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    10th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel

    2023-05-17 The 10th Webinar on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel: Drought Monitoring case studies in Africa The webinar describes ways to monitor drought events using microwave Earth Observation data. Existing methods for [Read more...]

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

    2023-05-03 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 [Read more...]

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

    2023-03-08 EO AFRICA R&D Research Projects 2023-2024 – Awarded Proposals: EO AFRICA R&D Research Projects 2023-2024 Following the successful Call for Research Proposals 2022-2023, the EO AFRICA R&D Facility, in coordination with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the African Union [Read more...]

    9th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel

    2023-02-21 The 9th Webinar on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel: Global flood monitoring and Surface Soil Moisture anomalies The webinar describes ways to monitor flood events and surface soil moisture on a [Read more...]

    8th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel

    2023-02-08 The 8th Webinar on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel: fPAR as a Proxy for Yield Estimation/Forecasting The webinar provides a biological basis for crop yield estimation and within-season forecasting with Earth [Read more...]

    African Research Fellowships Call 2023

    2023-02-02 We are pleased to announce the 2023 AUC-ESA call that will offer 1-year fellowships to 4 new African Researchers to work at the ESA-ESRIN premises in Frascati (Rome, Italy) in synergy with ESA projects and scientists. More information here: https://eo4society.esa.int/2022/12/02/arf2023/ [Read more...]

    7th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel

    2022-12-22 The 7th Webinar on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel: Flood Mapping with Sentinel-1 data This webinar will focus on the importance and use of Sentinel-1 SAR data for flood mapping. With [Read more...]

    October 2022, EO Africa R&D Facility events

    2022-11-16 October 2022 was a busy month for the EO AFRICA R&D Facility, have a look at our activities during that month:   October 2022, EO Africa R&D Facility events [Read more...]

    AARSE 2022 – October 24-28, 2022

    2022-10-28 During the AARSE 2022 International Conference, session: β€œIntegrated Geospatial technologies in agriculture and food security”, Diana Chavarro-Rincon presented the EO AFRICA R&D Facility: Enabling a proactive African research community and creative innovation processes to address food security and water related [Read more...]

    Hackathon – GMES & Africa – October 24-28, 2022

    2022-10-28 Parallel to the AARSE 2022, the GMES & Africa in partnership with the Rwanda Space Agency, Carnegie Mellon University Africa and the ESA EO AFRICA Initiative conducted an EO hackathon. During this hackathon the participants had to opportunity to tackle [Read more...]

    Events

    11th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series

    Surface Soil Moisture products at continental scale

    June 13, 2023, 14:00 CET Online webinar with live-chat The webinar will give an overview of high-resolution (1 km) satellite soil moisture data sets available at continental to global scale. These data sets are either derived by downscaling coarse resolution data from passive (SMAP, SMOS, AMSR2) and active (ASCAT) microwave sensors using optical or Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data, or by deriving the soil moisture data directly from only the SAR data. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/webinars/#webinar11
    11th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series

    8th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Online Courses


    Assessing potential use of water resources in an African river basin

    June 19 – July 14, 2023 Online course with live-chat This online course will show participants how to relate the water balance components (precipitation, evaporation, run-off and groundwater recharge) to identify surpluses of water and possible potential usage of those water resources in the area. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/on-line-courses/assessing-potential-use-of-water-resources-in-an-african-river-basin/
    8th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Online Courses

    10th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series

    Drought Monitoring case studies in Africa

    April 11, 2023, 14:00 CET Online webinar with live-chat The webinar will describe ways to monitor drought events using microwave Earth Observation data. Existing methods for the calculation of climate normals, anomalies and drought indicators will be described and demonstrated over Africa. The strength and weaknesses of the indicators and an evaluation with common drought indicators such as Standardized Precipitation Index will be discussed. Furthermore, the use of soil moisture for early season yield prediction will be discussed. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/webinars/#webinar10
    10th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series

    7th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Online Courses

    Monitoring Vegetation Dynamics from Space

    April 3 – 28, 2023 Online course with live-chat In this course, you will be exploring the potential of the temporal dimension of satellite EO data for monitoring vegetation dynamics and land cover/land use changes over longer periods of time. Aside from learning the theoretical concepts of hyper-temporal monitoring, the participants will acquire practical skills in how to acquire, pre-process and analyse long time series of satellite EO data. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/on-line-courses/monitoring-vegetation-dynamics-from-space/
    7th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Online Courses

    Registration is open for Face to Face course on Cloud Computing and Algorithms for EO Analyses


    Please note that while it is not a requirement, priority for this course will be given to participants who also plan to attend and have an abstract accepted by the WCRP Open Science Conference. The Abstract Submission Portal is open until 14 March 2023.

