Remote sensing for resources development and environmental management: Remote sensing for resources development and environmental management

damen, m. c. j.

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Title:: Remote sensing for resources development and environmental management

Sub title:: proceedings of the 7th international Symposium, Enschede, 25 - 29 August 1986

Year of publication:: 1986

Place of publication:: Rotterdam; Boston

Publisher of the original:: A. A. Balkema

Identifier (digital):: 856342815

Language:: English

Additional Notes:: Volume 1-3 erschienen von 1986-1988

Editor:: Damen, M. C. J.

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Persistent identifier:: 856662364

Title:: Remote sensing for resources development and environmental management

Sub title:: proceedings of the 7th international Symposium, Enschede, 25 - 29 August 1986

Scope:: VI, Seiten 959-1074

Year of publication:: 2016

Place of publication:: Rotterdam; Boston

Publisher of the original:: A. A. Balkema

Identifier (digital):: 856662364

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Language:: English

Usage licence:: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Editor:: Damen, M. C. J.

Publisher of the digital copy:: Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover

Place of publication of the digital copy:: Hannover

Year of publication of the original:: 2016

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Collection:: Earth sciences

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Title:: [Welcome addresses.] E. van Spiegel Director General for Science Policy of the Ministry of Education and Science

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Foundation into the international mobility of re searchers from various European countries points to the same phenomenon. It appears that Dutch research ers score low in terms of scientific works done abroad and collaboration with their foreign counter parts. So you can see that The Netherlands had a good reason to roll up its sleeves a few years ago and set about changing the situation. In the words of the Prime-Minister: ’A prerequisite for the further internationalisa tion of The Netherlands’ research effort is that the country’s research facilities should be made acces sible to international research forums and that re searchers from The Netherlands should make greater use of facilities abroad. We must also intensify our efforts in the field of bilateral cooperation with other countries in the form of research projects and programmes, and we must have a clearly-defined pol icy for participation in EG programmes such as Eureka’. European countries as a whole also have an impor tant task. It is to ensure that Europe, which forms the largest economic block in the world, greater even than North America, has research teams of the same stature as those elsewhere in the world, both individually and collectively. That can only be achieved if the researchers themselves actively en courage collaboration between the various research establishments and promote the development of the joint programmes. It will also require the help of national governments in creating the right condi tions, for example, ensuring that the research es tablishments obtain the equipment they need; provid ing sufficient funds to maintain international con tacts; and coordinating national and European re search programmes. I should like to mention CERN, the European Organ isation for Nuclear Research and ESA, the European Space Agency, as two examples of European success stories in the field of scientific cooperation. Although both of these projects were set up for reasons of economy of scale, they nevertheless dis play the beneficial effects on quality to which I referred when I discussed the strategic need for cooperation. These projects both deserve credit on three major counts. Firstly, they represent scientific institutions of a world calibre. Secondly, they have set Europe new standards of research in high-energy physics and astronomical and astrophysical research. Thirdly, projects such as CERN and the ESA have produced work of such quality that they are attracting researchers from outside Europe. Earth observation is no respecter of borders, so it is hardly surprising that there is already con siderable international cooperation in the field of remote sensing. But this cooperation is simply not in the same league as the forms of cooperation to which I have just referred. The European Space Agency may as well be able to fill this gap in Europe if the same kind of approach is chosen as for the astronomical programme - the traditional area of cooperation within the ESA. The same applies to the JRS, which is based in Ispra in Italy, but it seems to me that that will require some fundamental changes of policy: in particular, the JRC will have to be involved more fully in na tional research programmes. Finally, Earsel could also acquire such a role, although I believe that this will require a con siderable improvement in the framework of coopera tion. Our ultimate goal should be worldwide cooperation, such as already exists in meteorology. Accordingly, The Netherlands ’ Remote Sensing Pro gramme actively seeks to further international coop eration. How could it be otherwise, indeed, when one considers how firmly the ITC’s international perspec tive is anchored in its charter. I believe that the time has come for earth observa tion to move into the sphere of genuine strategic cooperation. The new generation of earth observation satellites will soon be providing us with vast quan tities of information. It is essential that the coun tries of the world pool their resources and collabor ate in the collection, transfer, processing and storage of this information. I am confident that you will rise to this chal lenge. Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, I wish you a fruitful symposium, one in which you will be able to sow the seeds of new ideas and new forms of cooperation. It is my pleasure to declare this symposium open. Thank you.

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