Advisory Board Announcement
We are pleased to announce that Professor Abel Ramoelo, Executive Director of Earth Observation at the South African National Space Agency (SANSA), has joined our Advisory Board.
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21st on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series
- 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.
5th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Second Phase Online Courses
- PolInSAR Processing and Applications | May 26 – June 20, 2025 | Online course with live-chat | This online course equips participants with a fundamental knowledge of PolInSAR processing and application concepts. During the course participants will refresh their knowledge of principles and properties of SAR remote sensing and SAR images interpretation.
4th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Second Phase Online Courses
- High-resolution crop monitoring for food security using EO | April 14 – May 9, 2025 | Online course with live-chat | The ever-increasing spatial resolution offered by the newest generation of satellite sensors allow us to monitor crops at the scale of individual parcels and to quantitatively estimate or predict agricultural production (area × yield) and water-use for applications in food security analysis.
4th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Second Phase Face to Face Courses
- Face to Face course on Agricultural Monitoring from Space | April 7 – 11, 2025 | Abuja, Nigeria | A 5-day course (6h per day), including theoretical lectures and hands-on exercises to increase your understanding and skills related to the use of satellite data for agricultural monitoring.
18th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series
- Mapping Our Planet in High Resolution: Advancing Land Cover and Degradation Monitoring with Sentinel Data | Wednesday, 5 February 2025, 14:00 CET (UTC + 1) | Online webinar with live-chat | This webinar explores how these innovations, coupled with emerging datasets and services, are being utilized to monitor global land cover and land degradation, supporting sustainable development and environmental conservation.
Version 3 of the MOOC on Drought Assessment and Monitoring from Space
Version 3 of the MOOC on Drought Assessment and Monitoring from Space is launched. The Chapters on Cloud Computing and Earth Observations Advances have been updated. Some additional webinars are included in the MOOC v3. For the presentations, both French and English subtitles can be displayed over the presentation.
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3rd on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Second Phase Face to Face Courses
- Face to Face course on Satellite Atmospheric Data Validation and Application for Africa | April 14 – 18, 2025 | Ben Guerir, Morocco | A 5-day course (8h per day). The sessions will focus on the basics of atmospheric remote sensing, present the satellite data available and address the challenges to access them in Africa.
Winners of the call for African-led Training Material Design
ESA EO AFRICA R&D Facility, in collaboration with the African Union Commission (AUC), are pleased to announce that: As a result of the Call for proposals: African-led Training Material Design, five competitive African universities have been selected to develop university
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3rd on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Second Phase Online Courses
- EO for Marine and Coastal Resources Applications (EO4COAST) | January 27 – February 21, 2025 | Online course with live-chat | This online course aims to provide the participants with the competence to use Earth Observation (EO) data and products to leverage the management of marine and coastal aquatic resources and policymaking.