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Tuesday, 29 July 2008 |
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Philippine-Belgium cooperation marks a continuing process of
exploration and exchange in research and institutional collaboration. For the ESSC and Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (FUNDP)/ Université Catholique de Louvain
(UCL) partnership, putting the Philippines on a global map takes on new
level of dynamism, new patterns of relationships and ultimately,
knowledge building.A significant contribution of this exchange is
building people's capacities to collectively manage and plan towards an
improvement of their way of life through a more responsive management
of the environment.
By promoting and sustaining the applications of
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Remote Sensing (RS) technologies
in community-based natural resource management, development planning
and policy, trade, investment and international development assistance,
decision-maling are enhanced. In the Philippines, particularly in
Mindanao, the ESSC-FUNDP/UCL partnership highlights the solid research
foundation in the use of geomatic tools to facilitate greater
understanding of the impact of human activities on the environment.
Even
with issues and concerns surrounding GIS and RS in the Philippines,
potentials and challenges of these technologies are acknoledge in
formulating national standards, improvement on FUNDP statistical
classification algorithms in the context of tropical forests, GIS
integration in barangay development planning, and mobilizing people
from universities to increase GIS awareness and increase their
appreciation of community derived data.
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