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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

Parcel-based Crop Monitoring from Space
Dates: January 22 – 26, 2024 Deadline: December 23, 2023Registration is open!
Parcel-based Crop Monitoring from Space
Dates: January 22 – 26, 2024 Deadline: December 23, 2023Registration is open!
- 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.

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
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.

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

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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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October was a busy month for the @EOAfricaRD1
with courses delivered in #Kigali & #DaresSalaam, and presentations during the @SADC_WaterNet
symposium in #Zanzibar. Great to connect with our #EOAFRICA community 🌍😊
More details and impressions at https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/activities-eo-africa-rd-october-2023/
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