Ministry of Irrigation, Military Survey Department sign cooperation protocol

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.