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

    October 17 – 21, 2023 Kigali, Rwanda This course introduces participants to Cloud Computing and its usage for Earth Observation (EO) data analyses. It starts with big geospatial data concepts and extends to Cloud Computing as one of the solutions for solving the problems of big EO data. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/face-to-face-courses/face-to-face-course-on-cloud-computing-and-algorithms-for-eo-analyses/
    Registration is open for Face to Face course on Cloud Computing and Algorithms for EO Analyses

    9th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series

    Global flood monitoring and Surface Soil Moisture anomalies

    February 14, 2023, 14:00 CET Online webinar with live-chat The webinar will describe ways to monitor flood events and surface soil moisture on a global scale, using microwave Earth Observation data. Current research topics will be described that are relevant for use cases in Africa (e.g. subsurface scattering in arid regions). The validation of flood monitoring and of soil moisture products will be discussed. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/webinars/#webinar9
    9th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series

    8th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series

    fPAR as a Proxy for Yield Estimation/Forecasting

    January 23, 2023, 14:00 CET Online webinar with live-chat The webinar provides a biological basis for crop yield estimation and within-season forecasting with Earth observation image data. We facilitate the introduction with a β€œbig leaf” approach to light-use efficiency. Big leaf models assume canopies are homogenous and the response of the canopy to light is linear. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/webinars/#webinar8
    8th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series

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

    Soil Moisture from Space

    March 6 – 31, 2023 Online course with live-chat This online course will provide participants with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge on electromagnetic radiation and its interaction with materials, (passive) radiometry and thermal emission, and (active) radar equation, backscattering and SAR image processing. It will introduce radiative transfer model (also called Tau-omega for passive microwave for land) and water-cloud model (active), as well as corresponding retrievals of soil moisture. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/on-line-courses/soil-moisture-from-space/
    6th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Online Courses

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

    Hyper-Temporal Mapping of Agro-Ecosystems Assessing Land Suitability

    February 6 – March 3, 2023 Online course with live-chat From early 2000 onwards, the availability of high-quality Hyper-Temporal (HT) EO, has created an enormous number of additional possibilities to map and detect changes as required to monitor impacts. Use of the dimensions β€œspace time” now lets us study and work on issues that earlier remained β€œout-of-reach” and remained β€œunanswered”. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/on-line-courses/hyper-temporal-mapping-of-agro-ecosystems-assessing-land-suitability/
    5th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Online Courses

    6th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Face to Face Courses

    Face to Face course on Vegetation and Drought Monitoring from Space

    January 23 – 27, 2023 CRASTE-LF, Rabat, Morocco A 5-day trainingΒ to learn how to tackle the challenges of Food Security by exploiting satellite observations to monitor the occurrence and impacts of droughts on agricultural productivity at various spatial scales. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/face-to-face-courses/face-to-face-course-on-vegetation-and-drought-monitoring-from-space/
    6th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Face to Face Courses

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    eoafricard1 EO AFRICA R&D Facility @eoafricard1 ·
    23 Mar

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    eoafricard1 EO AFRICA R&D Facility @eoafricard1 ·
    23 Mar

    Interested to learn the interrelationships of the water balance components (#precipitation, #evaporation, #runoff & #groundwater) to evaluate water availability in #Africa? πŸ’§πŸŒ
    Join this upcoming @EOAfricaRD1 #online course:

    Details at https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/on-line-courses/assessing-potential-use-of-water-resources-in-an-african-river-basin/

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    eoafricard1 EO AFRICA R&D Facility @eoafricard1 ·
    21 Mar

    πŸ“’New @EOAfricaRD1 #webinar:
    Do you want to learn how to monitor #drought events using #microwave #EO data?
    Join Dr Mariette Vreugdenhil @jetvreugdenhil from our consortium partner @tu_wien on πŸ—“οΈApril 11 14:00 CET πŸ›°οΈπŸŒ
    Register at https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/webinars/#webinar10

    @EO_OPEN_SCIENCE

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    eoafricard1 EO AFRICA R&D Facility @eoafricard1 ·
    8 Mar

    πŸ“’... and the winners are...

