President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. mentioned Monday he needs numerous companies to have entry to satellite tv for pc knowledge that may very well be utilized in agriculture, business, and environmental safety.
Marcos, who chairs the Philippine Space Council (PSA), identified in a gathering the significance of satellite tv for pc mapping which might have a number of functions.
“The reason we are signing an MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) with the Space Council is so that we can do mapping because…as I was explaining to you earlier, in terms of green, in terms of bio assets, there is now a way to quantify your nice fisheries, your agricultural activity,” he mentioned.
“It is in terms of how much carbon you’re putting out into the air. But the beginning, the first step of that, will be to map,” he added.
The chief government mentioned potential buyers who could also be carbon producers have to stability their exercise by the usage of mapping knowledge for them to develop a specific bio-diverse space in a sure location.
However, he harassed that it ought to start by mapping the whole nation in a barely totally different manner from what was being completed.
“So that’s why I was asking you that we have to make sure that the data we give [in] each different department is in a form that they can use,” Marcos mentioned.
He additional known as on PSA to maximise the Philippines’ partnerships with totally different worldwide companies which might be concerned in imaging and may very well be helpful for the nation.
National Space Week
The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) additionally proposed a decision, declaring the annual celebration of the National Space Week or Pambansang Linggo ng Kalawakan from August 8 to 14 starting subsequent 12 months.
The National Space Week, which coincides with the enactment of the Philippine Space Act on August 9, 2019, goals to advertise house consciousness, espouse the advantages of house and its affect on the lives of the individuals, have fun the contribution of Filipinos within the area of house, and encourage the longer term technology.
Marcos additionally toured the PhilSA displays displaying the nation’s satellite tv for pc applied sciences, picture acquisition, and processing capabilities by Earth remark satellites.
In October, Marcos Jr. expressed help for the improvement of the Multi-spectral Unit for Land Assessment (MULA) satellite tv for pc, which would be the largest Filipino-made satellite tv for pc. —Giselle Ombay/KG, GMA Integrated News
