Face-to-Face course on Earth Observation for Marine and Coastal Resource Applications | December 14 – 18, 2025 | Alexandria, Egypt | A 5-day training course (6 hours per day), combining theoretical lectures and hands-on exercises to enhance your understanding and practical skills in using satellite data for marine resources monitoring.| EO AFRICA
This webinar will discuss an approach for integrating Sentinel-2 (optical) and Sentinel-1 (SAR) water maps that was inspired by the Copernicus Global Flood Monitoring service, which combines flood likelihood maps from different SAR algorithms into an ensemble flood product.| EO AFRICA
Face to Face course on Cloud Computing and Algorithms for EO Analyses | December 1 – 5, 2025 | Tunis, Tunisia | A 5-day course (6h per day), covering Cloud Computing and big geospatial data concepts, interactive computing with Python through Jupyter Notebooks, and access to EO data from DIAS platforms or via dedicated Python libraries and handling the data on the Cloud.| EO AFRICA
This course will explore the potential of the temporal dimension of low-resolution satellite EO data for monitoring such dynamics over longer periods of time.| EO AFRICA
Following the successful first three rounds of calls for research proposals, the EO AFRICA R&D Facility, in coordination with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the African Union Commission (AUC), launched in Apr 2025 a 4th call for proposals. The aim of this call is to extend the support to African-European collaborative research efforts in the domain of EO applications.| EO AFRICA
The CAIAC (Climate Analysis in African Cities) project is an international collaboration between the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), the African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD), and the University of Ottawa, with support from the European Space Agency (ESA).| EO AFRICA
The 21st Webinar on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel: Deriving Water Quality Indicators and Indices from Sentinel-2 Using Cloud Computing The webinar explores the methodologies for deriving water quality indicators from| EO AFRICA
The 20th Webinar on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel: Using the new H SAF 6.25km ASCAT soil moisture data for drought monitoring The ASCAT soil moisture service, offered by EUMETSAT, is| EO AFRICA
We are pleased to announce that Professor Abel Ramoelo, Executive Director of Earth Observation at the South African National Space Agency (SANSA), has joined our Advisory Board.| EO AFRICA
Deriving Water Quality Indicators and Indices from Sentinel-2 Using Cloud Computing | Wednesday, 23 April 2025, 14:00 CEST (UTC + 2) | Online webinar with live-chat | This webinar explores the methodologies for deriving water quality indicators from Sentinel-2 data using cloud computing.| EO AFRICA
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10 new tandem research projects funded by ESA’s EO AFRICA R&D Facility| EO AFRICA
