Read Full Monograph: GIS-Based Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation (V&A) and Disaster Risk Assessments for Metro Cebu The following are the specific objectives of this research project, whose results are narrated in this monograph: a. To establish and develop an evidence-based decision-support platform and...
Summary •Several areas in Southern Philippines experienced accumulated 24-hour rainfall exceeding 150 mm during the onslaught of Tropical Depression Auring on Feb. 20-22, 2021. •Multi-temporal Synthetic Aperture Radar images detected flooding in the municipalities of San Miguel, Tago and Tandag City in the...
By Ma. Flordeliza P. Del Castillo1, Patricia Mae J. Paraiso1, May Celine T.M. Vicente1, Ma. Laurice P. Jamero2, Gemma T. Narisma3,4 1 Geomatics for Environment and Development, Manila Observatory 2 Resilience Collaboratory, Manila Observatory 3 Regional Climate Systems 4 Department of Physics, Ateneo...
The Resilience Collaboratory led the first scoping meeting for the Climate and Disaster Risk Assessment (CDRA) Coaching and Mentoring (C/M) Project in Iloilo City last 23-24 May 2019. This is a part of the Science and Technology track of the Resilient Local Government...
The Manila Observatory hosted a Climate and Disaster Risk Assessment (CDRA) Training for partner local government units (LGU) of the National Resilience Council (NRC) last 8-10 October 2018. For the first part of the training, 34 participants from LGUs and 11 from five...
Ms. Ma. Antonia Loyzaga, Executive Director of the Manila Observatory (MO), and Dr. Celine Vicente, Head of the Geomatics for Environment and Development program, participated in the recently conducted Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) in Sendai, Japan, from 14...
In 2012 and through the DOST-PCIEERD, the Committee on Space Technology Applications (COSTA) foresaw the need to develop a 10-Year National STA Masterplan for the Philippines. The Space Science and Technology Applications (SSTA) Baseline Research Project was then conceived in 2013 in order...
In response to the multiple disasters experienced in Asia, the Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum (APRSAF) proposed the creation of Sentinel Asia in 2005. Sentinel Asia is an international collaboration of space agencies and disaster management agencies, providing disaster management support in the...
Last 25-26 March 2015, Ms. Ma. Flordeliza P. Del Castillo of the Geomatics for Environment and Development program attended the Practical Application of the Earth Remote Sensing Technologies to Solve Social and Economic Challenges Workshop held in Moscow, Russia. This workshop delivered lectures...
QUICK SUMMARY Tropical cyclone track and intensity Hagupit moves towards the vicinity of Marinduque, Batangas and Oriental Mindoro (consensus in multi-agency forecast tracks). There are differences in the model forecast on when Hagupit will exit land into the West Philippine Sea. Weakening in...
The Observatory in partnership with Chevron Geothermal Philippines Holdings Inc. and the provincial government of Albay created a sustainable development guidebook for the local governments of Tiwi and Malinao. GED contributed to the spatial analysis of the area, including its land use and ...
With the support of Sentinel Asia, the International Charter Space and Major Disasters and the Canadian Space Agency, GED generated several Flood Footprint maps for the heavy rainfall events of the southwest monsoon season in 2012 in the greater Metro Manila area. The ...