17th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series
- Advances in EO Cloud Computing: openEO and GEE | Wednesday, 30 October 2024 14:00 CET (UTC+1) | Online webinar with live-chat | This webinar introduces cloud computing and its use in analysing and processing Earth Observation (EO) data. The focus will be on openEO on Google Earth Engine (GEE) and, with an overview of recent developments on both platforms. It will also explain the topic of interactive computing through JupyterLab.
African Research Fellowships: Call 2024/2025
We are pleased to announce the 2024-2025 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/2024/09/23/african-research-fellowships-call-2024-2025/
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- Face to Face course on Cloud-based EO image analysis for monitoring surface water dynamics | October 21 – 25, 2024 | Maseru, Lesotho | Introduction to cloud-based image analysis techniques for monitoring surface water dynamics with use of EO data. It will cover general concepts of radar and optical remote sensing, how those instruments interact with water surface and which information they can provide.
16th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series
- Flood extent assessment in East Africa with Sentinel-2 data | Wednesday, 11 September 2024 15:00 CEST (GMT+2) | Online webinar with live-chat | In this webinar we’ll utilize commonly used methods to assess the extent of selected flooded area in East Africa. Presented techniques will include calculation of water radiometric indices from optical Sentinel-2 bands (e.g. MNDWI, NDWI2, SWM) to assess the water extent and change detection in selected area.
EO AFRICA R&D Facility Advisory Board
The following four experts from prestigious African organizations have accepted our invitation to become members of the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Advisory Board. They will have a major role in safeguarding the quality and scope of our activities and ensure
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- Principles of and advances in Earth Observation | September 16 – October 11, 2024 | Online course with live-chat | This online course equips participants with fundamental knowledge in Earth Observation (EO) to enhance their understanding and utilization of EO data. The course primarily focuses on optical data, exploring their advantages and limitations. Additionally, active remote sensing concepts are introduced.
EO AFRICA R&D Facility – The Second Phase
Exciting opportunities for more collaboration! The EO AFRICA R&D Facility Consortium is delighted to announce that, after a positive evaluation of the first phase (2021-2024), the European Space Agency has granted the Facility an extension of 3 years, allowing us
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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 more15th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel
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 morePublishing opportunity
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
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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 more15th 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.
14th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel
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
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- 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.
13th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel
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
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- Face to Face course on Parcel-based Crop Monitoring from Space | Date: 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.
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.
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.
Activities EO AFRICA R&D – October 2023
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 more12th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel
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
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