United Nations Coordination of Outer Space Activities
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Mandate
The mandate of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is to foster international cooperation in the fields of education, science, culture and communication and to assist in narrowing the gap in those areas between the developed and developing countries. UNESCO promotes the free flow of ideas by word and image and, as a strategy, focuses on the application of communication and information technologies for development, democracy and peace.
2007 publication: Manual on remote sensing applications to groundwater:
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001563/156300e.pdf
Contact person: Dr. Annuka Lipponen (
a.lipponen@unesco.org)
Contact information
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
1 rue Miollis
75732 Paris Cdex 15
France
Telephone: +(33)(1) 45 68 41 17 or 45 68 41 71
Facsimile: +(33)(1) 45 68 58 22
Web:
http://www.unesco.org/
E-mail:
webmaster@unesco.org
Contact information:
Office for Outer Space Affairs
Vienna International Centre
P.O. Box 500, A - 1400 Vienna
Austria
Phone: (43-1) 26060-4950
Fax: (43-1) 26060 5830
E-mail:
OOSA@unvienna.org