May 7, 2015

Earth, environment and climate sciences

The program in Earth sciences has for objective to increase the knowledge and the understanding of the system Earth.

The objectives of the Earth sciences program are

  • to improve the understanding of the Planet Earth as a system, operationaly support the purposive management of the environment and sustainable development,
  • to study the global warming,
  • to manage the missions intended for Defence (security and defence missions, dual missions),
  • to study the feasibility of the geostationary or high-temporal revisit capability observation.

The Earth Sciences Fields are

  • Atmospheric composition & climate
  • Continental Biosphere
  • Coastal, littoral, marine cryosphere
  • Hydrology, water cycle, continental cryosphere
  • Internal geophysics, geodynamics and geodesy
  • Meteorological atmosphere
  • Oceanography
  • Tele-epidemiology & risks

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