Abstract
The Philippines has embarked on a detailed nationwide natural resource inventory using LiDAR through the Phil-LiDAR 2 Program. This 3-year program has developed and has been implementing mapping methodologies and protocols to produce high-resolution maps of agricultural, forest, coastal marine, hydrological features, and renewable energy resources. The Program has adopted strategies on system and process development, capacity building and enhancement, and expanding the network of collaborations. These strategies include training programs (on point cloud and image processing, GIS, and field surveys), workshops, forums, and colloquiums (program-wide, cluster-based, and project-based), and collaboration with partner national government agencies and other organizations. In place is a cycle of training, implementation, and feedback in order to continually improve the system and processes. To date, the Program has achieved progress in the development of workflows and in rolling out products such as resource maps and GIS data layers, which are indispensable in planning and decision-making. Challenges remains in speeding up output production (including quality checks) and in ensuring sustainability considering the short duration of the program. Enhancements in the workflows and protocols have been incorporated to address data quality and data availability issues. More trainings have been conducted for project staff hired to address human resource gaps. Collaborative arrangements with more partners are being established. To attain sustainability, the Program is developing and instituting a system of training, data updating and sharing, information utilization, and feedback. This requires collaboration and cooperation of the government agencies, LGUs, universities, other organizations, and the communities.
Highlights
The mapping and inventory of natural resources in the Philippines are undertaken by various national government agencies (NGAs) and other organizations such as nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) or non-profit organizations (NPOs)
The 3-year Program is being implemented since July 2014 with the University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD), through its Training Center for Applied Geodesy and Photogrammetry, leading fourteen (14) other State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) and Higher Educational Institutes (HEIs) throughout the Philippines
The core methodological workflows are developed by UPD and these are cascaded to the SUCs and HEIs for implementation and enhancement as needed to address peculiarities in land cover in their assigned areas
Summary
The mapping and inventory of natural resources in the Philippines are undertaken by various national government agencies (NGAs) and other organizations such as nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) or non-profit organizations (NPOs). Most of the resource maps are based on moderate-resolution satellite images and the classification level may not be enough for detailed planning needs of local government units. Methodologies used and, resulting accuracies of maps vary greatly. Documentation of methodologies and details on classification accuracy and map quality assessments are mostly not available. The availability of these resource maps is limited. The utilization of LiDAR datasets for nationwide natural resource mapping is presented
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