Equipment and infrastructure
Ever since its foundation, the IRD has maintained and managed capital equipment and scientific infrastructure for research focused on Southern countries’ development needs. With two oceanographic vessels, the Alis in the Pacific and the Antea in the tropical Atlantic, satellite receiving stations in French Guiana and La Réunion and medical research laboratories such as the mother and child malaria research platform in Benin, the IRD and its equipment are at work on land and at sea throughout the intertropical zone.
The Institute adopts the approach of pooling resources so that equipment with the most advanced technology can be provided, not only in Metropolitan France but also in the French overseas territories and other countries.
