As part of the series of face to face events linked to our Space Academy, Michael Marshall and Kees de Bie (ITC) successfully delivered the course “Monitoring of Agroecosystems from Space” on October 18-22 in Kigali, Rwanda as a preamble

The second week of October, Mahdi Farnaghi presented our Innovation Lab – and related support & training- during the workshop “Copernicus data access and use in Africa”. The objective of the workshop was to collect African institutions views on the

On the invitation of the Netherlands Space Office, NSO, Zoltán Vekerdy presented the Facility during the “Space for food security” conference in Utrecht, the Netherlands. This event served as an inspirational closure of the Geodata for Agriculture (G4AW) program of

ESA EO AFRICA R&D Facility, in collaboration with the African Union Commission (AUC) announce: Call for Research Proposals 2022-2023 Related to the themes EO for managing water scarcity and safeguarding food security in Africa EO AFRICA R&D Facility is the

Announcing the implementation of the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Forum: We have recently implemented the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Forum as an online discussion board where people from the EO AFRICA community can ask questions, share their experiences, and discuss

The EO AFRICA Training Modules are now also available at the GMES & Africa Digital Learning Platform: The GMES & Africa Programme is announcing new modules developed by the EO-AFRICA Research and Development Facility. These courses are self-paced (no facilitator).

The 6th Webinar on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel: Hyper-Temporal Mapping of Agro-Ecological Systems This webinar introduces participants with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge to map agro-ecological systems at region

The 5th Webinar on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel: Introduction to Precipitation from Space This webinar introduces rainfall observations obtained from satellites using the visible, thermal infrared and microwave parts of

The 15 selected African-European tandems of the EO AFRICA R&D research projects had the opportunity to present their proposals during the recent ESA Living Planet Symposium (May 23-27) in Bonn, Germany. Topics such as droughts and floods monitoring, crop yield

The first actual Face to Face course of the EO AFRICA R&D Facility was successfully delivered from May 15 – 19, 2022 in Accra, Ghana. In this occasion, 21 participants from 5 countries learnt and practiced cloud computing-based techniques for water resources assessment using Earth observations and the Innovation Lab.