Events/News – EO AFRICA

23rd on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series

Scientific advances on the use of ASCAT soil moisture observations for rainfall and drought monitoring | Wednesday, 23 September 2026, 15:00 – 16:30 CEST (GMT+2) | Online webinar with live-chat | This webinar presents the ASCAT soil moisture data services provided by the EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility in Support of Operational Hydrology and Water Management (H-SAF) and the Copernicus Land Monitoring Services. Recent studies that have used these data to monitor extreme rainfall and drought conditions in Africa, will be shown.

9th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Second Phase Face to Face Courses

Face-to-Face course on Crop and Rangeland Monitoring from Space | October 20 – 24, 2026 | Harare, Zimbabwe | A 5-day training course (6 hours per day), with theoretical lectures and hands-on exercises performed in a cloud-computing environment.

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

Flood Monitoring using EO | September 14 – October 16, 2026 | Online course with live-chat | Flooding is one of the most frequent and devastating natural hazards affecting African countries, with significant impacts on infrastructure, agriculture, livelihoods, and ecosystems. The increasing availability of EO data and cloud-based processing platforms, provides unprecedented opportunities to monitor, forecast, and analyse flood events.

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

Satellite remote sensing of air quality | May 25 – June 19, 2026 | Online course with live-chat | The topic of this course is Atmospheric composition, processing and applications. The course focuses on detection of the composition of the lower atmosphere from space: methods, data, tools and applications.

8th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Second Phase Face to Face Courses

Face-to-Face course on Modern Tools for River Monitoring | May 18 – 22, 2026 | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | A 5-day training course (6-8 hours per day), combining theoretical lectures and hands-on exercises to enhance your knowledge of modern tools for river monitoring.

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

Food Security Studies using EO | March 23 – April 17, 2026 | Online course with live-chat | This course will explore the potential of monitoring agricultural systems in near-real time and assessing food security conditions across scales, from local production systems to national and regional contexts.

EO AFRICA R&D Forum 2026 – Achievement and Future Pathways

EO AFRICA R&D FORUM 2026 – Achievement and Future Pathways 25–27 May 2026 | University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania An ESA-funded initiative, this forum highlights cutting-edge research and innovation within Africa’s food-water nexus, showcasing how Earth Observation supports sustainable

EO AFRICA R&D Facility in 2025: A Year of Training, Research, and Community building

Following the format established in since 2021, throughout 2025 the ESA-funded EO AFRICA R&D Facility played a key role in strengthening the knowledge and skills of African colleagues in Earth Observation (EO) and in fostering collaboration between African and European researchers.

7th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Second Phase Face to Face Courses

Face-to-Face course on SAR Polarimetry and Interferometry | March 16 – 20, 2026 | Kampala, Uganda | A 5-day training course (6 hours per day), combining theoretical lectures and hands-on exercises to enhance your knowledge of radar polarimetry and interferometry.

22nd on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel

The 22nd Webinar on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel: Combining Optical and SAR Data for Mapping Water Bodies and Floods This webinar discusses an approach for integrating Sentinel-2 (optical) and Sentinel-1

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

Face-to-Face course on Earth Observation for Marine and Coastal Resource Applications | December 14 – 18, 2025 | Alexandria, Egypt | A 5-day training course (6 hours per day), combining theoretical lectures and hands-on exercises to enhance your understanding and practical skills in using satellite data for marine resources monitoring.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

Call to contribute to advancing urban climate research in Africa

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).

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

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

20th 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 | 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.