of the Republic of Korea and the leading Korean companies GEO2, EGIS and LX, with the support of the Embassy of the Republic of Korea, announced Kyrgyzstan's successful transition to the world geodetic system.
The new technologies will improve the accuracy of spatial data and create a foundation for the further development of the national infrastructure of geodetic and cartographic information.
