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Sahara’s Edge Studied From Ground, Air And Space To Improve Water Management

by Georgia | December 27, 2005

Sass, Tunisia - An international team worked on the verge of the Sahara to gather data on the ground and in the air, to be compared with imagery of the same region acquired by ESA satellites.

The results will be used in support of an ambitious project to apply satellite remote sensing to improve monitoring and management of vast water aquifers concealed beneath the desert.

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