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NICGIS for food security
and environment preservation
Louise Hazel Trinidad
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October 1999
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The National Infrastructure Center for Geospatial
How to establish NICGIS Information System (NICGIS) would
provide maps NICGIS can be DA's needed to avoid the economic
and environmental degradation in the country It will also
provide the scientific knowledge needed to balance sustainable
development, economic progress, food and water securityand
in meeting the challenges of the 21st century.
Dr. Steve Godilano, Geospatial Information Specialist
from the International Rice Research Institute(IRRI) gave
a lecture on NICGIS during the BAR seminar series last August
18, 1999 at the ATI-BAR-CERDAF Conference Room. He discussed
the possible CERDAF Conference Room He discussed the possible
benefits and implications of setting up of a NICGIS in the
Philippines. According to Godilano, NCGIS will help predict
the weather and provide information on how to preserve our
natural resources.
Advantages of NICGIS
The NICGIS would make accurate and timely geographic data
readily available to support sound decisions over a geographic
area with minimum duplication of effort and at a reasonable
cost.
Once NICGIS is created, it will support the
application of geospatial data in transportation, community
development, agriculture, emergency response, environment
management, local governance and information technology.
How to Establish NICGIS
NICGIS can be established through DA's partnership with national
and local agencies, academic institutions and private organizations.
The new partners will then integrate existing data into specific
basemaps. They will also collect, assess and provide access
to scientific information needed to understand the current
status of the nation's natural resources, how the status change
and what cause the changes.
For its completion, NICGIS needs the following resource requirements:
complete Landsat 7 satellite coverage of the entire archipelago
as the basemap . It will be geo-referenced to the topographic
map archives at NAMRIA
NICGIS will be beneficial to the environment.
This technology will provide a better understanding of the
effects of the climate change. It will also help in deriving
new economic wealth from natural resources at the same time
helps in the rehabilitation of the degrading environment.
"Through this technology; Dr. Godilano also hopes that
the National Information Network (NIN) of the Department of
Agriculture will give access to more information for the whole
RDE family. 
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