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CONTINENTAL DEMONSTRATOR LUISA: LAND USE INTENSITYS POTENTIAL, VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE IN AFRICA

Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE (NL)

Over Africa, land use intensification is a subject of particular research interest. The African land system is undergoing rapid changes and novel approaches are needed to understand the drivers and consequences of land use intensification, as well as the dependency, vulnerability and resilience caused by climate change. It is paramount to understand Africa’s potential, vulnerability …

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EO AFRICA F2F Agricultural Drought Monitoring from Space

November 6, 2023 - November 9, 2023

In this course, participants will get an introduction on how to use satellite imagery for the purpose of agricultural drought monitoring at various spatial scales, ranging from continental to field scale. The training will be composed of face-to-face lecturing, providing a solid conceptual background, combined with hands-on exercises in the Python programming language to strengthen …

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EO4Cerealstress – Theme 3: Crop response to multiple stressors

Prime company: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (GB)

Despite advances in agricultural production, approximately 800 million people around the globe still face severe food insecurity. Biotic and abiotic agricultural stressors reduce and limit productivity (e.g., yield reduction) and ecosystem services (e.g., loss of carbon sequestration). These devastating impacts are increased by climate change, particularly by frequent and stronger extreme weather events. EO4Cerealstress will …

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Remote sensing-based Weather Area Index Insurance (WAII) An affordable insurance solution to increase resilience of small-scale farmers

Prime company: SARMAP SA (CH)

Crop insurance is a key element to increase the resilience of farmers, particularly small-scale farmers in countries highly exposed to the impact of climate change. Unlike traditional crop insurance that attempts to measure individual farm yields or revenues, index insurance makes use of variables exogenous to the individual policy-holder which have a strong correlation to …

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AI-based tillage detection for improved agricultural and climate policies

Prime company: KAPPAZETA LTD (EE)

Our planet’s population is growing rapidly, while climate change is causing more extreme weather events and changes in land-use. This creates a demand for better information services in policy-making, nature conservation, and food security.  The European Commission’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) urges member states to embrace Earth Observation (EO) data as an integral part of …

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13th ESA Training Course on Earth Observation 2023 Croatia

This post contains educational materials from the event 13th ESA Training Course on Earth Observation 2023 Croatia held in Osijek, Croatia, from September 18-22, 2023. Access specific videos (click on ), presentation slides (click on ), and exercise data (click on ) from the sessions here below, or download all the theory slides, practical slides …

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Measuring nutrition in crops from space

With over a quarter of the global population suffering from malnutrition due to nutrient deficiencies, the need to enhance the nutritional value of staple crops like rice, wheat, and soybeans is paramount. ESA-supported research has revealed that data from satellites like the Copernicus Sentinel-2 and the Italian Prisma mission could be used for monitoring nutrient …

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EO AFRICA Webinar: Use of Remote Sensing to Insure against the Peril Drought

September 19, 2023 @ 14:00 - 16:00 UTC+2

This webinar will provide insights concerning the developed EO-based insurance model that utilizes NDVI-imagery to quantitatively assess occurring agronomic droughts. As a business model, since 2018, the Vegetation Index Crop Insurance (VICI) scheme is successfully in use by various Ethiopian organizations. The webinar will be executed under the framework of the EO AFRICA R&D Facility by  ITC-UTwente.

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13th ESA Training Course on Earth Observation 2023 Croatia

September 18, 2023 - September 22, 2023
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology Osijek, Cara Hadrijana 10b
Osijek, 31000 Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)

The purpose of this training course was to train the next generation of Earth Observation scientists in Croatia and beyond. This training course was organised jointly by the European Space Agency (ESA),  Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology Osijek (FERIT), Croatia and Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia (MZO). The course …

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EO AFRICA Online Course: Crop Monitoring and Yield Estimation from Space

September 4, 2023 - September 29, 2023

The ever-increasing spatial resolution offered by the newest generation of satellite sensors allow us to monitor agricultural production at the scale of an individual parcel and to quantitatively estimate or predict productivity. This course spanning from 4 to 29 September 2023 with a daily study-load of 2 hours – 10 hours a week, will provide/present participants …

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