Pursuit of Nigeria into Space for Sustainable Development

Ikpaya, Ikpaya; Onuh, Spencer; Achem, Christopher U.; Okehie, Baslem M.; Madalla, Fidelis

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-51941-8_11

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“…With a total of five (5) satellites launched between 2003 and 2012, the nation has established sustainable national growth and demonstrated peaceful utilisation of outer space by economic, educational, humanitarian and governmental applications [9]. The three remote sensing satellites; NigeriaSat-1, NigeriaSat-X and NigeriaSat-2 and two communications satellites; NIGCOMSAT-1 and NIGCOMSAT-1R highlighted the status of space operations and adhered to globally agreed practice of the peaceful use of outer space treaty [10].…”

Section: Overview Of the Nigerian Space Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Joining other nations in space operations; the Nigerian Earth Observation satellites are part of the Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL)-coordinated Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC). This network of satellites includes spacecrafts from Algeria, China, Spain, Turkey, and the UK, they provide rapid imagery from space when environmental disasters occur [10,11].…”

Section: Overview Of the Nigerian Space Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…NIGCOMSAT-1 and NIGCOMSAT-1R have been used for tele-medicine, teleconferencing, data transfer, internet services, e-library etc. [10].…”

Section: Overview Of the Nigerian Space Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…NASRDA is made up of seven (7) activity centres to implement research and development programmes and foster local and international collaboration in order to provide solutions for sustainable national socio-economic development and help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) [10].…”

Section: Overview Of the Nigerian Space Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Since inception, NASRDA has focused on intellectual capital, training engineers and scientists in all areas of satellite technology in Know How Transfer Training (KHTT) programmes in UK, China and Ukraine. NASRDA has also recorded training of over a hundred and twenty staff (120) at Masters Level and over seventy (70) staff at PhD level [10,14].…”

Section: Overview Of the Nigerian Space Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Evolving a Sustainable Paradigm for Harnessing Intellectual Resources in the Nigerian Space Industry

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Sustainable Organizations - Models, Applications, and New Perspectives

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Over the years, one of the ways that have been identified as pivotal in building sustainable organisations is the manpower development component of any organisation. Such manpower development through capacity building can be gained by training and retraining to retool the workforce into having the relevant and up to date skill set that spurs competitiveness and growth. For the Nigerian space industry, this human capacity development component has been embraced, encouraged and adopted into a working model for sustainability. The Nigerian Space Industry has leveraged on its potential to harness its intellectual capital through a collaborative culture with national and international partners to provide sustainable growth in attaining technological competence in Space Science and Technology (SST). In this chapter, we present a capacity building context as a model by which Nigeria’s Space Industry mobilises its intellectual resources and collaborative efforts towards achieving sustainable development.

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Section: Overview Of the Nigerian Space Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Overview Of the Nigerian Space Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…NIGCOMSAT-1 and NIGCOMSAT-1R have been used for tele-medicine, teleconferencing, data transfer, internet services, e-library etc. [10].…”

Section: Overview Of the Nigerian Space Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Overview Of the Nigerian Space Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Overview Of the Nigerian Space Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Development of SHACS: Progress on Channel-1 Prototype Demonstrator

Ikpaya

Underwood

2022

IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing

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Towards high-temporal-resolution global monitoring of atmospheric carbon-dioxide using a compact spaceborne spatial heterodyne SWIR spectrometer: SHACS

Ikpaya

Underwood

2023

Infrared Technology and Applications XLIX

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The issue of climate change is of ever-increasing concern to the global community and key to understanding the problem is the characterization of sources, sinks and transportation of greenhouse gases (GHGs) such as atmospheric carbondioxide (CO2). This requires space-based observations to provide a truly global picture, due to the sparse nature of terrestrial monitoring sites. The sparseness of these sites, especially along the tropics makes it difficult to determine the extent of carbon fluxes around the equatorial regions. To fully characterize the problem, a high spatial and temporal resolution is needed. Although atmospheric CO2 can be detected optically by small satellites, precise quantitative mapping requires extremely high precision (0.3% to 0.5%) measurements of gas concentrations at spectral absorption bands of 1.56-1.62μm and 1.92-2.06μm wavelengths, using high resolution spectrometers (e.g. 0.27 cm-1 resolution at a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of >300:1). This normally requires high-performance, large and complex instruments, carried by single, large and expensive satellites. No single satellite can provide high temporal resolution. Therefore, a constellation of satellites is needed to resolve the underestimation of CO2 uptake (sink) by the terrestrial biosphere. In this paper, we present the developmental progress of SHACS—a low-cost, compact, precision, robust, no-moving part spatial heterodyne atmospheric carbon-dioxide spectrometer, and also present some results of the Total Column Carbon-dioxide (TCCO2) measurements obtained at Surrey in June 2019. The SHACS instrument has achieved a high measurement precision of <0.3% and a high spectral resolution of 0.22 cm-1 at a high SNR of >900:1.

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Pursuit of Nigeria into Space for Sustainable Development

Cited by 4 publications

References 1 publication

Evolving a Sustainable Paradigm for Harnessing Intellectual Resources in the Nigerian Space Industry

Evolving a Sustainable Paradigm for Harnessing Intellectual Resources in the Nigerian Space Industry

Development of SHACS: Progress on Channel-1 Prototype Demonstrator

Towards high-temporal-resolution global monitoring of atmospheric carbon-dioxide using a compact spaceborne spatial heterodyne SWIR spectrometer: SHACS

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