    Following the evaluation by @EOAfricaRD1, @esa and @_AfricanUnion selection committee, 17 research projects were selected for funding from 11 African and 9 European countries. Congratulations to all the winners!! πŸŽ‰πŸ₯³
    https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/2023/03/

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    eoafricard1 EO AFRICA R&D Facility @eoafricard1 ·
    28 Feb

    ⚠️Only 1 month left before applications deadline : African Research Fellowships. With this call @ESA offers 1y #fellowships to 4 #African #researchers to work at ESA-ESRIN premises in Frascati (Rome, Italy) in collaboration with ESA’s scientists. πŸŒπŸ›°οΈ
    https://eo4society.esa.int/2022/12/02/arf2023/

    EO AFRICA R&D Facility @EOAfricaRD1

    πŸ“’We are pleased to announce the 2023 @_AfricanUnion - @esa Research Fellowship Call! πŸ‘
    This opportunity is for 4 new African Researchers to work 1y at @ESA ESRIN in synergy with ESA scientists πŸ€“πŸ›°οΈπŸ—ΊοΈπŸŒ

    Deadline for applications πŸ—“οΈ 31 March 2023
    https://eo4society.esa.int/2022/12/02/arf2023/

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    eoafricard1 EO AFRICA R&D Facility @eoafricard1 ·
    22 Feb

    New @EOAfricaRD1 #online course: explore the potential of #satellite #EO data temporal (#hypertemporal) dimension for monitoring #vegetation dynamics & #landcover/#landuse changes (anomaly/trend analysis)πŸ›°οΈπŸŒ±πŸŒ³β˜˜οΈ

    Apply before March 20 πŸ—“οΈ https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/on-line-courses/monitoring-vegetation-dynamics-from-space/
    @EO_OPEN_SCIENCE

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    eoafricard1 EO AFRICA R&D Facility @eoafricard1 ·
    21 Feb

    Did you miss the @EOAfricaRD1 webinar "Global flood monitoring and Surface Soil Moisture anomalies" by Prof Wolfgang Wagner @tu_wien?

    You can find the recording at:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1W9Mv9OHKA

    #soilmoisture #mircrowaveremotesensing #EO #floods #Africa

    @EO_OPEN_SCIENCE

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    12 Feb

    🚨Last chance to register for the @EOAfricaRD1 webinar: Global flood monitoring and Surface Soil Moisture anomalies
    https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/webinars/#webinar9

    EO AFRICA R&D Facility @EOAfricaRD1

    Join Prof #WolfgangWagner @tu_wien for the upcoming @EOAfricaRD1 #webinar "Global #flood monitoring and Surface #SoilMoisture anomalies".
    Mind the date πŸ—“οΈ Feb 14 !
    Research topics relevant for #Africa will be discussed 🌍. Register at: https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/webinars/#webinar9

    @EO_OPEN_SCIENCE

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    eoafricard1 EO AFRICA R&D Facility @eoafricard1 ·
    8 Feb

    Did you miss the @EOAfricaRD1 #webinar "fPAR as a Proxy for Yield Estimation/Forecasting"...?
    Check the recording in our YouTube channel:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCBuxRfdF-U

    @EO_OPEN_SCIENCE

    EO AFRICA R&D Facility @EOAfricaRD1

    🚨Last chance to register for the @EOAfricaRD1 #webinar: "fPAR as a Proxy for Yield Estimation/Forecasting"

    ttps://utwente-nl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CawwLU4RS4SEUwbB62EwuQ

    #yield #cropforcasting #eo #fPAR #bigleave https://twitter.com/EOAfricaRD1/status/1613244965085143059

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    eoafricard1 EO AFRICA R&D Facility @eoafricard1 ·
    7 Feb

    πŸ“’We are pleased to announce the 2023 @_AfricanUnion - @esa Research Fellowship Call! πŸ‘
    This opportunity is for 4 new African Researchers to work 1y at @ESA ESRIN in synergy with ESA scientists πŸ€“πŸ›°οΈπŸ—ΊοΈπŸŒ

    Deadline for applications πŸ—“οΈ 31 March 2023
    https://eo4society.esa.int/2022/12/02/arf2023/

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

    Date: CANCELED CRASTE-LF, Rabat, Morocco Introduction to Cloud Computing and its usage for Earth Observation (EO) data analyses. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/face-to-face-courses/cloud-computing-and-algorithms-for-eo-analyses/
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