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April 1-30, 2003
GIS application in irrigation
emphasized
by Likha C. Cuevas
To provide an understanding and hands-on
experience of the issues and requirements for implementing
and applying geographic information systems technology
in agriculture and natural resource management, the
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Application in
Irrigation Systems Management Training was conducted
at the Water Resources Management Center, Central Luzon
State University (CLSU) on March 24-28, 2003. Dr. Esteban
C. Godilano, Information Communication Technology Section
(ICTS) adviser for Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
of the Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) and the
Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization
- SEAMEO Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research
in Agriculture (SEAMEO-SEARCA), served as lecturer.
Topics discussed in the GIS lecture were:
introduction to ArcView 3.2; creation of digital map;
map anatomy and tabular data; spatial analysis and topological
overlay; interpolation, buffering, and geostatistics;
climate analysis and map lay-out; clipping features
and ArcView avenue; screen digitizing, wrapping and
transformation; spatial analysis using ModelBuilder;
topological overlay and cartographic modeling; and metadata
development.
This training aimed to develop human resource
capability needed to establish a GIS facility. At present,
Agriculture and Fisheries Research and Development Information
Systems (AFRDIS) member-institutions and BAR are not
equipped with knowledge and skills in GIS technology
and its applications.
GIS is the core component of AFRDIS under
the Bureau. GIS technology geographically targets technologies
developed in agriculture and fisheries and integrate
the biophysical, climatic, and socio-economic databases
for efficient and effective resource allocation. It
is also a management tool that can synthesize, analyze,
retrieve, and produce spatial information needed by
resource agencies for managing referenced research outputs.
One of the features of this system is the integration
and analysis of data from various sources and present
the output in a geographic environment. Policy makers
in agriculture, business, transportation, and other
service organizations benefit from GIS. 
April 1-30 2003 Articles:
::
DA
creates open academy for Philippine agriculture
::
PCA
collaborates with international institutions to unravel
coconut genome
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EU
tariff preferences benefit RP
::
Making
his mark
::
GIS
application in irrigation emphasized
::
BAR
joins Asia IT and C workshop
::
Philippine
agri’l engineering standards launched
::
El
Niño and coping with it
:: What’s
ailing our sweet potatoes?
::
The
world’s first GM peanut
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