InfoSAWIT, CIBINONG – A collaboration of remote sensing to estimate palm oil productivity, to know vulnerable areas, fire in the forests, and oceanography in District of Lamandau, Central Kalimantan was running with Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional (BRIN) and Politeknik Lamandau District of Lamandau, Central Kalimantan.
The cooperation was signed by Head of Pusat Riset Penginderaan Jauh (PRPJ), Organisasi Riset Penerbangan dan Antariksa (ORPA) BRIN, Rahmat Arief and Director of Politeknik Lamandau, A. Adhityawan Nugroho at the hall of Teratai KST Soekarno Cibinong, Friday (26/5/2023).
Rahmat Arief in his speech told that BRIN has functions to multiply partners to get collaboration namely in researches. The goal is to establish research ecosystem to become economic base. Economy in research – based would be last for some time namely in using high technology.
“That is why BRIN does its best to make research ecosystem which is supported by policy, human resources, infrastructures, and business process. The four are significant,” he said, as InfoSAWIT quoted from the official page of BRIN, Saturday (27/5/2023).
He also mentioned the government would deliver good condition about research policy. In human resources, they could be from ministries, regional government officers, academy, and the people themselves. “That is why the agreement of this cooperation is one of our goals,” Arief said.
Every technology does closely relate to infrastructure. BRIN has open platform infrastructure concept. Everyone can access infrastructures in BRIN, such as, high performance computing (HPC), laboratory, central data, and others.
Meanwhile Director of Politeknik Lamandau, Adhityawan thought there are many palm oil producers in District of Lamandau and so are the exports though there are new comers, such as, from Africa.
“Particularly in Lamandau, according to Regional Development Plan Agency, 20% food insecure regional management in District of Lamandau was helped by plantation sector. When in pandemic, the cities that depended on service or real sectors, got the impacts. But District of Lamandau which nota bene, has side job as smallholders, did not get much impact,” Adhityawan said.
For information, the scopes of the agreement covered palm oil plantation productivity with normalized differential vegetation index and other vegetation index that would be got from satellite image result from Landsat 8, Pleiades on plantation areas and rainfall data, rainy days, fertilizers, ages of plantations from Sub district of Bulik, District of Lamandau; fire - vulnerable regions; study about hydro – oceanography, and data remote sensing use to manually fishery.
The researches is hope to enable palm oil productivity prediction in Sub district of Bulik, District of Lamandau accurately by using remote sensing. The result could be used by palm oil companies to cultivate the plantation and production as the target and would develop the district, and Central Kalimantan Province, know the risks of fire and the environmental impacts to the sea. (T2)
