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18th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series
Webinar Series14:00 - 15:00 CET (UTC + 1)
Online with live-chat
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- Mapping Our Planet in High Resolution: Advancing Land Cover and Degradation Monitoring with Sentinel Data | Wednesday, 5 February 2025, 14:00 CET (UTC + 1) | Online webinar with live-chat | This webinar explores how these innovations, coupled with emerging datasets and services, are being utilized to monitor global land cover and land degradation, supporting sustainable development and environmental conservation. Specifically, the webinar will delve into experiences of producing the 100m Copernicus Global Land Cover dataset (available for 2015–2019), the European Space Agency (ESA) WorldCover Project, which has further advanced land cover monitoring by producing 10m resolution global land cover maps, and the new Copernicus Land Cover and Tropical Forest Monitoring Service (LCFM), designed to provide dynamic, high-resolution datasets on the status and changes of global land cover and pan-tropical forests.
MOOC on Drought Assessment and Monitoring from Space v3
R&D Facility
Cloud Computing and Algorithms for EO Analyses
Face to Face CoursesDeadline: Feb 16, 2025
Venue: Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
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- Face to Face course on Cloud Computing and Algorithms for EO Analyses | March 10 – 14, 2025 | Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire | A 5-day course (6h per day), covering Cloud Computing and big geospatial data concepts, interactive computing with Python through Jupyter Notebooks, and access to EO data from DIAS platforms or via dedicated Python libraries and handling the data on the Cloud.
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R&D Facility1: General
2: EO for Water Resources and Security
3: EO for Food Security
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R&D Facilities
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
Space Academy
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