22nd on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series

Announcing the EO AFRICA R&D Research Projects – Awarded Proposals (Fourth Call)

2025-08-19 Following the successful first three rounds of calls for research proposals, the EO AFRICA R&D Facility, in coordination with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the African Union Commission (AUC), launched in Apr 2025 a 4^th call for proposals. The aim of this call is to extend the support to African-European collaborative research efforts in the domain of EO applications. [Read more...]

Call to contribute to advancing urban climate research in Africa

2025-08-08 The CAIAC (Climate Analysis in African Cities) project is an international collaboration between the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), the African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD), and the University of Ottawa, with support from the European Space Agency (ESA). [Read more...]

21st on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel

2025-05-13 The 21st Webinar on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel: Deriving Water Quality Indicators and Indices from Sentinel-2 Using Cloud Computing The webinar explores the methodologies for deriving water quality indicators from [Read more...]

20th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel

2025-05-13 The 20th Webinar on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel: Using the new H SAF 6.25km ASCAT soil moisture data for drought monitoring The ASCAT soil moisture service, offered by EUMETSAT, is [Read more...]

Advisory Board Announcement

2025-04-24 We are pleased to announce that Professor Abel Ramoelo, Executive Director of Earth Observation at the South African National Space Agency (SANSA), has joined our Advisory Board. [Read more...]

19th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel

2025-04-09 The 19th Webinar on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel: Mapping Our Planet in High Resolution: Advancing Land Cover and Degradation Monitoring with Sentinel Data This webinar introduces the fundamentals of PolInSAR [Read more...]

18th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel

2025-03-26 The 18th Webinar on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel: Mapping Our Planet in High Resolution: Advancing Land Cover and Degradation Monitoring with Sentinel Data This webinar explores how these innovations, coupled [Read more...]

Version 3 of the MOOC on Drought Assessment and Monitoring from Space

2025-01-20 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 and English subtitles can be displayed over the presentation. [Read more...]

EO AFRICA R&D Facility – 2024 Overview

2024-12-20 2024 was an exciting year for all involved in the EOAFRICA R&D Facility. Phase 1 ended successfully with the 10th F2F course being held in Senegal jointly with Laboratoire de télédétection appliquée, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar in Dakar. [Read more...]

17th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel

2024-12-18 The 17th Webinar on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel: Advances in EO Cloud Computing: OpenEO This webinar explores the growing role of cloud computing in analyzing and processing Earth Observation (EO) [Read more...]

22nd on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series

Combining optical and SAR data for mapping water bodies and floods

Wednesday, 15 October 2025, 14:00 CEST (UTC + 2) Online webinar with live-chat This webinar presents the key changes in the ASCAT soil moisture retrieval algorithm and explain how they contribute to improved drought monitoring. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/webinars/#webinar22

22nd on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series

5th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Second Phase Face to Face Courses

The course is open for applicants from AFRICA only!

Face-to-Face course on Cloud Computing and Algorithms for EO Analyses

December 1 - 5, 2025 Tunis, Tunisia 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. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/face-to-face-courses-rdf2/face-to-face-course-on-cloud-computing-and-algorithms-for-eo-analyses-part-2/

5th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Second Phase Face to Face Courses

6th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Second Phase Online Courses

The course is open for applicants from AFRICA only

Low-resolution EO for drought monitoring

November 10 - December 5, 2025 Online course with live-chat This course will explore the potential of the temporal dimension of low-resolution satellite EO data for monitoring such dynamics over longer periods of time. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/on-line-courses-rdf2/online-course-on-low-resolution-eo-for-drought-monitoring/

6th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Second Phase Online Courses

21st on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series

Deriving Water Quality Indicators and Indices from Sentinel-2 Using Cloud Computing

Wednesday, 23 April 2025, 14:00 CEST (UTC + 2) Online webinar with live-chat This webinar explores the methodologies for deriving water quality indicators from Sentinel-2 data using cloud computing. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/webinars/#webinar21

21st on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series

5th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Second Phase Online Courses

