📋 Tender Overview
On August 17 and 18, at the Hyatt Campus of the Naval Polytechnic Academy (APOLINAV) in Las Salinas, Viña del Mar, the V Remote Sensing and GIS Forum was held, which was organized by the Working Group on the subject belonging to the National Oceanographic Committee (CONA).
The forum began with the welcome words of the Academic Deputy Director of APOLINAV, Captain Francisco Mac-Kay, who referred to the importance of generating meetings where advances in research are shared that allow broadening the horizon of knowledge in pursuit of national interests. Subsequently, the Executive Secretary of CONA, Juan Fierro, highlighted the transversal and multidisciplinary importance of aspects such as basic territorial information, urbanization and construction, land use, climatic aspects, disaster risks, among others, for which the technology of Geographic information systems provide us with irreplaceable tools.
Both days had diverse and interesting exhibitions, the thematic axes being the Sciences of the Sea and the Earth and the risk of disasters. On behalf of SHOA, a presentation was made by Virginia Sepúlveda and Pedro Poblete on the "Importance of photogrammetry as a topographic base in the elaboration of cartographic products: nautical charts and CITSU in SHOA", where through the restitution they are delivered the fundamental tools to provide safety to navigation that guide professionals and authorities in decision-making in the event of natural disasters.
Likewise, the Professor of the SHOA Instruction Center, Fernando Illanes, presented on the subject "Coastal border maps, their updating and contribution to the Integrated Management of Coastal Zones (IMZC)", a work that proposes a methodology for updating the maps of the coastline, using new technologies, such as images obtained with drones, satellite images, geographic information systems (GIS), the incorporation of information from flood charts (CITSU), such as the integration of elements that allow the incorporation of the multipurpose cadastre to the existing cartography.
