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Ensuring the Sustainability of Two Geomatics Laboratories in Central Philippines

The implementation of the European Union-supported GEOTEACH Project shifts into high gear as selected technical staff of Xavier University College of Agriculture (XUCA), University of St. La Salle (USLS-Bacolod) and the Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC) recently participated in a training workshop on Geomatics Laboratory Setup held at the geomatics laboratory of XUCA. With the conduct of the training, the group was able to finalize the computer network setup of XUCA geomatics lab...

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PUVeP hosts 5th and Final Geoteach Censophil Project Conference

PUVeP hosted the 5th and final conference of the Geoteach Censophil Project at Searsolin from January 22-26, 2007. The conference program comprised of the following four parts

January 22-23, 2007: Part I - Technical and Administrative Sessions

January 24, 2007: Part II - Public Academic Conference “Geomatics Technology and its Potential Contributions to Development

January 25, 2007: Part III - Brainstorming Session “Open Source Geoinformatics as a Tool fo...

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Geomatics Academic Conference held in SEARSOLIN

Xavier University College of Agriculture through PUVeP in cooperation with the Environmental Science for Social Change Inc. (ESSC) organized the first GIS conference in Cagayan de Oro entitled 'Geomatics Technology and its Potential Contributions to Development' in SEARSOLIN last January 24, 2007. The event was part of the 5th & final conference of the Geoteach Censophil project.

The project partners from Belgium, Germany as well as Bacolod participated this ...

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Geoteach Censophil 3rd Project Conference Held in Bacolod

The University of St. La Salle -- Bacolod City will host on Jan. 23 -27, 2006, the Third International Conference of GEOTEACH CENSOPHIL, a two year multilateral project funded by the European Union through EUROPEAID -- Asia Information Technology and Communication ( ASIA --IT&C). The project involves five partners and focuses on Geomatics, a scientific mapping technology using mathematical tools

The European partner universities are --- Facultes Universitaires Notre Dame de la Paix ...

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Launching of Geomatics Laboratory

The College of Agriculture launched its new Geomatics laboratory last August 18 in room 204 of the Agriculture Building. The state-of-the-art laboratory comprises of eight client workstations and one server computer connected by a wireless network, eight GPS units, two plotters, one high resolution scanner, one image digitizer and a LCD projector. The laboratory will be used for training and research of faculty, staff and students of the College and other interested clients. Initially, the ha...

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Second Geoteach Censophil Project Conference in Karlsruhe

The Geoteach Censophil Project, of which the College of Agriculture is the project coordinator, held its 2nd project conference at the University of Applied Science in Karlsruhe City, Germany from July 23 - 29, 2005.

The College was represented by PUVeP Director Dr. Robert J. Holmer as well as Eng. Mark Alexis O. Sabines of the Agricultural Engineering Department, and Yvette B. Guanzon of PUVeP.

Mr. Sabines and Mrs. Guanzon were awarded with a certificate for successfully...

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GIS Workshop Series

The first workshop entitled GIS: An Introduction was conducted from October 18-20, 2005 at the new Geomatics Laboratory, Room 204 of the College of Agriculture Bldg for 8 faculty members of the College of Agriculture and 2 faculty members of the Computer Center. The resource persons were Eng. Mark Alexis Sabines (Agricultural Engineering Dept.) and Yvette B. Guanzon (PUVeP). The objectives of the workshop were a) to give a brief background of the Geoteach Censophil project, b) to present the ...

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Asia IT&C Monitoring Team Visits Periurban Vegetable Project

Mr. Jun David of Asia Monitoring Team of European Commission (EC) visits Cagayan de Oro on June 28, 2005, to have a monitoring mission for the Asia IT & C Project, GEOTEACH CENSOPHIL, under the Xavier University College of Agriculture, spearheaded by Dr. Robert J. Holmer, Director, Periurban Vegetable Project.

Mr. David visited PUVeP office for the analysis of the relevant project documents, followed by a site visit to Landfill area, Lapasan Allotment Garden and Geomatics Laboratory...

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