4th on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series This webinar is devoted to evapotranspiration (ET) monitoring with Earth Observation (EO) satellites. The webinar is going to have four parts: During the first 20 minutes, the concept of ET and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Penman (1948) – Monteith (1965) approach to its modelling will …
1st EO AFRICA R&D Facility Online Course Deadline for applications: March 3, 2022 Introduction to the course: This course introduces participants to Cloud Computing and its usage for Earth Observation (EO) data analysis. It starts with big geospatial data concepts and extends to Cloud Computing as one of the solutions for solving the problems of big …
Developed in the context of the EO Africa project, this series of webinars covers a variety of topics related to the use of Earth Observation (EO) for topics related to water and food security. The recorded webinars, which consist of theoretical background, applications examples and Q&A session, are available here below. Access specific videos (click …
3rd on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series This webinar provided an overview of existing open-source tools for processing data coming from different satellite missions with a main focus on Copernicus missions’ products. During the webinar participants gained familiarity with ESA SNAP software and its toolboxes. Then a short demonstration of QGIS plugins used in …
Running from 2017 to December 2021, the Copernicus Research and User Support (RUS) service aimed to develop an online free-access platform to promote the uptake of Copernicus data and support the scaling up of educational and R&D activities. In particular, the service provided Copernicus data access, cloud computing resources, access to effective software tools and …
2nd on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series The webinar aimed to present which Earth Observation datasets are accessible via Data and Information Access Services (DIAS) platforms, and demonstrate how such imagery can be queried, selected and downloaded. For this purpose, a direct-download solution from a data provider was demonstrated, followed by a free …
The EO AFRICA R&D Facility is organizing an online training course on the Advances in Earth Observation. The course was originally intended to be the first in a series of face-to-face (F2F) trainings. However, due to restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, this course will be held fully in an online mode and participants will …
1st on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series This webinar introduced Cloud Computing and its usage to analyse and process Earth Observation (EO) data. It also explained the topic of interactive computing through Jupyter Notebooks and JupyterLab as one of the technologies that have been used over Cloud Computing platforms for developing analytical procedures …
Educational materials from the Training session on Copernicus Data Access (Spanish) held online on 6 December 2021 in Spanish. Materiales de formación del Training session on Copernicus Data Access (Spanish) que tuvo lugar online el 6 Diciembre 2021 y se desarrolló en Castellano. Diapositivas Grabación de la sesión, publicada en el canal de Youtube EO …
ESA, the Water Observatory of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the National University of Itapúa, the Space Agency of Paraguay and the Joint Commission from Argentina and Paraguay for the Paraná River organised an online training session dedicated to the access of Copernicus Sentinel data. The session featured access to the data in …
