 Hello, my name is Einar Bialgo, I'm the director of the UNOSAT program with the UN Institute for Training and Research based here in Geneva, Switzerland. UNOSAT is the operational satellite applications program of our institute and it's a program that has been around for quite a while back since 2001, focusing on the use of satellite imagery applications in support of the United Nations sister agencies but also very much contributing with analysis in support of countries. So the UNOSAT program is basically focusing on satellite imagery analysis but also training and capacity development on the technology. So in that sense we often meet people and we discuss with people from government sectors around the world that have a need for satellite imagery and derived information not necessarily satellite imagery per se but satellite imagery derived information and what we see often is that for them it's extremely important that whatever is developed is sustainable and there's been many many pilot projects around demonstrating the use of technologies but what we typically hear from them is that you need to make these services and these products sustainable so that can either be through feeds, information feeds that are sent to them or also you know in many cases governments wants to make their own and also UN agencies wants to make their own analysis. So being able to be sustainable in that sense I think links to many aspects and both of course the sustainability of the technology itself and that we can have satellite energies that are you know that they're going to be there and then the census is going to be there is going to be providing information which we use in order to make informed decisions over time. So the temporal aspect is very important and I think also their space and the earth observation has a good track record and look at the Landsat series it's been there since 1972 so I think that the time aspect it's very important then of course another interesting aspect in this and I think you also wear a space it's a great benefit is that you can apply the same technology in so many different areas and that is also what in the end will help make this technology sustainable and will feed a feedback through sustainability if you like into this type of technology. So when you see about satellite energy and drive information and we know today that of course you have the sustainable development agenda with its 17 development goals it's part of an overarching aspect an overarching framework let's say called the sustainable development agenda and when we see how satellite images can feed into that it's quite astonishing because here we have also global data that are collected every day and there are not that many sensors and information sources if you like that has that capability. So satellite images are actually you know and that type of part of the space business is something that has a profound impact and will have an increasingly profound impact on development. So not only can we can we measure some of the many indicators that have been defined but also satellite images is simply helping countries with information so that they can derive their own policies making sure that information is shared among agencies and this is objective information that is shared among agencies. So satellite images you know there are well-defined aspects of this that ensures scientific approaches to deriving products from this type of data and being able to do that from a from a national perspective is extremely important. So having you know both a long track record having universities research always providing and finding out new good solutions for how to make derived product out of this be it looking at deforestation be it looking at environmental emergencies in our case we often look at the effects from natural hazards once we come into crisis situations and we see how extremely important these information sources and we've done that over time and what is interesting now and I think this is also where sustainability becomes very important is that satellite imagery now is starting to actually be taken seriously if you like it's not that it's never been taken serious but it's been taken serious in the sense that it's now becoming part of decision-making processes before it was a little bit I would say a tool for technicians and that could you know give you useful information but now what we see is that this type of information is being integrated into decision making and once you do that then you're also feeding into a sustainability aspect of these type of technologies. So I think what we what we've seen developing now over time is that satellite images used used to be a tool for the experts and now we're seeing it little by little we're not quite there yet and we do need to definitely make effort but what we see is that little by little this technology is becoming a tool at the country level and this is what we as the United Nations and the UN Institute for Training and Research is very much focusing on we want to see these capacities being developed in countries so that national entities themselves can make use of space technologies. So we have as I said a fantastic opportunity here we have global data for global goals and this is something that we can definitely proud of and I think that the satellite images are perfect in this sense. So the information that countries will have to play with in the future is going to be so much better it's going to be so much more and I'm quite optimistic in terms of sustainability because there's a lot of things that's been changing lately as we all know but being able to monitor things from remote is also definitely something that people are really getting their eyes out for so in that terms satellite images have really has a huge very bright future and I'm sure that it will be feeding into many many important decision-making processes and much more than today and but also of course important to make sure that the systems are operational that they are predictable and that they are also coming at the cost that countries can afford and again there of course very very nice to see many data becoming are already available and open free and open source so that's another important aspect for this and I think that we will see lots of great use of satellite images moving forward. Thank you very much.