Upcoming Events
Dec 02
Advanced SAR Technologies & Applications 2024
 Training/Education
Jan 28
3rd ESA Carbon Science Cluster Meeting
 Workshops
Feb 03
ESA Digital Twin Earth Components: Open Science Meeting
 Workshops

View all events

Latest Tweets

Tag: africa

EO Africa Webinar Series on EO for Water and Food Security

Developed in the context of the EO Africa project, this series of webinars covers a variety of topics related to the use of Earth Observation (EO) for topics related to water and food security. The recorded webinars, which consist of theoretical background, applications examples and Q&A session, are available here below. Access specific videos (click …

Resource detail

MOOC: Drought Assessment and Monitoring from Space

Developed in the context of the EO Africa project, this free MOOC provides an introduction to the topic of droughts and details how they can be quantified, assessed and monitored from space. The contents include the role of cloud computing and the access to satellite data. No prior knowledge in Earth Observation (EO) is required. The …

Resource detail

EO Africa Webinar #3: Software Tools for Earth Observation Analyses

March 10, 2022 @ 14:00 - 15:00 UTC+2

3rd on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series This webinar provided an overview of existing open-source tools for processing data coming from different satellite missions with a main focus on Copernicus missions’ products. During the webinar participants gained familiarity with ESA SNAP software and its toolboxes. Then a short demonstration of QGIS plugins used in …

Event details

EO Africa Webinar #2: Access to Earth Observation

February 17, 2022 @ 14:00 - 15:30 UTC+2

2nd on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series The webinar aimed to present which Earth Observation datasets are accessible via Data and Information Access Services (DIAS) platforms, and demonstrate how such imagery can be queried, selected and downloaded. For this purpose, a direct-download solution from a data provider was demonstrated, followed by a free …

Event details

EO Africa F2F Training #1: Advances in Earth Observation

February 7, 2022 - February 11, 2022

The EO AFRICA R&D Facility  is organizing an online training course on the Advances in Earth Observation. The course was originally intended to be the first in a series of face-to-face (F2F) trainings. However, due to restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, this course will be held fully in an online mode and participants will …

Event details

EO Africa Webinar #1: Introduction to Cloud Computing for EO Analyses

February 3, 2022 @ 14:00 - 15:00 UTC+2

1st on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series This webinar introduced Cloud Computing and its usage to analyse and process Earth Observation (EO) data. It also explained the topic of interactive computing through Jupyter Notebooks and JupyterLab as one of the technologies that have been used over Cloud Computing platforms for developing analytical procedures …

Event details
Capacity building EO Africa

Online course on Advances in Earth Observation

The EO Africa R&D Facility is organizing from February 7 to 11 2022 a 5-day online training course (5 hours per day) on the Advances in Earth Observation. Due to restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the course will be held fully in an online mode and participants will be able to connect to all …

Read more
EO Africa R&D

Call for Research Proposals 2021

We are pleased to announce that in collaboration with the AUC, the ESA EO AFRICA R&D Facility has launched a call for research proposals to support African–European collaborative efforts to develop innovative, open-source EO algorithms and applications adapted to African solutions to African challenges by leveraging cutting-edge cloud-based data access and computing infrastructure. 15 research …

Read more
EO Africa Partnership

Join the ESA EO Africa Community!

ESA is pleased to invite you to join the EO AFRICA community, and future ESA Africa-related activities as a research partner and collaborator. Being part of such community will allow us to timely inform you about the different research calls, innovation collaborations and training opportunities. Please confirm your interest and willingness to join the network …

Read more