Events

EO for Africa Symposium 2024

2024-04-22 The EO AFRICA R&D Facility is glad to inform that the deadline to submit abstracts for the first ESA EO 4 for Africa Symposium has been extended to the 30 of April 2024. [Read more...]

15th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel

2024-01-17 The 15th Webinar on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel: Accessing cloud services using openEO and additional data processing capabilities offered by ILWISPy The EO Africa program has been making use of [Read more...]

Publishing opportunity

2024-01-08 For publishing Africa-oriented EO research results, we are editing a special issue of the International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation: African EO Challenges and Solutions in Water Scarcity and Food Security – Mapping the Environment We encourage our [Read more...]

New research gap survey

2023-12-20 To support the development of the roadmap of the EO AFRICA R&D Facility for 2024-2026 We launched a questionnaire in 2021, which helped define the user needs of the African EO community. Our scientific field is developing very quickly, so [Read more...]

14th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel

2023-12-15 The 14th Webinar on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel: Crop mapping in Zankalon, Egypt using different ML classifiers in Python Accurate information about agriculture and crops is essential for informed decision-making [Read more...]

13th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel

2023-12-06 The 13th Webinar on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel: Parcel-based crop monitoring from space The ever-increasing spatial resolution offered by the newest generation of satellite sensors allows us to monitor agricultural [Read more...]

Activities EO AFRICA R&D – October 2023

2023-11-07 October 2023 was a very busy month for the EO AFRICA R&D Facility. We delivered two face-to-face courses in parallel in Kigali and Dar es Salaam as part of our Capacity Development program through the EO AFRICA Space Academy. Mahdi [Read more...]

12th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel

2023-09-29 The 12th Webinar on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel: Use of Remote Sensing to Insure against the Peril Drought The webinar provides insights concerning the developed EO-based insurance model that utilizes [Read more...]

Open Science is an Integral Part of the EO AFRICA R&D Facility’s Philosophy

2023-07-27 An interesting article in which Dr. Serkan Girgin from the EO AFRICA R&D Consortium, together with Dr. Marloes Penning de Vries, PI of one of our Research Projects, elaborate on the role of Open Science as an integral part of [Read more...]

11th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel

2023-07-24 The 11th Webinar on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel: Surface Soil Moisture products at continental scale The webinar gives an overview of high-resolution (1 km) satellite soil moisture data sets available [Read more...]

15th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series

Accessing cloud services using openEO and additional data processing capabilities offered by ILWISPy

Tuesday, 9 January, 2024, 11:00 CET (GMT+1) Online webinar with live-chat This webinar starts with the use of the Innovation Lab in conjunction with openEO / ILWISPy to access and process also data obtained from other cloud based data repositories. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/webinars/#webinar15

10th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Online Courses

The course is open for applicants from AFRICA only

Surface Flood Modelling Supported by Cloud-Based RS GIS

January 29 – February 23, 2024 Online course with live-chat Optical imagery supports a more natural identification of water bodies and digital elevation models add to the identification of potential flood areas. This course will review all these concepts and add a foundational but complete layer on surface water modelling using a full 2D version of HECRAS free software. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/on-line-courses/surface-flood-modelling-supported-by-cloud-based-rs-gis/

Registration is open for Face to Face course on Parcel-based Crop Monitoring from Space

The course is open for applicants from AFRICA only!

Face to Face course on Parcel-based Crop Monitoring from Space

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. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/face-to-face-courses/face-to-face-course-on-parcel-based-crop-monitoring-from-space/

14th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series

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. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/webinars/#webinar14

13th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series

Parcel-based crop monitoring from space

Wednesday, 29 November, 2023, 14:00 CET (GMT+1) Online webinar with live-chat This webinar will provide insights into the possibilities, limitations and remaining challenges related to high-resolution crop monitoring. Together we will explore which information can be derived from these satellite observations, including parcel extent, crop type, phenology, biomass production and crop stress. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/webinars/#webinar13

Registration is open for Face to Face course on Agricultural Drought Monitoring from Space

The course is open for applicants from AFRICA only!

Face to Face course on Agricultural Drought Monitoring from Space

November 6 – 9, 2023 Cape Town, South Africa In this course, participants will get an introduction on how to use satellite imagery for the purpose of agricultural drought monitoring at various spatial scales, ranging from continental to field scale. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/face-to-face-courses/face-to-face-course-on-agricultural-drought-monitoring-from-space/

Registration is open for Face to Face course on Assessing vegetation dynamics from space with cloud-based EO analyses

The course is open for applicants from AFRICA only!

Face to Face course on Assessing vegetation dynamics from space with cloud-based EO analyses

November 19 – 23, 2023 Cairo, Egypt In this course, participants will get an introduction to cloud-based techniques for assessing vegetation dynamics with Earth Observation data. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/face-to-face-courses/face-to-face-course-on-assessing-vegetation-dynamics-from-space-with-cloud-based-eo-analyses/

12th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series

Use of Remote Sensing to Insure against the Peril Drought

September 19, 2023, 14:00 CET Online webinar with live-chat The webinar will provide insights concerning the developed EO-based insurance model that utilizes NDVI-imagery to quantitatively assess occurring agronomic droughts. As a business model, since 2018, the Vegetation Index Crop Insurance (VICI) scheme is successfully in use by various Ethiopian organizations. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/webinars/#webinar12

Registration is open for Face to Face course on Soil Moisture and Inland Water Monitoring with Satellite Radar

The course is open for applicants from AFRICA only!

Face to Face course on Soil Moisture and Inland Water Monitoring with Satellite Radar

October 16 – 20, 2023 University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania This course is covering the general concepts of radar remote sensing, how radar/microwaves interact with soil and vegetation, soil moisture retrieval with satellite radar, and the concept of zenith radar altimetry. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/face-to-face-courses/face-to-face-course-on-soil-moisture-and-inland-water-monitoring-with-satellite-radar/

9th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Online Courses

The course is open for applicants from AFRICA only

Crop Monitoring and Yield Estimation from Space

September 4 – 29, 2023 Online course with live-chat The ever-increasing spatial resolution offered by the newest generation of satellite sensors allow us to monitor agricultural production at the scale of an individual parcel and to quantitatively estimate or predict productivity. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/on-line-courses/crop-monitoring-and-yield-estimation-from-space/

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 “big leaf” approach to light-use efficiency. Big leaf models assume canopies are homogenous and the response of the canopy to light is linear.

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.

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 “space & time” now lets us study and work on issues that earlier remained “out-of-reach” and remained “unanswered”.

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 training 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.