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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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EO AFRICA PRISMA 4 AFRICA

Prime company: E-GEOS (IT)

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 …

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EO AFRICA Integrated use of multisource remote sensing data for national scale Agricultural Drought Monitoring in Kenya (ADM-Kenya)

Prime company: Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) (DE)

ADM Kenya project aims to co-develop solutions for monitoring crop condition and cropping systems with EO time-series observations to derive evidence-based quantitative vegetation condition estimates with high spatial and temporal resolution. We will develop novel EO-based solutions for drought monitoring at a national scale in Kenya. ADM Kenya will provide cloud-based processing algorithms that will …

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EO Africa National INcubators – ANIN

Prime company: GMV AEROSPACE AND DEFENCE, SA (ES)

The ANIN projects aims to: Develop and validate, together with South African experts, innovative EO-based solutions addressing drought monitoring at national scale Involve South African end-user entities throughout the project and facilitate integration of the developed solutions into their current operational working practices demonstrating the achieved benefits Fully exploit the capacity offered by ESA EO …

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EO AFRICA Earth Observation system to Manage Africa’s food systems by Joint-knowledge of crop production and Irrigation digitization – EO-MAJI

Prime company: AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE (ES)

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 …

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4th edition of the DLR/ESA open PolInSAR training course

November 21, 2022 - February 17, 2023

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 AFRICA F2F Training #5: Cloud based EO analyses for Water and Food Security

November 7, 2022 - November 11, 2022

The 5th F2F course of the EO AFRICA R&D Facility will take place in Nairobi, Kenya in close collaboration with the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources or Development (RCMRD). In this course, participants will get an introduction to cloud-based image analysis techniques for Water and Food Security. The training includes face-to-face lecturing and reading …

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EO Africa F2F Training #4: Mapping and Performance Monitoring of Agroecosystems from Space

October 18, 2022 - October 22, 2022

The 4th F2F course of the EO AFRICA R&D Facility will take place in Kigali, Rwanda in close collaboration with the African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE) 2022. The course will provide participants with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge for getting started on monitoring agroecosystems (croplands + rangelands) with satellite EO …

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