UN Habitat and ESA sign MoU

Simonetta Cheli, ESA's Director of Earth Observation Programmes and Dyfed Aubrey, UN Habitat Regional Director for Europe, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ESA today, Wednesday 25 June.

The MoU is a formal signature for a long-standing and productive partnership, which has given rise to several successful initiatives. ESA has collaborated with UN Habitat on projects developing products related to human settlements including for example the World Settlement Foodprint and IDEAtlas for slum detection.