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NEPAL
Nepal focuses on the use of remote sensing and GIS
for resource and environmental surveying and management
and disaster monitoring. The former National Remote Sensing
Centre was merged in 1989 with the Forest Survey and Statistics
Division of the Forest Research and Survey Centre and renamed
the Remote Sensing Section, which focuses its work on forest
resource inventory and monitoring land-use changes. Agencies
and universities are applying remote sensing and GIS for
various projects relating to forest mapping, geological
mapping, mining, agriculture, land-cover and land-use classification,
land resource assessment and planning, water resource assessment
and watershed management. An APT receiving station for meteorological
satellites at the Tribhuvan International Airport receives
visible and infra-red images from NOAA satellites daily
and from Meteor satellites occasionally, and hourly images
from Japan's GMS satellites. The Nepal Telecommunication
Corporation acts as the operating agency for the Intelsat
satellite communication system. |
