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Agriculture Remote Sensing Webinar: Crop Mapping using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Optical Remote Sensing

April 4 - April 11

Monitoring crop growth is important for assessing food production, enabling optimal use of the landscape, and contributing to agricultural policy. Remote sensing methods based on optical and/or radar sensors have become an important means of extracting information related to crops. Optical data is related to the chemical properties of the vegetation, while radar data is …

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EO AFRICA F2F Training #6: Vegetation and Drought Monitoring from Space

January 23 - January 27
CRASTE-LF, Sis EMI, Av. Ibn Sina
Rabat, 10090 Morocco

The 6th F2F course of the EO AFRICA R&D Facility will take place in Rabat, Morocco at CRASTE-LF (African Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology in French Language). This course will provide participants with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge on vegetation and drought monitoring based on satellite EO data. It will focus both …

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IMPALA

Prime company: KNMI (NL)

Methane is among the most important greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere, causing rapid global warming. A recent study indicates that tropical methane emissions explain a large fraction of the global atmospheric methane growth (Feng et al., 2022). The relatively short lifetime of methane of about a decade makes methane emissions an attractive target of …

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EO Africa Invitations to Tender Opportunities Scientists Sponsorship

African Research Fellowships Call 2023

INTRODUCTION The African Research Fellowship (ARF) program, jointly carried by ESA with the African Union Commission, was successfully initiated in 2021 with two African fellows selected to carry out their research in ESA in 2022. It aims at empowering African Researchers (PhD or Master degree with extensive research experience) to carry out Earth Observation (EO) …

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EO AFRICA Food Security and Safety in Africa – AFRI4Cast

Prime company: AGROAPPS PC (GR)

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 …

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EO AFRIca multi-scale SMART agricultural water management – AFRI-SMART

Prime company: POLITECNICO DI MILANO (IT)

The project investigates how sustainable agriculture can be achieved in the Africa continent under drought conditions, by co-developing innovative scientific EO-based and state-of-the-art modelling solutions together with African experts increasing their knowledge and capacity, developing an operative platform and database for results visualization and sharing with the end-users.

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