The country’s least studied ecosystem, the seagrass, will be the subject of this year’s satellite and ground mapping to pry open valuable information about the least appreciated but one of the highly impactful marine ecosystem. Ariel C. Blanco, director of the Space Information Infrastructure Bureau of the Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA), told the BusinessMirror that the Nationwide Seagrass Percent Cover Mapping would be started in March “and by the last quarter of the year, we can have the map of the seagrass cover.” “We have started to develop the program, and by March, we will launch the campaign to have interested organizations and groups to participate in gathering the data from the field,” he said.

Cayon, M. T. (2025, March 3). PhilSA, DENR to generate PH's first seagrass mapping. BusinessMirror, p. A4.