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EO AFRICA Community

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March 2, 2023
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EO AFRICA Community

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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
Face to Face Courses

Parcel-based Crop Monitoring from Space

Dates: January 22 – 26, 2024 Deadline: December 23, 2023

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November 21, 2023
Face to Face Courses

Parcel-based Crop Monitoring from Space

Dates: January 22 – 26, 2024 Deadline: December 23, 2023

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    • Face to Face course on Parcel-based Crop Monitoring from Space | Date: January 22 – 26, 2024 | Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal | Get ready to take part in this 5-day training with colleagues from all over the continent and learn how to tackle the challenges of Food Security by exploiting high resolution satellite observations to monitor crop production at individual field scale. The course consists of presentations and practical exercises in Python.
Webinar Series

Crop mapping in Zankalon, Egypt using different ML classifiers in Python

Date:
December 6, 2023, 14:00 CET

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November 10, 2023
Webinar Series

Crop mapping in Zankalon, Egypt using different ML classifiers in Python

Date:
December 6, 2023, 14:00 CET

Registration is open!

    • Crop mapping in Zankalon, Egypt using different ML classifiers in Python | December 6, 2023, 14:00 CET (GMT+1) | Online webinar with live-chat | In this webinar the introduction and overview of the machine learning algorithms and classifiers will be provided with a special focus on supervised ML methods such as: Random Forest, Support Vector Machines and unsupervised ML methods such as K-means.
Announcements

Version 2 of the MOOC on Drought Assessment and Monitoring from Space is launched

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May 3, 2023
Announcements

Version 2 of the MOOC on Drought Assessment and Monitoring from Space is launched

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  • 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
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EO AFRICA R&D Facility Forum

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September 15, 2022
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EO AFRICA R&D Facility Forum

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  • 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
Announcements

Download Training Modules

8 downloadable training packages
April 7, 2022
Announcements

Download 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.
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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

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

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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