The course is open for applicants from AFRICA only

PolInSAR Processing and Applications

May 26 - June 20, 2025 Online course with live-chat This online course equips participants with a fundamental knowledge of PolInSAR processing and application concepts. During the course participants will refresh their knowledge of principles and properties of SAR remote sensing and SAR images interpretation. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/on-line-courses-rdf2/online-course-on-polinsar-processing-and-applications/

5th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Second Phase Online Courses

20th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series

Using the new H SAF 6.25km ASCAT soil moisture data for drought monitoring

Wednesday, 16 April 2025, 15:00 CEST (UTC + 2) Online webinar with live-chat This webinar presents the key changes in the ASCAT soil moisture retrieval algorithm and explain how they contribute to improved drought monitoring. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/webinars/#webinar20

20th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series

19th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series

Introduction to PolInSAR for agriculture monitoring and mapping

Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 14:00 CET (UTC + 1) Online webinar with live-chat This webinar introduces the fundamentals of PolInSAR technology and its possible applications in agriculture monitoring based on selected case studies in Africa. We will explore PolInSAR capabilities in estimating vegetation height and biomass, tracking phenological stages, and improving precision farming practices. Additionally, we will present tools available for accessing PolInSAR data, present and future satellite missions to provide fully polarimetric data and showcase selected case studies focused on agriculture. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/webinars/#webinar19

19th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series

4th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Second Phase Online Courses

The course is open for applicants from AFRICA only

High-resolution crop monitoring for food security using EO

April 14 - May 9, 2025 Online course with live-chat The ever-increasing spatial resolution offered by the newest generation of satellite sensors allow us to monitor crops at the scale of individual parcels and to quantitatively estimate or predict agricultural production (area × yield) and water-use for applications in food security analysis. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/on-line-courses-rdf2/online-course-on-high-resolution-crop-monitoring-for-food-security-using-eo/

4th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Second Phase Online Courses

4th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Second Phase Face to Face Courses

The course is open for applicants from AFRICA only!

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. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/face-to-face-courses-rdf2/face-to-face-course-on-agricultural-monitoring-from-space/

4th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Second Phase Face to Face Courses

18th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series

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. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/webinars/#webinar18

18th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series

📰 Last June the @EOAfricaRD1 Researchers-R3 presented their projects at the @esa #LPS25.
We are excited to share the latest progress updates of these collaborative projects. Take a moment to explore the preliminary results of our dedicated researchers:https://t.co/0mop5Dho8E pic.twitter.com/G5XMBrew56
— EO AFRICA R&D Facility (@EOAfricaRD1) September 11, 2025

Do you know that we have a call for collaborative research projects open until the 🗓️ 15th of June 2025?https://t.co/YZbNZdrhN7

Here's the take of #RoelofRietbroek, @EOAfricaRD1 research coordinator on the call 🤓 : pic.twitter.com/tfMAsBwPlW
— EO AFRICA R&D Facility (@EOAfricaRD1) May 27, 2025

📽️ 2 new @EOAfricaRD1 #webinars in our #YouTube channel:

👉🏼 Water 💦 Quality Indicators from Sentinel-2 :https://t.co/Vr8x3nPI1Y

👉🏼 H SAF ASCAT 🛰️ Soil Moisture Data for Drought Monitoring: https://t.co/OzMB2J550g pic.twitter.com/mhKFZZHVOf
— EO AFRICA R&D Facility (@EOAfricaRD1) May 13, 2025

‼️ Last days to apply for the upcoming @EOAfricaRD1 #online course: PolInSAR Processing and Applicationshttps://t.co/leNR7kkNPD
Hurry-up!! 🏃🏽🏃🏽‍♀️#SAR #PolInSAR #InSAR #EO #Africa #PolSAR pic.twitter.com/eHkxv9mnSx
— EO AFRICA R&D Facility (@EOAfricaRD1) May 7, 2025

📢 a 🆕call for Research Proposals is open to support African & European #research tandems in developing innovative, #EO algorithms & applications to address African 🌍 challenges in #water and #foodsecurity

🗓️Deadline for submission: 15 June 2025 https://t.co/YZbNZdrhN7 pic.twitter.com/UgDuWOe46x
— EO AFRICA R&D Facility (@EOAfricaRD1) April 14, 2025