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Organization
Duration of the research: 2001-2006
Projects: 36
Objectives
- Maintaining and expanding the Belgian scientific expertise;
- Development of operational products and services;
- User support;
- Valorisation and promotion of Belgian know-how.
Description
The programme fitted within the framework of the overall Belgian research strategy for remote sensing which aims at:
- Generalising use of satellite data as a source of information;
- Contributing simultaneously to infrastructure, to data support and data use;
- Introducing of remote sensing in operational services;
- Grouping researchers into poles of expertise of international standing.
- The poles of expertise to be developed within the programme are:
- Local vegetation and associated parameters/agriculture;
- Cartography and land management;
- Study of coastal regions.