Damascus-SANA
The General Authority for Remote Sensing and the Arab Center for Studies of Dry Areas and Dry Lands (ACSAD) signed an agreement to enhance cooperation in the field of exchanging experiences, information, data and space data and to establish joint work platforms aimed at protecting and managing natural resources and preparing spatial digital databases to serve sustainable development and optimal use of these resources.
The agreement also provides for cooperation in the field of developing the use of remote sensing and tributary technologies for scientific and applied purposes to support sustainable development, support innovation, train national technical cadres, increase their scientific and applied capacity, and implement joint projects in the fields of land, water, vegetation and climate change.
The agreement includes preparing analytical maps to monitor the interrelationship between rainy crops and dry seasons, joint work to determine the spectral footprint of wheat cultivation systems in Syria and the Arab countries, and the development of joint training programs directed to government agencies in the field of natural resource management, protection and preservation.
In a press statement following the signing of the agreement between the Director General of the Authority, Dr. Abdul Majeed Al-Kafri, that the agreement is a new start for cooperation with ACSAD to advance the scientific, research and agricultural sector.
In turn, ACSAD's Director General, Dr. Nasr El-Din El-Obeid, stressed the need for coordination between Arab institutions for the development of agricultural scientific research, expressing the organization's readiness for further cooperation with the Remote Sensing Authority to serve sustainable development operations in Syria and Arab countries.
It is noteworthy that the General Authority for Remote Sensing and ACSAD signed a similar agreement to enhance cooperation and exchange of experiences in 2018.
Ghassob Abboud
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