Egypt’s Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Hany Sweilam has witnessed the signing of a cooperation protocol between the Egyptian Survey Authority (ESA) and the Military Survey Department of the Armed Forces Engineering Authority for a project of operating fixed stations with various monitoring systems.
The protocol was signed by Khaled Amin, the Chairperson of the ESA, and Mohamed Radwan, the Director of the Military Survey Department.
Sweilam stated that the signing of this protocol comes within the framework of the state’s direction to unify the coordinate systems used in the country into a unified standard coordinate system so that it is used by all government agencies and civil cadastral companies authorized to carry out cadastral work in order to achieve speed and efficiency in implementing national projects.
The ESA is the official body entrusted with the establishment of networks of basic ground constants for the state, as well as measurements and accurate budget calculations with the aim of establishing benchmarks, as well as local gravity measurements and their calculations, as well as the creation of basic maps for the state.
The authority has established a network of fixed stations covering in its first phase the valley and delta regions, where the authority seeks to operate this network to achieve the maximum benefit from it in serving the national projects and to achieve a financial return that helps the authority to increase its resources and modernize and develop this network to serve the country’s development goals and achieve optimal use resources available to the authority.
Sweilam praised the distinguished technical capabilities of the Military Survey Department that enable it to provide services of modern technologies related to geographic information systems, in addition to carrying out all survey work with high accuracy and quality, using the latest international devices and technologies.
The protocol aims to achieve cooperation between the two sides to maximize the benefit from the project of fixed stations, which consists of 44 stations spread in the Delta to Matrouh in the west and the Nile Valley to Edfu in the south. All government agencies and the private sector can benefit from the project and use different monitoring methods, which will contribute to speeding up the implementation of surveying works with high accuracy.
