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8th edition of the DLR/ESA open PolinSAR training course 2024

November 4, 2024 - February 7, 2025

This PolInSAR course is an online, hands-on course that aims to develop an understanding of the information content of multi-parameter SAR data in an interactive way, without assuming any prior/background knowledge – though some knowledge in Python programming is welcome. It is organised around 11 sessions over 11 weeks, with lectures and tutorials ranging from SAR image formation up …

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EO for Africa Symposium 2024

September 23, 2024 @ 09:00 - September 26, 2024 @ 13:00 UTC+2
ESA-ESRIN, Largo Galileo Galilei, 1
Frascati, RM 00044 Italy

Background ESA is pleased to announce the organization of the 2024 EO for Africa Symposium in partnership with the African Union Commission (AUC), African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE), the European Commission (EC), the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The …

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EO Africa Invitations to Tender Scientists Sponsorship

African Research Fellowships: Call 2024/2025

January’25 update: following an extensive review of the received applications, the 4 selected candidates have been informed about acceptance.   INTRODUCTION The African Research Fellowship (ARF) program, jointly carried by ESA with the African Union Commission, was successfully initiated in 2021 with six African Fellows having completed their research at ESA. The program aims to …

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EO AFRICA Webinar: Flood extent assessment in East Africa with Sentinel-2 data

September 11, 2024 @ 15:00 - 16:30 UTC+2

A few months ago, East Africa faced the consequences of weeks of heavy rains and subsequent flooding, attributed in part to the El Niño weather phenomenon, impacting Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Somalia. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the flooding has devastated communities, with over 750,000 …

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Capacity building EO Africa Opportunities R&D Training and Education

Two new calls launched for the Africa research community

Following the kick-off with ESA of the second phase of activities to be carried by the EO AFRICA (African Framework for Research, Innovation, Communities and Applications) R&D Facility, two new calls have just been opened aiming to sustain and strengthen an active African research community, by promoting creative innovation processes for the continuous development of …

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Coastal Blue Carbon from Space Forum

May 14, 2024 - May 17, 2024
International Space Science Institute (ISSI), Hallerstrasse 6
Bern, Switzerland

The European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are organizing a Coastal Blue Carbon from Space Forum, which will take place at the International Space Science Institute (ISSI, Bern, Switzerland), on 14-17 May 2024. Coastal Blue Carbon describes the carbon stored in vegetated coastal and marine ecosystems, mostly by seagrasses, mangroves, …

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EO AFRICA Webinar: Accessing cloud services using OpenEO and additional data processing capabilities offered by ILWISPy

January 9, 2024 @ 11:00 - 12:00 UTC+1

This webinar will demonstrate the use of the EO AFRICA Innovation Lab in conjunction with openEO / ILWISPy to access and process also data obtained from other cloud based data repositories. Jupyter Notebooks will be deployed to show how to access and process data from cloud based services. The webinar will be executed under the …

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EO Africa Partnership

Last Days to Fill-in the Africa Research Gap Survey!

The EO AFRICA Research Facility has launched a revised version of the questionnaire about Africa Research gaps originally administered in 2021. The questionnaire aims to collect information from Africa-oriented EO specialists about the continent’s research challenges and gaps. Contribution of Africa-based researchers is highly welcome: please fill out the anonymous questionnaire (takes about 10-12 minutes) …

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