Nigeria: Tallen Urges Space Experts to Make Good Use of Nigeriasat-1
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Leadership (Abuja)
22 November 2007
Posted to the web 22 November 2007
Prince Charles Dickson
Plateau
Plateau State deputy governor, Mrs. Paullen Tallen, has urged space and remote sensing experts to take advantage of recent development in space science and technology, especially the availability of NigeriaSat-1 to review the existing land use and land cover of the country in order to aid and support current efforts in environmental management.
She made this known in her goodwill message to the National Roundtable Discussion of Geo-Information System-Based Forest and Desert Management in Nigeria, organised by the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), in collaboration with the National Center for Remote Sensing NCRS, Jos.
Mrs. Tallen stated that their deliberations could not have come at a better time than now when the twin issues of climate change and global warming were serious threats to the whole world.
She reminded the audience that it was a well known fact that shrinking forest cover which quickens transport of surface water was rapidly translating into flash floods, and even closer home, the floods in parts of Langtang, Wase, and Shendam Local Government Areas of the State was a case point.
In his welcome address, Director and CEO of the National Center for Remote Sensing, Dr. Saidu Mohammed, said that desertification and deforestation are among the greatest environmental challenges, which constitutes barrier to meeting basic needs in Nigeria.
He emphasised the problems as part of a growing consciousness of the environment as mans' life supporting system, noting that the environmental resources of air, land and water provide the ecological basis for the survival of man on the planet.
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