1 . In terms of technology transfer, the NAÏLA collective carries out several actions for the members of the users’ committee:
- Training and production of technical documents relating to 1/ the use of micro-meteorological data for monitoring the water consumption of citrus fruits, and 2/ the use of cultural coefficients for the management of irrigation, and this for the benefiting farmers through technical centres;
- Training seminars (in Tunisia) and training stays (in France) on the processing of satellite data for the digital mapping of soils in connection with the agro-climatic and agro-hydrological potentialities at the scale of the Tunisian national territory, for the benefit of ministerial technical departments.
2 . In terms of expertise:
- Several members of NAÏLA officiate as experts in scientific committees for the benefit of space agencies (CNES, NASA, ISRO), with a view to contributing to the dimensioning of future dedicated satellite missions (MISTIGRI, THIRSTY, TRISHNA), among others , monitoring the processes that drive the evolution of water and soil resources in semi-arid agricultural environments.