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EO AFRICA F2F Training #6: Vegetation and Drought Monitoring from Space

January 23 - January 27
CRASTE-LF, Sis EMI, Av. Ibn Sina
Rabat, 10090 Morocco

The 6th F2F course of the EO AFRICA R&D Facility will take place in Rabat, Morocco at CRASTE-LF (African Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology in French Language). This course will provide participants with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge on vegetation and drought monitoring based on satellite EO data. It will focus both …

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EO Africa Invitations to Tender Opportunities Scientists Sponsorship

African Research Fellowships Call 2023

INTRODUCTION The African Research Fellowship (ARF) program, jointly carried by ESA with the African Union Commission, was successfully initiated in 2021 with two African fellows selected to carry out their research in ESA in 2022. It aims at empowering African Researchers (PhD or Master degree with extensive research experience) to carry out Earth Observation (EO) …

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EO AFRICA Food Security and Safety in Africa – AFRI4Cast

Prime company: AGROAPPS PC (GR)

Afri4Cast project will develop a modeling platform making full exploitation of satellite remote sensing of PRISMA and ECOSTRESS sensors for climate change impact analyses on agriculture and making it available to African stakeholders for shaping future agricultural policies in the African Continent.  Afri4Cast will provide national-, regional-, parcel-, pixel-specific in season production estimates, mycotoxin formation …

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EO AFRIca multi-scale SMART agricultural water management – AFRI-SMART

Prime company: POLITECNICO DI MILANO (IT)

The project investigates how sustainable agriculture can be achieved in the Africa continent under drought conditions, by co-developing innovative scientific EO-based and state-of-the-art modelling solutions together with African experts increasing their knowledge and capacity, developing an operative platform and database for results visualization and sharing with the end-users.

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EO AFRICA Integrated use of multisource remote sensing data for national scale Agricultural Drought Monitoring in Kenya (ADM-Kenya)

Prime company: Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) (DE)

ADM Kenya project aims to co-develop solutions for monitoring crop condition and cropping systems with EO time-series observations to derive evidence-based quantitative vegetation condition estimates with high spatial and temporal resolution. We will develop novel EO-based solutions for drought monitoring at a national scale in Kenya. ADM Kenya will provide cloud-based processing algorithms that will …

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EO Africa National INcubators – ANIN

Prime company: GMV AEROSPACE AND DEFENCE, SA (ES)

The ANIN projects aims to: Develop and validate, together with South African experts, innovative EO-based solutions addressing drought monitoring at national scale Involve South African end-user entities throughout the project and facilitate integration of the developed solutions into their current operational working practices demonstrating the achieved benefits Fully exploit the capacity offered by ESA EO …

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EO AFRICA Earth Observation system to Manage Africa’s food systems by Joint-knowledge of crop production and Irrigation digitization – EO-MAJI

Prime company: AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE (ES)

Primary objective of this project is to utilize the unique spatial, spectral and temporal characteristics of ECOSTRESS thermal sensor and PRISMA hyperspectral sensor to develop novel methods addressing the growing challenges affecting the nexus of water resource management and food security in Africa. Irrigated agriculture is right in the centre of those two domains and …

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AI4FOOD

Prime company: VLAAMSE INSTELLING VOOR TECHNOLOGISCH ONDERZOEK VITO (BE)

An unprecedented richness of data is captured by satellites every day, resulting in an ever-growing time series of EO data. Despite the extensive availability of data, there are still many challenges when defining procedures for extracting relevant information from long time series. The goal of the AI4FOOD project is to tackle the challenges that arise …

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EO AfRIca ExplorerS – ARIES

Prime company: VISTA GEOWISSENSCHAFTLICHE FERNERKUNDUNG GMBH (DE)

Within “ARIES”  experimental EO analysis techniques will be developed and validated, addressing water resources management and food security matters. Those techniques,algorithms and prototype solutions will leverage a new generation of upcoming operational EO data: thermal and hyperspectral. In addition to established EO resources, especially Copernicus driven Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3, the intended ECOSTRESS and PRISMA data …

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