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 …
On March 1st it was held the Kick Off meeting of the EO Africa R&D Facility, which will be led by the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente. The overarching goal of the EO AFRICA RD Facility is to foster an African-European RD collaboration enabling an active research community and …
In October 2020 ESA contributed to a training event on EO for seasonal agriculture monitoring in North Africa. The virtual training was organised by the African Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in French Language (CRASTE-LF), in collaboration with OSS North Africa Consortium and GMES&AFRICA partners. More than 20 experts from 8 different …
TIGER was launched by ESA in 2002 as a direct response to a call for action in Africa stressed by the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). The objective of the initiative was to assist African countries to overcome problems faced in the collection, analysis and use of water related geo-information by exploiting the …
ESA partnered with the African Union Commission, JRC and EUMETSAT to train experts from 25 African countries in cloud computing for EO applications in order to exploit the full power of Copernicus Sentinel-1&2 observations for monitoring Africa. The training, hosted by the CRASTE center in Rabat, Morocco mid October 2019, is part of the GMES …
