2010 CAIRO WORKSHOP

Space Technology & Geo-information for Sustainable Development, Sponsored by the U.S.-Egypt Fund for Science & Technology Cooperation

• Background  
• Program
• Abstracts and Biographies
• Presentations
• Papers
• Workshop Coordinators
• Workshop Photographs

 

	SPACE TECHNOLOGY AND GEOINFORMATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
	SPONSORED BY U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, and EGYPT’s NATIONAL AUTHORITY FOR REMOTE SENSING AND SPACE SCIENCES, in cooperation with U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, and the ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS
	June 14-17, 2010 Iberotel Cairo, Egypt

                      

Landsat image of Nile Delta	Egyptsat-1 image

Background

The workshop “Space Technology and Geoinformation for Sustainable Development” is organized and funded by a public-private partnership that includes the U.S. Department of State, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), Trimble Navigation, Ltd., and the Egyptian National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS).

The funding provided by the Department of State is from the U.S.-Egypt Joint Science and Technology Fund. The Joint Fund was established under the U.S-Egypt Science and Technology Cooperative Agreement first signed in 1995, and renewed in 2001 and 2005, by the United States and the Arab Republic of Egypt. Approximately USD $4million per year is equally distributed between Egyptian and American Scientists working together on joint Fund activities.

The main goals of the Fund are to: 

• Strengthen the scientific and technological capacity of both countries
• Broaden and expand relations between the scientific and technical communities
• Promote scientific and technological cooperation in areas of mutual benefit for peaceful purposes.

The Joint Fund support for research and development cooperation takes the form of:

• Dual-Cooperator Research Grants
• Workshop Grants
• Junior Scientist Development Visit Grants

Back to top 

 Workshop Program

View Program 

Please submit copies of abstracts, papers and presentations electronically to the Workshop Coordinators: Prof. Mohamed B. Argoun, National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, NARSS, mbargoun@yahoo.com, Dr. Fernando Echavarria, Office of Space and Advanced Technology, U.S. Department of State, echavarriafr@state.gov, and Dr. Marsha Goldberg, AAG, mgoldberg@aag.org 

The workshop coordinators (left to right): Mohamed B. Argoun, Fernando Echavarria, Marsha Goldberg

Back to top

Workshop Photographs

View photos

Back to top

The Workshop coordinators would also like to thank ESRI and Trimble for their support of this project.