NARSS
National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences

Integration of Satellite Land Surface Assessment with Socio-Economic Parameters for Global Desertification Monitoring in the Arid Mediterranean

December 31, 2002

AVICENNE is a research program on desertification monitoring, associating scientists from Egypt, Tunisia and IRD of France. The actual main objectives of this project are to:

  • Contribute in the development of a global understanding of desertification phenomena as a basis for strategies to combat it.
  • Design an approach integrating the biophysical ground observation with remote sensing to detect changes occurring at the land surface.
  • Link socio-economic information with remotely sensed land surface changes using a GIS, towards the definition of global desertification indicators.

Funding Agencies

  • European Union

Partner Agencies

  • CNT
  • Tunisia
  • NARSS-Egypt
  • ORSIOM, France

 

Division : Environmental Studies and Land use

About NARSS

NARSS has been established in 1991 as a General Authority for Remote Sensing belongs to the Ministry of State for Scientific Research.

NARSS was then organizationally restructured in 1994; following the Presidential Decree No. 261 for 1992, as a National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences belongs to the Ministry of Scientific Research.

Contact us

  • Phone : (202)26251299 - (202)26251200

  • Fax : (202)26225800 - (202)26225833

  • E-mail : info@narss.sci.eg

  • Address : 23 Joseph Tito Street, El-Nozha El-Gedida (P.O. Box : 1564 Alf Maskan).

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