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Résumé :
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Thales Alenia Space, IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement), BRL ingénierie (BRLi) and ITA (Consorzio Italiano per il Telerilevamento dell’Ambiente e dell’Agricoltura) are partners within the AMESD (African Monitoring of the Environment for Sustainable Development) project. This project aims at developing adequate, space-based applications to address sustainable development issues across Africa. Projects such as AMESD rely on the synergies between our four companies’ objectives: Thales Alenia Space, a world reference for Systems, Satellites, Instruments, equipment, space infrastructure and ground segments, designed for Telecommunications, Science, Earth Observation, Navigation, Defence and Security applications. The company’s main references in Environment monitoring are: COSMO-SkyMed, Envisat, Jason, SMOS, GMES Sentinels 1 and 3, and the Meteosat satellites for ESA/Eumetsat. IRD, French public institution, unique in the landscape of European research for development. Its task is to conduct research in the South, for the South, with the South. Its researchers are working on issues of major global importance today as global warming, emerging diseases, biodiversity, access to water, migration, poverty, world hunger… BRLi, an engineering company delivering consultant services and support to decision makers for sound water resources management, climate change adaptation, protection of the biodiversity and integrated coastal areas management ITA: 33 years of experience in agricultural and environmental satellite remote sensing services. Together, we agreed to take this opportunity to ask some of the best African experts to share their concerns and their hopes. We teamed up with Suds-Concepts, a French communication company and selected the same book-magazine formula as for Climate Change and Satellites. This book-magazine is about Africa by Africans for Africans, for worldwide deciders, and for all the people who care about sustainable development and the contribution space technology may bring.
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