Cabinet has approved the space policy and implementation plan of the country to pave the way for the full operationalisation of the Ghana Space Agency next year.
The Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, who announced this, said the country was also actively pursuing improved ways to harness the power of earth observations to support planning and decision-making.
These earth observations, he mentioned, were weather forecasting and measuring land-use change such as deforestation, monitoring coastlines and monitoring and responding to disasters, including fires, floods and earthquakes.
Dr Bawumia, who made this known when he addressed the opening session of the plenary of the 18th annual meeting of the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) week in Accra yesterday, therefore, called on the GEO community to continuously invest in capacity development in low and middle-income countries.
That, he explained, was to enable these countries to acquire the necessary technologies, knowledge and skills to access and use earth observation data effectively.
Source:Kwabena Nyarko Abronoma
