COTABATO CITY-- Pedro Colina
Hill, COTABATO CITY- The Office of Civil Defense-ARMM has facilitated a
workshop and training course on Geographic Information System (GIS) to at least
fifteen (15) Enlisted Personnel of the 6th Civil Military Operations (Kasangga)
Battalion under the 6th Infantry (Kampilan) Division, Philippine Army.
The training and workshop which
takes place from September 08-10, 2016 is currently being held at the 6th CMO
(Kasangga) Battalion Camp in PC Hill, Rosary Heights 1, Cotabato City.
Engr. Amier Ashan Aplal,
Operations Officer of OCD-ARMM and Facilitator to the workshop, said the
Geographic Information System (GIS) is a computer system for capturing,
storing, checking, and displaying data related to positions on Earth's surface.
“The GIS can show us many
different kinds of data on one map. Apparently, this enables people to more
easily see, analyze, and understand patterns and relationships,” said Aplal.
Aplal said the objectives of the
workshop and training course is to orient and teach participants in using GIS
software such as QGIS and Google Earth, to demonstrate the proper and basic
functions of the software, and to guide participants in producing their own
base maps.
Further, Aplal emphasized that
with the GIS technology, people would be able to compare the locations of
different things in order to discover how they relate to each other.
“One good example, by simply
using the GIS, the same map could include sites that produce pollution, such as
gas stations, and sites that are sensitive to pollution, such as wetlands. Such
a map would help people determine which wetlands are most at risk,” said Aplal.
Accordingly, GIS is a broad term
that can refer to a number of different technologies, processes, and methods.
It is believed to be attached to many operations and has many applications related
to engineering, planning, management, transport/logistics, insurance,
telecommunications, and business.
It was learned that for that
reason, GIS and its location intelligence applications could serve as the
foundation for many location-enabled services that rely on analysis and
visualization. (GILMHAR A. LAO, Information Officer-OCD ARMM/MINDANAO EXPOSE’)
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