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[NEW YORK] The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will have greater access to a suite of powerful space science tools to help countries meet theSustainable Development Goals与德国航空航天中心（DLR）签署合作协议后。
The new partnership will enable UNDP and its partners to leverage high-resolution satellite imagery and sophisticated computer modelling to address local issues such as flooding, and health and education needs.
More accurate floodwater mapping and modelling can inform urban planning practices, while more precise population and settlement maps could show where schools and hospitals need to be built, the agencies said.
“Deep learning methods mean a better understanding of global change, improved meteorological predictions, and a better understanding of human mobility.”
DLR执行委员会成员HansjörgDittus
Pascale Ehrenfreund,chairman of DLR’s executive board, who spoke at the signing of the agreement at the UN headquarters in New York on Friday (13 December), said: “The fast pace of technological change in recent years—in robotics, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and related areas such as大数据—all have a broad impact on the economy, society, and environment. And this is all over the world, not only in more developed countries.”
“Spacetechnology可以做更多的事情，不仅仅是提供信息。”HansjörgDittus, who also serves on the DLR executive board. “Deep learning methods mean a better understanding of global change, improved meteorological predictions, and a better understanding of human mobility, all of which directly help the UNDP.”
A DLR analysis identified more than 700 outcomes of DLR research activities that are relevant to achieving the SDGs, Dittus added. He gave examples of three of the agency’s products that could be useful to partner countries and agencies under the agreement.
全球数据集概述了人类的“城市足迹他说。”他说，揭示了可以为气候模型和风险评估提供有关地震和海啸影响的风险评估的模式。和global water监视数据可以帮助预测水资源水平的未来波动，而地球系统model evaluation toolhelps validate a range of climate models used to hone in on local changes in rainfall, flood zones, temperature and other environmental variables.
Education建立技术能力将是合作的关键特征，合作伙伴国家的研讨会培训政府，非营利性，科学和发展领域的从业人员如何识别和使用适当的技术。
DLR research institutes in Germany also plan to host professionals in relevant fields from around the world for training and skill-building residencies in the coming years.
Marc Jochemich, head of international relations for DLR’s Washington office, said: “We hope to match development organisations with technologies that can meet their needs.
“我们有很多新技术，可以开发更多的新技术以及可以导致新科学结果的新合作。但是我们需要将演员聚集在一起，以使这些新事物发生。”
Frieda Fein, a GIS specialist on the geospatial analytics team of UNDP, said that a pilot programme in Mozambique beginning in March 2020 will focus on infrastructure repair following flooding damage resulting from旋风idaiin March 2019. Before-and-after satellite imagery will be crucial for the planning and targeting of reconstruction efforts, Fein said.The agreement is one of a number of initiatives by the UNDP to harness space-based technologies to help countries plan for a more sustainable future and rebuild after a disaster.
The office has previously partnered with theUN-SPIDERprogramme of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, geared toward disaster response. In 2016, it used satellite imagery to monitor reconstruction efforts in the historic city ofTimbuktu, Malifollowing conflict in that country.
Bernard Frot, an information management specialist at the UNDP, who is coordinating the partnership with DLR, said: “Especially post-disaster, populations are very vulnerable. And impacts can be complex.
“Satellites, digital imagery and other innovations are one of the most powerful tools we have to help local governments and partners determine appropriate actions to take.”
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