Announcements

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

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 will discuss an approach for integrating Sentinel-2 (optical) and Sentinel-1 (SAR) water maps that was inspired by the Copernicus Global Flood Monitoring service, which combines flood likelihood maps from different SAR algorithms into an ensemble flood product.
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5th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Second Phase Face to Face Courses

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

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

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

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 4th 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.

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