We have the technology, but are we prepared for the next disaster?
Source: The Manila times
Published on: 2026-10-11 16:20
AGATON, Bulusan, Crising, Emong, Falcon, Jolina, Kanlaon, Odette, Mayon, Paeng and Taal. Between 2021 and early this year, these names made the front page, but not in a welcome way. They came as typhoons, volcanic eruptions and floods, leaving behind deaths, damaged homes, disrupted power and communications and communities forced to evacuate. Meteorologists have been watching storms from space for years. The old Philippine Weather Bureau, before it became the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa), installed a system capable of receiving images from weather satellites. More than five decades later, the country has high-frequency imagery from geostationary satellites, weather radar, seismic and volcanic monitoring networks, flood sensors, hazard maps, artificial intelligence and satellite-based disaster mapping. Much of this scientific and...
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