Lead Agency for Remote Sensing Technology for Agricultural Productivity
The Center aims to establish the following:
- Functional environmental monitoring laboratory that cater the needs of the province and the region for geospatial information;
- Well-trained professionals on GIS, RS and GPS tools including crop-weather models through a joint three-weeks training at MMSU;
- In placed WebGIS facilities that disseminate technologies generated to interested clients;
- Archival of satellite data for various applications;
- Functional yield forecasting model for rice and other rice-based crops;
- Drought and flood index maps;
- Improved policies and institution for sustainable rainfed ecosystem; and
- IEC materials