Subject: [vnnews-l] IT: FRANCE HELPS VIETNAM BUILD SATELLITE IMAGE RECEIVING SYSTEM Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:58:13 -0700 (PDT) sent to vnnews-l by Stephen Denney sdenney@OCF.Berkeley.EDU

Thai Press Reports

July 28, 2005

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HEADLINE: FRANCE HELPS VIETNAM BUILD SATELLITE IMAGE RECEIVING SYSTEM

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Section: Regional News - A French-funded project will be carried out next month to build an environment and natural resources monitoring system that can receive and process satellite images The Defense and Communications Systems of Europe has signed a 20 million EUR trade deal with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to supply Vietnam with a station which receives images from France's SPOT and the European Space Agency's ENVISAT satellites.

Once the project is completed after three years of construction, Vietnam will have the first satellite image receiving system in Southeast Asia. Using the system Vietnam will be able to monitor sea, water, mineral resources and the risks of forest fires. - VOV