EO4SD Climate Resilience stakeholder & capacity building workshop

One day before the One Planet Summit in Nairobi: Africa’s Pledge, stakeholders from international finance institutions (IFIs) and their client states are invited to a workshop focused on demonstrating the value of EO data to climate-resilient development.

Objectives of the event are:

• providing valuable insights into how IFIs and their client states can use Earth observation data to support climate-resilient development;
• discussing stakeholder needs and requirements, especially with regards to projects on the African continent;
• providing applicable and useful information about Copernicus Sentinel data and services, which offers full, free and open access;
• showcasing the proposed services of the EO4SD Climate Resilience cluster and how they can be used (e.g. drought monitoring, wetland monitoring, ecosystem evaluation, flooding, soil erosion, etc.);
• offering a training session about the EO4SD Climate Resilience platform, including downloading data, visualizing it, and creating of customized products (e.g. water quality indexes, vegetation indexes, etc.).