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Living Planet Symposium 2022

May 23, 2022 - May 27, 2022
World Conference Center, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 2
Bonn, 53113 Germany

This symposium focuses on how Earth observation contributes to science and society, and how disruptive technologies and actors are changing the traditional Earth observation landscape, which is also creating new opportunities for public and private sector interactions. It has 5 main objectives: UNDERSTAND EARTH SYSTEMS Prove how satellite data and open science contribute to our …

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EO Africa

EO AFRICA R&D Research Projects – Awarded Proposals (First Call)

In the framework of the ESA EO AFRICA initiative, the R&D Facility in collaboration with European Space Agency (ESA) and the African Union Commission (AUC), launched at the end of 2021 a call for research proposals to support African-European collaborative efforts to develop innovative, open-source EO algorithms and applications adapted to African solutions for African …

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EO Africa

24 May is Africa day at LPS22!

Join us during LPS22 in Bonn to learn about EO AFRICA and the latest research results in Africa. LPS22 is the key event in Earth Observation, organised every 3 years by ESA and gathering more than 3000 participants from any part of the world. During the 5-days event, the state of the art of scientific …

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EO Africa F2F Training #2: Earth Observations for Water Resources Assessment and Monitoring

May 15, 2022 - May 19, 2022

The second face to face (F2F) course of the EO AFRICA R&D Facility will take place in Accra, Ghana, immediately after the United Nations/Ghana 5th International Conference on the Use of Space Technologies for Water Resources Management. Deadline for applications: April 25th, 2022 In this course, participants will get an introduction to cloud-based image analysis techniques …

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3rd edition of the DLR/ESA open PolInSAR training course

May 2, 2022 - July 8, 2022

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 10 sessions over 10 weeks, with lectures and tutorials ranging from …

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EO Africa Online Training #3: Water and Energy Budgets from Space

April 18, 2022 - May 13, 2022

3rd EO AFRICA R&D Facility Online Course Deadline for applications: April 1, 2022 Introduction to the course: Satellite Earth observation, hydro-meteorological modelling and data assimilation provide a powerful combination for quantifying hydroclimatic variables to effectively address water management issues in this online course, an introduction will be given to the theory and techniques to observe the …

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Capacity building EO Africa

Replay the Webinar on Evapotranspiration from Space

The 4th Webinar on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available here. The webinar is devoted to evapotranspiration (ET) monitoring with Earth Observation (EO) satellites and it is structured as follows: During the first 20 minutes, the concept of ET and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Penman (1948) – Monteith (1965) …

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EO Africa Webinar #4: Evapotranspiration from Space

March 25, 2022 @ 14:00 - 15:00 UTC+2

4th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series This webinar is devoted to evapotranspiration (ET) monitoring with Earth Observation (EO) satellites. The webinar is going to have four parts: During the first 20 minutes, the concept of ET and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Penman (1948) – Monteith (1965) approach to its modelling will …

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