Looking at the World from Africa

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Looking at the World from Africa

• Another way of looking at the world from Africa
• Africa can contribute to the world body of
  knowledge
  
• and
• It is required for sustained development
• but
• We have to work on African problems in Africa
• within
• the available resources and ability
• African Resource Management Constellation

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African Resource Management ConstellationARM -
An African Space Initiative
Sias Mostert Stellenbosch Satellite Engineering
Group Stellenbosch South Africa mostert_at_sun.ac.
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CODI IV 25 April to 29 April 2005
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Outline

• African Resource Management Constellation
• National participation
• Baseline mission overview
• Outstanding questions

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African Resource Management Constellation

• It is about African priorities
• Human capital development
• Access to relevant and real-time information
• Contributing to world body of knowledge
• Partnerships

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LEO Satellite Communication and Imaging Footprints
Imaging footprint
Communication Footprint
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Remote Sensing has wide implications

• ICT community
• distribution and management of information
• Libraries
• place for communication and access to remote
  sensing information
  
• Geo-spatial community
• up to date, actual data, timely and even
  real- time if under own control and in
  constellation
  
• Statistics applications
• Statistical sampling of population growth,
  agricultural production and other indicators
  

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African Satellite Opportunity Regional
Micro-Satellite Constellation

• Combine Resources
• African Priority
• International Resources
• Continent Wide Impact
• Nepad development
• Poverty eradication
• African Indigenous Intellectual
  CapitalDevelopment
  
• Human Resources
• South Africa contribution
• ZASat Programme

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African Resource Management System
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How can a country take part?

• Establish single point responsibility for
  geo-spatial satellite programme
  
• Recruit team and establish Infrastructure
  (satellite and GEO-Spatial Infrastructure) with
  Technology Transfer and Capacity Building
  
• Operational utilisation of satellite and
  GEO-Spatial Infrastructure

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National Partner Owns

• Satellite in Space
• Ground station (s)
• Geo-Spatial Information Infrastructure
• Agricultural Food security and other applications

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Data Policy

• National Interest Imaging
• 2. Data available for other parties in
  constellation (utilization and back-up)
  
• 3. Commercial sale of balance of data
• 4. Disaster management availability

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International Collaboration

• Combine resources
• Invest in building African technology base in
  participating countries
  
• Other parties can contribute by deploying
  compatible sensor and application systems
  
• Response to NEPAD
• Contribution to GEO System of Systems

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Why and How of National Program Activity
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Why a National Satellite Programme?

• Capacity Building
• Individual
• Education and training, Job creation
• Organisational
• Spin-off companies
• National level
• Contribute to a knowledge economy
• Socio-Economic Impact
• Use operational remote sensing information
• Valorizing existing national facilities and
  resources
  
• Create environment for higher levels of
  investment
  
• Contribute to international markets

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A National Programme

• Objectives
• Capacity building
• Economic benefits
• International collaboration
• Institutions
• Establish or strengthen
• Plan
• Five year plan within 20 year vision
• Elements
• Training, operational, research satellite
• GEO-Spatial infrastructure

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Satellite Programme Elements

• Preparation
• institutional capacity building- organisational
  capacity building- program definition

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Medium resolution satellite- satellite
engineering capacity buildingand GEO-Spatial
capacity building- multi-spectral or pan-
chromatic imaging- operation
MMSat
High resolution satellite- Large scale satellite
application- Payload development- Operation
ARM 1
ARM 2
In Resource Management Constellation
In Resource Management Constellation
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Contributing to World Body of Knowledge Unique
African solution
Food Security MSMI Baseline
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Satellite System Overview
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User Application Overview
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Mission Requirements

• Track crop production for predicting final yield
• about once every 10 days
• Multi-spectral data
• Provide statistical estimates of cultivated area
  (not a wall-to wall census)
  
• especially small field sizes typical of
  developing countries
  
• estimate population density
• High resolution panchromatic data
• Identify crop variety planted
• using unique spectral signatures
• Hyper-spectral data

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MSMI Imager - Baseline for ARM Constellation
1 pan chromatic channel 2.5m
6 Multi Spectral channels 5m
200 channels Hyper-spectral 15m
Blue Green Red NIR SWIR
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MSMI program

• MSMI payload 3 year project
• Fully funded to protoflight model
• Scheduled completion June 2006

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African Resource Management Constellation

• Combine Resources
• Continent Wide Impact
• Nepad development
• Poverty eradication
• African Indigenous Intellectual
  CapitalDevelopment
  
• Human Resources

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Conclusion Next Steps

• Critical mass of micro-satellite engineering
  established and growing South Africa, Nigeria,
  Algeria, Egypt, Morocco
  
• An opportunity for African countries to work
  together to
  
• Establish a continent wide real-time Geo-Spatial
  infrastructure with an African priority
  
• Brain attraction vs brain-drain
• Industry development
• Contribute to the world body of knowledge
• Next Step USER REQUIREMENTS WORKSHOP, 28 May
  2005, ALGIERS

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Recommendations

• Governments in Africa should participate in the
  African Resource Management (ARM) Constellation
  System as part of creating the infrastructure for
  access to real-time GEO-Spatial information,
  human capacity development and addressing
  development applications.
• The ARM Constellation System information output
  should be integrated into the SDI and NICI
  systems to ensure maximum benefit for the country.