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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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WATER CYCLE CHANGES CHARACTERISED FROM ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE RECYCLING (WEATHER)

Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER (GB)

Living Planet Fellowship research project carried out by Tim Trent. Water vapour is an essential greenhouse gas in the Earth climate system, acting as a natural feedback mechanism for carbon dioxide forcing. Critical to the development of cloud and precipitation, water vapour also has a significant influence and impact on surface fluxes and radiative balance. Water vapour …

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10th ESA Advanced Training Course on Land Remote Sensing 2021

September 20, 2021 - September 24, 2021
Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering (FGG), Jamova cesta 2
Ljubljana, Slovenia

EO and AI for Forestry   This course was dedicated to training the next generation of Earth Observation (EO) scientists and experts working in forestry domain to exploit data from EO missions (e.g. the Copernicus Sentinels) and use Artificial Intelligence (AI) for science and applications development. The training included theory and hands-on sessions on the …

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Sentinel Hub custom script contest: urban growth in Africa

This special edition of the Sentinel Hub Custom Script Contest started on 3rd May 2021 and will end at midnight on 5th September 2021. The contest focuses on Africa and aims to demonstrate the power of a deep multi-temporal and multi-resolution data cube combined from Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Landsat. Additionally, the area of Dakar, Senegal, …

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