The ACSAD Organization and the General Organization of Remote Sensing / A Scientific and Technical Cooperation Agreement.
The Arab Centre for the Studies of Arid Zones and Drylands ACSAD and the General Organization of Remote Sensing in the Syrian Arab Republic have signed an agreement to enhance the cooperation between both sides, exchanging experiences contributing to developing human and natural resources where needed.
The ACSAD’s Director-General, Dr Nasr Edin Obaid and the Director-General of the General Organization of Remote Sensing, Dr Abdulmajeed Al-Kafry, have signed the Agreement at the ACSAD’s headquarters in the presence of both sides delegations today.
The Agreement provides for the cooperation between the two sides in developing Remote Sensing technologies and other related technologies for applied and scientific purposes to support sustainable development and accord with both sides’ tasks. Moreover, sharing information, Data, and aerospace developments, establishing collaborative work platforms to protect the natural resources and their administrations and preparing spatial-digital databases to serve the sustainable development and the optimal usage of those resources.
It also provides for supporting the joint innovation and evolutions in various areas related to what serves to achieve sustainable development goals, trains national technical cadres and increase their applied scientific capabilities, implements joint projects in the fields of lands, water, plant cover, and climate changes.
The Agreement also is to prepare the analytic maps to monitor the mutual relation between rainfed crops and drought seasons; the joint work to determine the spectral signature for wheat cultivation systems in Syria and Arab Countries, benefitting appliances and laboratories available for the two sides, exchanging information and data as well.
It also includes exchanging experiments, specialists, providing consultations, conveying expertise and technology, participating in forums, workshops, and training courses conducted by both sides; to publishing the scientific research in the Arab Journal of Arid Environments, as well as the scientific articles in the Agriculture and Water Magazine issued by ACSAD, whom the Arab Countries benefit from.
It has also agreed to exchange training the cadres in natural resources investment and management and benefit from Remote Sensing technologies and related ones in this field. Develop common training programs directed to official and governmental bodies in the natural resources management, protect and save them; conducting joint scientific workshops and conferences.
In a speech proceeding the Agreement signature, Dr Nasr Edin Obaid emphasized that this Agreement embodied the constructive relations of cooperation between the ACSAD Organization and the General Organization of Remote Sensing in different areas of mutual interest and as a belief in the importance of such cooperation to enhance it constantly; in addition to the necessity of coordination and cooperation among the Arab scientific research institutions aimed to develop the agricultural scientific research.
Dr Obaid expressed the ACSAD organization’s readiness for more cooperation with professors and researchers in the General Organization of Remote Sensing to serve ACSAD’s goals in sustainable development in Syria and the Arab Countries, emphasizing that the Arab Centre ACSAD adopts these vision and methodology with institutions and research Centres significantly in the current phase and future.
