| EO AFRICA – Water Resources Management (WRM) | The project plans to estimate crop water stress and evapotranspiration, exploiting ECOSTRESS and PRISMA data by experimental EO analysis techniques. Expected outcome: an open source innovative model will be developed to assess actual crop [...] | Planetek Italia (IT) | Applications | crop, EO Africa, Explorer, water resources | The project plans to estimate crop water stress and evapotranspiration, exploiting ECOSTRESS and PRISMA data by experimental EO analysis techniques. Expected outcome: an open source innovative model will be developed to assess actual crop evapotranspiration (ETa) using EO-derived crop coefficient (Kc) and crop water stress index (CWSI). The solution will be integrated into a web platform as a Decision Support System (DSS) to improve irrigation water management. Demonstration test site: large cultivated area (13.800 ha) located in northern Egypt. |
| EO AFRICA Earth Observation system to Manage Africa’s food systems by Joint-knowledge of crop production and Irrigation digitization – EO-MAJI | Primary objective of this project is to utilize the unique spatial, spectral and temporal characteristics of ECOSTRESS thermal sensor and PRISMA hyperspectral sensor to develop novel methods addressing the growing challenges affecting the nexus [...] | AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE (ES) | Applications | africa, agriculture, crops and yields, EO Africa, Explorer, Food Security, hyperspectral, water cycle and hydrology | Primary objective of this project is to utilize the unique spatial, spectral and temporal characteristics of ECOSTRESS thermal sensor and PRISMA hyperspectral sensor to develop novel methods addressing the growing challenges affecting the nexus of water resource management and food security in Africa. Irrigated agriculture is right in the centre of those two domains and the project monitors irrigation schemes with the aim of inventorying existing perimeters and improving their performance, enhancing the management of water licensing and permits and laying ground for sustainable development of irrigated agriculture in Africa. This will be achieved through development and application of state-of-the-art evapotranspiration modelling making full use of ECOSTRESS and PRISMA data. |
| EO AfRIca ExplorerS – ARIES | Within “ARIES” experimental EO analysis techniques will be developed and validated, addressing water resources management and food security matters. Those techniques,algorithms and prototype solutions will leverage a new generation of [...] | VISTA GEOWISSENSCHAFTLICHE FERNERKUNDUNG GMBH (DE) | Applications | africa, agriculture, agriculture science cluster, applications, EO Africa, Explorer, Food Security, hyperspectral, Sentinel-2, Sentinel-3, water cycle and hydrology | Within “ARIES” experimental EO analysis techniques will be developed and validated, addressing water resources management and food security matters. Those techniques,algorithms and prototype solutions will leverage a new generation of upcoming operational EO data: thermal and hyperspectral. In addition to established EO resources, especially Copernicus driven Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3, the intended ECOSTRESS and PRISMA data will deliver urgently needed new insights in status and processes in water resources management and food security issues. |
| EO AFRICA Food Security and Safety in Africa – AFRI4Cast | Afri4Cast project will develop a modeling platform making full exploitation of satellite remote sensing of PRISMA and ECOSTRESS sensors for climate change impact analyses on agriculture and making it available to African stakeholders for shaping [...] | AGROAPPS PC (GR) | Applications | africa, agriculture, agriculture science cluster, crops and yields, EO Africa, Explorer, Food Security, hyperspectral | Afri4Cast project will develop a modeling platform making full exploitation of satellite remote sensing of PRISMA and ECOSTRESS sensors for climate change impact analyses on agriculture and making it available to African stakeholders for shaping future agricultural policies in the African Continent.
Afri4Cast will provide national-, regional-, parcel-, pixel-specific in season production estimates, mycotoxin formation risk and disease outbreak probability. Apart from the in-season yield forecast production line, AFRI4CAst will execute seasonal and long-term model simulations for multiannual yield predictions and mycotoxigenic fungi contamination risk under various climate scenarios at a coarse spatial scale. |
| EO AFRICA HyRELIEF: Enhancing ECOSTRESS drought monitoring with hyperspectral narrowbands | HyRELIEF will exploit hyperspectral narrowbands (HNBs) captured by Hyperspectral Precursor and Application Mission (PRISMA) and employ a co-production approach with knowledge users to increase the reliability and usability of ECOSTRESS ET and [...] | UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE (NL) | Applications | africa, EO Africa, Explorer, Food Security, hyperspectral, water cycle and hydrology | HyRELIEF will exploit hyperspectral narrowbands (HNBs) captured by Hyperspectral Precursor and Application Mission (PRISMA) and employ a co-production approach with knowledge users to increase the reliability and usability of ECOSTRESS ET and ESI for drought monitoring in Kenya. |
| EO AFRICA PRISMA 4 AFRICA | This project aims to exploit new opportunities offered by the EO technological advances, in order to favour the development of EO local experts in Africa, by providing geospatial information and natural resources mapping/monitoring. Policy [...] | E-GEOS (IT) | Applications | africa, crops and yields, EO Africa, Explorer, hyperspectral | This project aims to exploit new opportunities offered by the EO technological advances, in order to favour the development of EO local experts in Africa, by providing geospatial information and natural resources mapping/monitoring. Policy makers and relevant regional stakeholders (”Early Adopters”) will take a direct advantage on the availability of EO products describing the status of the cultivar within their agricultural areas of interest. |
