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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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March 2, 2023
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  • Face to Face course on Agricultural Monitoring from Space | April 7 – 11, 2025 | Abuja, Nigeria | A 5-day course (6h per day), including theoretical lectures and hands-on exercises to increase your understanding and skills related to the use of satellite data for agricultural monitoring.
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Agricultural Monitoring from Space

Dates: April 7 – 11, 2025
Deadline: March 5, 2025
Venue: Abuja, Nigeria

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February 12, 2025
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Version 3 of the MOOC on Drought Assessment and Monitoring from Space is launched. The Chapters on Cloud Computing and Earth Observations Advances have been updated. Some additional webinars are included in the MOOC v3. For the presentations, both French
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MOOC on Drought Assessment and Monitoring from Space v3

The updated version of MOOC (v3) is here.

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January 20, 2025
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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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Cloud Computing and Algorithms for EO Analyses

Dates: March 10 – 14, 2025
Deadline: February 16, 2025
Venue: Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

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November 8, 2024
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A total of 11 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, general EO knowledge and skills, Cloud Computing, Atmosphere and PolINSAR. All packages use free and open-software.
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1: General
2: EO for Water Resources and Security
3: EO for Food Security
4: POLinSAR processing and app...
5: Atmospheric composition proc...
6: Marine and Coastal resources app...

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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.

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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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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

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