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Join our community!EO AFRICA Community
Join our community!- Community building is a central aspect of the EO AFRICA Initiative. It will allow our stakeholders to follow-up on events and calls, participate in the Space Academy and/or make use of the Innovation Lab. Only by engaging with the community

Soil Moisture and Inland Water Monitoring with Satellite Radar
Dates: October 16 – 20, 2023 Deadline: October 2, 2023LAST REGISTRATION DAYS
Soil Moisture and Inland Water Monitoring with Satellite Radar
Dates: October 16 – 20, 2023 Deadline: October 2, 2023LAST REGISTRATION DAYS
- Face to Face course on Soil Moisture and Inland Water Monitoring with Satellite Radar | October 16 – 20, 2023 | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | This course is covering the general concepts of radar remote sensing, how radar/microwaves interact with soil and vegetation, soil moisture retrieval with satellite radar, and the concept of zenith radar altimetry.

The recording of «Use of Remote Sensing to Insure against the Peril Drought» Webinar is now available in our YouTube channel
Watch the recording of the WebinarThe recording of «Use of Remote Sensing to Insure against the Peril Drought» Webinar is now available in our YouTube channel
Watch the recording of the Webinar- The 12th Webinar on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel: Use of Remote Sensing to Insure against the Peril Drought The webinar provides insights concerning the developed EO-based insurance model that utilizes

Agricultural Drought Monitoring from Space
Dates: November 6 – 9, 2023 Deadline: October 9, 2023Registration is open!
Agricultural Drought Monitoring from Space
Dates: November 6 – 9, 2023 Deadline: October 9, 2023Registration is open!
- Face to Face course on Agricultural Drought Monitoring from Space | Date: November 6 – 9, 2023 | Cape Town, South Africa | In this course, participants will get an introduction on how to use satellite imagery for the purpose of agricultural drought monitoring at various spatial scales, ranging from continental to field scale.

Assessing vegetation dynamics from space with cloud-based EO analyses
Dates: November 19 – 23, 2023 Deadline: October 19, 2023Registration is open!
Assessing vegetation dynamics from space with cloud-based EO analyses
Dates: November 19 – 23, 2023 Deadline: October 19, 2023Registration is open!
- Face to Face course on Assessing vegetation dynamics from space with cloud-based EO analyses | Date: November 19 – 23, 2023 | Cairo, Egypt | In this course, participants will get an introduction to cloud-based techniques for assessing vegetation dynamics with Earth Observation data.

Version 2 of the MOOC on Drought Assessment and Monitoring from Space is launched
Enrol now!Version 2 of the MOOC on Drought Assessment and Monitoring from Space is launched
Enrol now!- Version 2 of the MOOC on Drought Assessment and Monitoring from Space is launched. Some additional webinars and descriptions of related research is included in the MOOC. For the presentations, both French and English subtitles can be displayed over the

EO AFRICA R&D Facility Forum
Join our online discussion forumEO AFRICA R&D Facility Forum
Join our online discussion forum- Announcing the implementation of the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Forum: We have recently implemented the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Forum as an online discussion board where people from the EO AFRICA community can ask questions, share their experiences, and discuss

Download Training Modules
8 downloadable training packagesDownload Training Modules
8 downloadable training packages- A total of 8 downloadable training packages have been developed. The content of most of the MOOC-chapters, webinars, online and face to face trainings is derived from these training packages. The packages are intended to be used in MSc level curricula in the field of EO for water and food security. All packages use free and open-software.
Why EO Africa
EO AFRICA stands for African Framework for Research Innovation, Communities and Applications in Earth Observation. EO AFRICA fosters an African-European R&D partnership, facilitating the sustainable adoption of the Earth Observation and related space technology in Africa – following an African user driven approach with a long-term (>10 years) vision for the digital era in Africa.
EO AFRICA Community

Community building is a central aspect of the EO AFRICA Initiative. It will allow our stakeholders to follow-up on events and calls, participate in the Space Academy and/or make use of the Innovation Lab. Only by engaging with the community
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The Space Academy is the institute of the EO AFRICA R&D Facility that will take care of the (co-)development, hosting and the certification of all the developed content. The Space Academy will provide a system to enrol candidates for the
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📢New @EOAfricaRD1 on-site course, this time in #Egypt:
join us to investigate the capabilities of #EO & #CloudComputing for assessing vegetation dynamics (In collaboration #NARSS) 🍃🛰️💻
🗓️Nov. 19 – 23, Cairo
🗓️Deadline for applications: Oct. 19
https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/face-to-face-courses/face-to-face-course-on-assessing-vegetation-dynamics-from-space-with-cloud-based-eo-analyses/
Still possible to register!
@EOAfricaRD1 #webinar
#indexcropinsurance 🌽
Upcoming @EOAfricaRD1 webinar:
To familiarize with the #EO-based #insurance model that utilizes #NDVI to quantitatively assess occurring agronomic #droughts 🌱
🗓️September 19, 14h00 CET
https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/webinars/#webinar12
Registrations at: https://utwente-nl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8_bPJx_dTJKsgTmdsE12gw#/registration
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Upcoming @EOAfricaRD1 webinar:
To familiarize with the #EO-based #insurance model that utilizes #NDVI to quantitatively assess occurring agronomic #droughts 🌱
🗓️September 19, 14h00 CET
https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/webinars/#webinar12
Registrations at: https://utwente-nl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8_bPJx_dTJKsgTmdsE12gw#/registration
@EO_OPEN_SCIENCE