The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) plans to tap a remote-sensing technology developed by the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB).
It said the technology could be utilized at the community level to gather data to formulate proactive policy recommendations.
“During the SARAI technology orientation, one distinct advantage is that it can be deployed at the community level, allowing agriculturists and farmers to easily apply it themselves,” said assistant director Rory Jay Dacumos of the NEDA agriculture, natural resources and environment staff. “In addition to SARAI’s unique community-level deployment capability, its most significant feature is the cost-free capture of satellite images through the Google Earth Engine. These images are then plotted in the Quantum Geographic Information System at no additional cost,” Dacumos said.
“We thank the UPLB-SARAI team, led by Dr. Victoria Maria Espaldon, for their assistance in providing valuable information to NEDA. This information will be used to craft anticipatory policy recommendations for managing food inflation,” said Dacumos.
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