Phil-Lidar 1 Program - DREAM 3.73

DREAM, short for Disaster Risk Exposure and Assessment for Mitigation, is under the Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards or Project NOAH initiated by the Department of Science and Technology under the instruction of President Benigno Aquino III. DREAM specifically aims to develop accurate and detailed flood hazard models to identify areas most at risk from floods and, using flood simulations, warn communities of impending disasters.

Two aircrafts carrying state-of-the-art LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) instruments took off for their maiden flights on November 22nd 2012 from Clark Airbase to begin “scanning” the Pampanga river basin, thus jumpstarting the country’s first three dimensional (3D) mapping program billed as the DREAM Program - the Department of Science and Technology’s (DOST) grand solution to the country’s disaster preparedness problem.

DREAM is one of eight components of DOST’s groundbreaking Project NOAH (Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards or Project), the country’s flagship program in disaster mitigation.