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ESA proposes Johannesburg follow-up, hands over CEOS chair

2 December 2002

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The handover of the CEOS chairmanship from ESA to NOAA

Prof José Achache (right), ESA Director of Earth Observation Programmes, hands over CEOS chairmanship for the next year to Gregory Withee, Assistant Administrator for Satellite and Information Services at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

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Representatives from Japan's National Space Development Agency (NASDA)and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sporets, Science and Technology (MEXT)at the 16th CEOS Plenary Meeting

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Lead agencies identified

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USGS gets together with Chinese science and tech ministry

Linda Moodie (l) from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration discusses a point at the CEOS plenary with D. Li, representative of China's Ministry of Science and Technology, which will chair the organisation starting late next year.

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ESA’s Tiger Project to focus on water resources

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From left to right: B. Ryan, from the US Geological Survey, W. Erdelen of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and T. Chiku with the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (OOSA), at the 16th CEOS Plenary Meeting

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Yoji Furuhama, Executive Director of NASDA.

Yoji Furuhama, Executive Director of Japan's National Space Development Agency (NASDA).

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UNESCO approved as CEOS associate member

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The 16th CEOS Plenary Meeting was attended by about a hundred high-level representatives of international space agencies and their major partners, such as the World Meteorological Organization, the United Nations Environment Programme and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme. At left is Dr Souléye Wade, Deputy Director for course management at the Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Dakar, Senegal, speaking with Yoji Furuhama, Executive Director of Japan's National Space Development Agency (NASDA).

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