Events/News

19th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series

  • Introduction to PolInSAR for agriculture monitoring and mapping | Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 14:00 CET (UTC + 1) | Online webinar with live-chat | This webinar introduces the fundamentals of PolInSAR technology and its possible applications in agriculture monitoring based on selected case studies in Africa. We will explore PolInSAR capabilities in estimating vegetation height and biomass, tracking phenological stages, and improving precision farming practices. Additionally, we will present tools available for accessing PolInSAR data, present and future satellite missions to provide fully polarimetric data and showcase selected case studies focused on agriculture.
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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.
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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. Specifically, the webinar will delve into experiences of producing the 100m Copernicus Global Land Cover dataset (available for 2015–2019), the European Space Agency (ESA) WorldCover Project, which has further advanced land cover monitoring by producing 10m resolution global land cover maps, and the new Copernicus Land Cover and Tropical Forest Monitoring Service (LCFM), designed to provide dynamic, high-resolution datasets on the status and changes of global land cover and pan-tropical forests.
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2nd 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 | March 10 – 14, 2025 | Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire | 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.
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17th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series

  • Advances in EO Cloud Computing: OpenEO | Wednesday, 4 December 2024, 14:00 CET (UTC+1) | Online webinar with live-chat | This webinar explores the growing role of cloud computing in analyzing and processing Earth Observation (EO) data, with a primary focus on OpenEO. OpenEO is a relatively new and innovative initiative to connect to EO cloud back-ends in a simple and unified way.
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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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1st on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Second Phase Face to Face Courses

  • 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.
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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.
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