Remote Sensing
UNESCO uses the generic technological term of remote sensing (non-invasive technologies to capture information) in a wider sense:
We understand, under remote sensing for natural and cultural heritage, all techniques that capture, at different distances, comprising from space to place, information of heritage sites.
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The objective is to increase human understanding of the historic and natural environment by making these non-invasive techniques, a central support tool for heritage conservation, not as a separate subject for specialists.
The main goal is to assist Member States to improve knowledge, interpretation, and presentation of our natural and cultural heritage: World Heritage sites and Biosphere Reserves.
As a consequence, fulfilling such a goal improves the national conservation activities at UNESCO Member States.
Remote sensing as a technology is a useful tool but Member States also require the provision of technical assistance as well as the reinforcement of their own national capacity.
We describe herein how UNESCO, in close partnership with space agencies, space research institutions and universities is assisting developing countries by bringing the benefits of space technologies at the service of the natural and cultural heritage of our World.
‘Open Initiative’: Space Technologies for Conservation and Monitoring of UNESCO sites
In the area of remote sensing, or satellite images, UNESCO works mainly as a 'bridge' between the needs and requirements of developing Member States and the space experts that can provide the adequate solution to these problems.
IN THE MEDIA
'A World of Sciences’
UNESCO is currently using space technologies to help save an archaeological treasure, the frozen tombs of Siberia.
Read the presentation of the project
EURONEWS
EURONEWS made a documentary, featuring how UNESCO is working with ESA on the conservation of the Earth's biodiversity.
