The University of the Philippines – National Institute of Physics (UP-NIP) in Diliman, Quezon City turned over a unit of Teardrop Platform to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Region 6. Teardrop Platform is a tool developed under the Automated Rapid Reef Assessment System (ARRAS) project – a collaboration of efforts, expertise and funding among national government agencies and the academe. It was first tested in the waters of the Sagay City Marine Reserve in Negros Occidental.

Agency gets advanced reef assessment tool. (2018, June 22). Panay News, pp. 11, 14.