OCD-ARMM trains soldiers on GIS

• Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?nid=2&rid=921996
• Sunday, September 11, 2016

(PNA), LDV/NYP/EOF

COTABATO CITY, Sept. 11 (PNA) -- At least 15 personnel of the 6th Infantry Division, 6th Civil Military Operations “Kasangga” Battalion, have graduated from the three-day workshop and training course on Geographic Information System (GIS) after earning skills in map reading and analyze important data for combat and disaster response operations.

Engr. Amier Ashan Aplal, Office of Civil Defense in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (OCD-ARMM), facilitated the training from Sept. 8 to 10 at the 6th CMO-battalion headquarters here.

As part of the training course, Aplal said the participating Army personnel have also engaged in a Metro Cotabato wide “field exercise” where they have applied all the learning acquired during the indoor lectures and workshops.

The GIS is a computer system for capturing, storing, checking and displaying data related to positions on earth's surface.

“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,” Aplal said.

“Such a map would help people determine which wetlands are most at risk,” he said.

The graduates are expected to share what they have learned during the training to their comrades in different battalions and operational units under the 6th ID area of operation.