Felicito C. Payumo, SBMA chairman said that the automation of the administrative and operational processes of SBMA had led to the awarding of an ISO certification by TUV.
One of the applications deployed by SBMA is the Ortho-Geographic Information System (GIS) that enhances the planning, monitoring, management and decision-making capability.
Payumo said the GIS technology provides valuable support for an efficient presentation of landbased information, physical development of the freeport and the strengthening of land development and administration.
The system also enables SBMA to plan alternative utilization of the existing land-based resources of the Subic Bay freeport zone.
GIS has helped SBMA to operate as a single enterprise by making data sharing an easy task among other SBMA departments.
The system has the capability to store, retrieve, analyze, model and map large areas with huge volumes of spatial data.
It is used for land use planning, utilities management, ecosystems modeling, landscape assessment and planning, transportation and infrastructure planning, market analysis, visual impact analysis, facilities management, tax assessment, real estate analysis and other applications.
Through the system, prospective investors can inquire on the land-based resources of the freeport zone or where to locate their operations.
The benefits of GIS technology include the reduction in data inconsistencies, maintenance of data standards and integrity, development of standard corporate geographic database, coordination and cooperation among SBMA stakeholders in data generation and geographic data sharing and distribution.
About 80 percent of the information needed at the freeport had to do with location or geography of people, places, things and events.
Through the GIS technology, it illustrates the inter-relationship of various data that would give information and better decisions based on the relevant factors.
Another application is the Asset Information System (AsIS) designed to enhance monitoring, management of SBMA assets and facilities.
It provides an efficient method of storing, analyzing and retrieval of information of fixed assets of Subic Bay freeport zone.
The Subic Bay Freeport geographic information system is designed to display information of land-based resources. It is aimed at providing a comprehensive information database like the socio, economic and physical profile of the freeport.
The Ecology Information System (ECIS) is designed to establish a computerized comprehensive land-based information consisting of environmental and natural resources of the freeport.
