Hungarian expert elected for First Vice President of COPUOS

The Vienna International Center hosting COPUOS. Image: HUNAGI Visuals Resource, 2006


Dr. Előd Both elected First Vice President of COPUOS for 2006-2007

The forty-ninth session of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space was held from 7-16 June 2006 at the United Nation Office at Vienna, Vienna International Center, Vienna, Austria. The session elected Dr. Előd Both, Director of the Hungarian Space Research Office as First Vice President of COPUOS for 2006-2007.
In one of the thematic session chaired by Dr. Lothar Beckel, Dr. Éva Csató of FÖMI Remote Sensing Centre delivered a presentation on forestry application of remote sensing. As posted on this blog in March this year, the Space Atlas for Schools written by Lothar Beckel was first published in German and Hungarian languages. The Hungarian version was a joint work of two HUNAGI member organisations (FÖMI and Geo-Data Ltd) supported by the Hungarian Space Research Office.
Available online resources are available at:
Technical Presentations made at the Forty-ninth session of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space Symposium on "Space and Forests": online presentations
Daily Journals for the Forty-ninth session of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space