The objective of the event was to present H2020 projects (e.g. AfriCultuRes, TWIGA, SWOS, GEOCRADLE, GROUNDTRUTH 2.0) promoting the uptake of EO data in Africa in order to enhance food security, water supply, protection of biodiversity, diversification of the energy resources, and building of a climate resilient society. The event explored reinforcing the participation of those projects in the GEO's multiannual Work Programme in coordination with the initiative GMES in Africa.   

Agenda

• Agenda

Presenations

• Assessing the Spatial-temporal dynamics of savanna ecosystem condition and services in and around the Kruger National Park - KNP, South Africa (Moses Cho and Abel Ramoelo)
• Developing an Earth Observation Operational Application for Coastal Ecosystems Mapping, Monitoring and Assessment of the Northern African Coastal Zone – NAfCoast (Omar Elbadawy)
• Promoting GEOSS and COPERNICUS in NAMEBA: the GEO-CRADLE EU project and GEO Initiative (Haris Kontoes)
• A long-term, self-sustainable & user-centered initiative in Africa on food security (Gerard Margarit & Juan Suárez)
• Applying the Citizen Science Groundtruth 2.0 methodology in Africa. The Kenya and Zambia case (Joan Masó)
• Wetlands: supporting the implementation of SDG’s in Africa with Earth observation (Javier Muro / Jonas Eberle / Adrian Strauch / Kathrin Weise)
• TWIGA: How to achieve sustainability for in-situ observations on weather, water and climate (Mark Noort)
• Designing a feasible and representative research infrastructure network for GHG observations in Africa - SEACRIFOG (Emmanuel Salmon)

Organizers

European Commission / EASME

Contact

Franz Immler (franz.immler@ec.europa.eu)