Sponsors
NARSS
National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences
NARSS has been established in 1991 as a National Authority for Remote Sensing belongs to the Ministry of State for Scientific Research. NARSS was then organizationally restructured in 1994 following the Presidential Decree No. 261 for 1992,
as a National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences belongs to the Ministry of Scientific Research.
NARSS is mainly aiming at promoting the use of the state of the art of space technology and Earth observation for the sustainable development of Egypt and introducing high technological capabilities into the local and regional market.
Earlier remote sensing initiative has started in Egypt in 1971 within the frame of the Egyptian Academy of the Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT) through an American-Egyptian joint project.
This has enabled for the establishment of the Remote Sensing Centre (in 1972) under ASRT.