LANGKAWI, May 26 — The Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation , through the Malaysian Space Agency , today inked a memorandum of understanding with the Sabah Forestry Department to collaborate on the use of space technology and remote sensing for the management of forest resources, especially in the Sabah Forest Reserve.
Through this collaboration, several application system packages have also been developed specifically to assist the Sabah Forestry Department in the management of forest resources, namely the iForSABAH application for forest cover management and monitoring and the e-PESISIR system which focuses on monitoring the country’s coastal areas.
“The full operation of the application systems that have been developed has also reduced operational costs in the field by up to 40 per cent and saved work execution time,” said the statement.