In the framework of the ESA EO AFRICA initiative, the R&D Facility in collaboration with European Space Agency (ESA) and the African Union Commission (AUC), launched at the end of 2021 a call for research proposals to support African-European collaborative efforts to develop innovative, open-source EO algorithms and applications adapted to African solutions for African …
Join us during LPS22 in Bonn to learn about EO AFRICA and the latest research results in Africa. LPS22 is the key event in Earth Observation, organised every 3 years by ESA and gathering more than 3000 participants from any part of the world. During the 5-days event, the state of the art of scientific …
The 4th Webinar on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available here. The webinar is devoted to evapotranspiration (ET) monitoring with Earth Observation (EO) satellites and it is structured as follows: During the first 20 minutes, the concept of ET and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Penman (1948) – Monteith (1965) …
The EO Africa R&D Facility is organizing from February 7 to 11 2022 a 5-day online training course (5 hours per day) on the Advances in Earth Observation. Due to restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the course will be held fully in an online mode and participants will be able to connect to all …
We are pleased to announce that in collaboration with the AUC, the ESA EO AFRICA R&D Facility has launched a call for research proposals to support African–European collaborative efforts to develop innovative, open-source EO algorithms and applications adapted to African solutions to African challenges by leveraging cutting-edge cloud-based data access and computing infrastructure. 15 research …
ESA is pleased to invite you to join the EO AFRICA community, and future ESA Africa-related activities as a research partner and collaborator. Being part of such community will allow us to timely inform you about the different research calls, innovation collaborations and training opportunities. Please confirm your interest and willingness to join the network …
INTRODUCTION The African Research Fellowship (ARF) Coordinated by ESA aims at empowering African Researchers (PhD or Master degree with extensive research experience) to carry out Earth Observation (EO) R&D activities relevant for the EO AFRICA Initiative. The African Research Fellows shall maximise the use of EO data in synergy with in-situ and state-of-the-art modelling approaches, …
On March 1st it was held the Kick Off meeting of the EO Africa R&D Facility, which will be led by the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente. The overarching goal of the EO AFRICA RD Facility is to foster an African-European RD collaboration enabling an active research community and …
In October 2020 ESA contributed to a training event on EO for seasonal agriculture monitoring in North Africa. The virtual training was organised by the African Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in French Language (CRASTE-LF), in collaboration with OSS North Africa Consortium and GMES&AFRICA partners. More than 20 experts from 8 different …
TIGER was launched by ESA in 2002 as a direct response to a call for action in Africa stressed by the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). The objective of the initiative was to assist African countries to overcome problems faced in the collection, analysis and use of water related geo-information by exploiting the …
