Education Curricula of the Regional Centres for Space Science and Technology Education (Affiliated to the United Nations)

摘要

Since 1988, the United Nations, through the Programme on Space Applications,is supporting the establishment and operation of regional Centres for SpaceScience and Technology Education in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin Americaand the Caribbean, and Western Asia. Simultaneously, education curricula havebeen developed for remote sensing and geographic information system, satellitecommunications, satellite meteorology and global climate, and space andatmospheric science. The paper reviews briefly these developments andhighlights the most recent updated education curricula in the four disciplinesthat are made available in 2002, in the six official languages of the UnitedNations, for implementation at the regional Centres and beyond.