Monday, April 20th, 2015
Senator Loren Legarda called for the establishment of a comprehensive map of coral resources nationwide to help leaders and lawmakers arrive at a policy for food security in the Philippines. An updated comprehensive mapping of the country’s coral...
Tuesday, April 7th, 2015
Filipinos may heave a sigh of relief over news that one of two microsatellites slated for launch into space in 2016 may play a crucial role in improving weather forecasting, managing disasters, and protecting forests, among other benefits....
Tuesday, April 7th, 2015
The Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Soils and Water Management (BSWM) and the Inanglupa Movement will cooperate in enacting policy changes in the Philippines and help protect the country’s precious soil and water resources. BSWM Director Dr. Silvino Tejada...
Monday, March 16th, 2015
Researchers in Japan have teamed with the government of the Philippines to develop satellites that can examine the damage caused by typhoons and massive rainstorms in the Southeast Asian nation. Six technicians from the Philippines are already working...
Tuesday, November 11th, 2014
The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in the Philippines has elaborated geohazard maps for 131 out of the 171 cities and municipalities that were hit by the typhoon Haiyan -known...
Tuesday, October 7th, 2014
The Philippines get hit with 20 tropical storms every year, on average. Some of them are severe enough to require people to evacuate their homes and head to crisis centers. But since it's a rapidly developing area, evacuation...
Wednesday, September 24th, 2014
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has completed an update to the Mindanao, Philippines map, delivering a 1:50,000-scale map that now supercedes the 1:200,000-scale map made in the 1960s. This GIS-based mapping update has now been turned...
Thursday, August 7th, 2014
Supergeo Technologies, a leading global provider of GIS software and solutions, announces that Philippines National Irrigation Systems (NIA) upgrades the country’s parcellary maps through SuperGIS Desktop to elevate the efficiency of irrigation planning and billing for agricultural...
Thursday, August 7th, 2014
The 2.2 million vehicles a day that grind away on Manila’s crumbling road system cost the country 876 billion pesos a year, or more than $20 billion, in lost productivity and wasted energy, according to a recent...
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014
The government plans to roll out massive infrastructure projects over a five-year period to address the lack of facilities that are seen to fill the gap in the country’s transportation infrastructure in the next decade and spur economic...
