Author(s)

Lewis Pyenson¹, Arak M. Mathai², Hans J. Haubold³

¹Department of History, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, USA.
²Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
³Office for Outer Space Affairs, United Nations, Vienna International Centre, Vienna, Austria.

Based on resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly, UN-affiliated Regional Centres for Space Science and Technology Education were established in China, India, Morocco, Nigeria, Brazil/Mexico, and Jordan. Simultaneously, education curricula at the university level were developed for the core disciplines of remote sensing, satellite communications, satellite meteorology, space and atmospheric science, and global navigation satellite systems. In 2017, these education curricula were supplemented by the publication of two open access books covering full university courses in linear algebra and probability & statistics.

Regional Education Centres, Education Curricula, Space and Atmospheric Science, Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System, Satellite Communications, Satellite Meteorology and Global Climate, Global Navigation Satellite Systems, Linear Algebra, Probability and Statistics

Pyenson, L. , Mathai, A. and Haubold, H. (2019) United Nations Education Program in Space Science and Technology 1988-2018. Creative Education, 10, 2219-2231. doi: 10.4236/ce.2019.1010160.