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EO4Agri 2027: Scaling EO for Agricultural Resilience Conference

April 26, 2027 - April 29, 2027
ESA-ESRIN, Largo Galileo Galilei, 1
Frascati, RM 00044 Italy

Background Agriculture and the food system in general face growing pressure to increase global production to meet rising food demand driven by population growth, economic development and changing dietary patterns, while safeguarding sustainability and quality. More frequent and severe extreme weather events, shifting pest pressures, and other climate-related stresses require agricultural production to become more …

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EO Africa online course on PolInSAR Processing and Applications

May 26, 2025 - June 20, 2025

This online course equips participants with a fundamental knowledge of PolInSAR processing and application concepts. During the course participants will refresh their knowledge of principles and properties of SAR remote sensing and SAR images interpretation. Participants of this training module will have a chance to become familiar with radar polarimetry and interferometry to then apply …

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Capacity building EO Africa Partnership Projects R&D

EO AFRICA R&D Projects: Call 2025-27

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 and reusable open-source EO algorithms and applications adapted to African solutions to African challenges by leveraging cutting-edge cloud-based data access and computing infrastructure. This is the second call of …

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EO Africa Projects R&D

Ten EO Africa Tandem Projects Launched!

The EO AFRICA initiative, short for African Framework for Research, Innovation, Communities, and Applications, aims to sustain and strengthen an active African research community by fostering innovative processes for the continuous development of African Earth Observation (EO) capabilities. In collaboration with the African Union Commission (AUC) and to enhance research cooperation between Africa and Europe, …

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SUP FCP – TERESA

Prime company: LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (LU)

Drought poses a severe threat to global water and food security, risking numerous food production systems (FAO, 2011), leading to economic risks and financial hardships in both developed and developing economies (Aghakouchak et al., 2015; Fleming‐Muñoz et al., 2023). Agriculture, utilizing 70% of freshwater globally, faces significant challenges in water-scarce regions, especially during periods of …

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AI4Platform: INFER – artIficial iNtelligence for Food sEcuRity –

Prime company: CGI ITALIA S.R.L. (IT)

The artIficial iNtelligence for Food sEcuRity – INFER – Project aims to foster adoption of AI models for Earth Observation (EO) applications. Many initiatives have been recently launched by ESA to augment the availability of training data, to support new ideas through creation and management of challenges, and to incrementally adopt standards that facilitate interchange …

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EO Africa Scientists

EO AFRICA: 4 African Research Fellows selected

At the beginning of 2023 the European Space Agency and the African Union Commission issued a call for 4 African Research Fellows to carry R&D activities for one year in ESA-ESRIN, Frascati. This was the second call, following the one successfully carried-out in 2021/2022. It aims at empowering African Researchers (PhD or Master degree with …

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

January 23, 2023 - January 27, 2023
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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