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The Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center organized a presentation to highlight the UAE's efforts and achievements in the space sector.
The presentation was presented by Meira Al Shamsi, head of the Remote Sensing Applications Unit at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center.
Where she pointed out that national efforts in the space sector are not the result of the moment, but go back to the seventies of the last century when the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, may God bless him, as well as his family, met the NASA team responsible for the Apollo trip to the moon.
The footsteps
Al Shamsi pointed out that the country was still looking for the founding father, who is today one of the most ambitious countries in the world in space exploration and a key player in this vital sector of the Gulf region and the Arab world. In 2017, as part of an ambitious program to reach March by 2021.
"Our vision, which was already aimed at developing the national space sector, is beginning to bear fruit 12 years ago," said Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, vice president and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Dubai, affirming that the country continued to consolidate its position in this vital sector. .
Types
Al Shamsi informed the public about the different types of remote sensing applications and their importance in various aspects of environmental life, natural disasters, agriculture, and so on. These applications provide UAE entities with geographical geographic information that will improve the efficiency of their operations, as well as innovative benefits such as geographic variable monitoring, coastal changes, and more.
She emphasized that investments in the space sector contributed to the establishment of a knowledge-based economy and honed the talents of the new generation of engineers, customers, experts and researchers, while the applications remote sensing improved the flow of accurate data, bringing great benefits to different sectors of the world today.
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