DOST Eyes Developing AI, Space Technology, Tech Firms:

Officials of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) are looking forward to sustaining the agency's momentum of the past year and begin in 2018 the groundwork for three key areas: Space technology, creation of technology-based start-up companies, and artificial intelligence (AI). The DOST is in a position to pursue these programs after great strides in the past year. Science Secretary Fortunato dela Peña said he "is happy with the support the agency has received" from the executive and legislative branches of the government throughout the past year and looks forward to laying the groundwork for other key areas of research and development (RnD). These include space technology, artificial intelligence and technology-based start-up companies. The DIWATA-1 has four built-in cameras namely: the High Precision Telescope (HPT), space-borne multi-spectoral imager, wide field camera and middle field camera, all designed to capture high resolution images primarily for disaster monitoring. But the improved version of DIWATA-2 will have the same cameras with an additional enhanced resolution and an amateur radio unit for alternative means of communication. This could be used for disaster monitoring, according to Leonard Paet, part of the 11-man PHL-Microsat team building the Diwata-2 in cooperation with the Tohoku University and Hokkaido University in Japan.

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