Volker Liebig, ESA’s Director of Earth Observation Programmes (left) and David Williams, CSIRO’s Executive Director of National Facilities and Collections (right) signed an agreement on the collaboration between Australian and European researchers in the evaluation of satellite data for use in Australia, while jointly developing new applications and space technologies for future satellites.
The signing took place at the Paris Air and Space Show on 17 June 2015.
In the background from left to right: Josef Aschbacher, Head of Programme Planning and Coordination Service within ESA’s Earth Observation Directorate; Simonetta Cheli, Head of ESA Coordination Office Earth Observation, ESA; Ulrike Bohlmann, German attorney, ESA the Legal Department, ESA; Alex Held, Earth Observation Science and International Coordination, CSIRO.