Title :
Education and capacity building in earth observation for waterrelated applications in emerging economies
Author :
Vekerdy, Zoltán ; Su, Zhongbo ; Mannaerts, Chris M M ; Van Lieshout, Arno M. ; Maathuis, Ben H P
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Water Resources, Univ. of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
Abstract :
Earth observation x in the second half of the twentieth century. ITC, established in the fifties of the 20th century as a postgraduate institute, has been evolving together with the EO discipline. Its activity focuses on education and capacity building of professionals and institutions of emerging economies, i.e. facilitating the use of advanced technologies in less developed environments.
Keywords :
educational institutions; further education; geophysics; hydrology; remote sensing; Earth observation; capacity building; education; emerging economies; postgraduate institute; water-related applications; Buildings; Earth; Educational institutions; Meteorology; Training; Water resources; One; five; four; three; two;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1160-1
Electronic_ISBN :
2153-6996
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6351853