Criteria |
Relative Weight |
- Initiate site selection and develop technical specifications for a real-time remote sensing ground-station to serve the instructional and research needs of the participating academic departments at Cairo University and at Al Azhar University, as well as the operational needs of appropriate end-user governmental & multilateral agencies and NGO’s.
|
15% |
- Solicit multiple bids from private sector industries for timely delivery and installation of receiving dishes, relevant computer hardware, data acquisition and processing software, customer support services and associated systems training.
|
10% |
- Provide instruction in real-time remote sensing, image analysis, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and decision support to faculty, staff and students for the KEEO and for the governmental, multi-lateral agencies and NGO staffers who shall be the primary end-users.
|
5% |
- Select the winning vendor, initiate and complete construction of the ground-station, fibre optic connectivity and critically redundant computational facilities.
|
20% |
- Conduct appropriate beta-testing, calibration and benchmarking of the KEEO.
|
10% |
- Establish near-real-time mechanisms, procedures and emergency response protocols to disseminate data from the KEEO to end-users.
|
10% |
- Assist in curriculum development at Cairo University and Al Azhar University to ensure that there is a steady pipeline of young scholars entering the workforce who are suitably trained in remote sensing data acquisition, spatial data analysis, data interpretation, data dissemination and in decision-making within a data-rich context, particularly as relates to time critical events, such as epidemics, epizootics and both biogenic and anthropogenic disasters.
|
10% |
ONE YEAR AFTER COMPLETION OF THE PROJECT |
|
- Publish a guide for implementation & best management practices (BMPs) for real-time remote sensing deployment initiatives for early warning & mitigation of disasters, including epidemics and epizootics, that could facilitate replication of such facilities in other countries.
|
20% |
TOTAL |
100% |
