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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
The flagship of the EO AFRICA initiative is the EO AFRICA R&D Facility. The overarching goal of the Facility is to foster an African-European R&D collaboration enabling an active research community and creative innovation processes for continuous development of EO capabilities in Africa. The R&D Facility will review the African EO research challenges and issue …
This HYDROSPACE-GEOGloWS joint conference represents an opportunity to address key surface water issues including: What are the new key science questions? What are the new challenges and how should we address them? What are the new algorithms and the new advancements allowing the use of satellite data with the most advanced models in particular for …
This event will take place online. Fringe 2021 is a free workshop, focused on “Advances in the Science and Applications of SAR Interferometry and Sentinel-1 InSAR” open to scientists, students and Sentinel-1 data users, as well as representatives from national, European and international space agencies and value adding industries. Its main objectives are: …
This event will take place online. The workshops will be held on the following dates: 10th POLINSAR Workshop: 26-30 April 2021 The event will be accompanied by two side events: – 6th Advanced Course on Radar Polarimetry (dates to be confirmed) – Second Biomass Retrieval Inter-comparison eXperiment – BRIX-2 (dates to be confirmed) The Workshops …
