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Outreach and Awareness raisingThis pillar is to ensure that adequate awareness and outreach activities are undertaken to better engage policymakers, administrators, entrepreneurs, scientists and civil society at all levels in using EO and geospatial data and information.
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El Pais: African nations join forces to enter the modern spa…
29 January 2025
Africa's space aspirations go back over 60 years. For a long time, Africa's commitment to Space was either limited or not very visible. This is no longer the case. One by one, African countries are slowly joining this club, and the pace is accelerating. 40% of them have already taken the plunge.
What's more, this movement is being structured behind the African U…
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GMES and Africa partners rally to weave together solutions t…
29 January 2025
A joint initiative of the African Union Commission and the European Commission, GMES and Africa aims to address the growing needs of African countries to access and use Earth Observation (EO) data for the implementation of sustainable development policies, management of the environment and natural resources, as well as monitoring of humanitarian operations in Afr…
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GMES and Africa Coordinator Addresses EO and Africa’s Develo…
29 January 2025
The theme of the Summit was Digital Earth for Sustainable Development in Africa. GMES and Africa Coordinator and Space Science Expert at the African Union Commission, Dr. Tidiane Ouattara – who was the keynote speaker at the Summit, dwelt on how earth observation can contribute to the development of Africa through GMES and Africa.
Dr. Ouattara cited the vital…
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1st GMES and AFRICA Consortia Information Exchange and Techn…
29 January 2025
The Consortia will contribute at the local, national and regional levels to the GMES and AFRICA Programme.
Hence, on one hand it is important for them to well understand they work under one banner, the Programme main strategies, but also to know each other activities, to visualize possible areas of common interest where resources can be shared.
In this respect, t…
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The GMES and Africa Communication and Engagement Strategy is…
29 January 2025
Communication and awareness raising is one of the pillars in the GMES and Africa Support Programme. The Programme has developed its Communication and Engagement Strategy.The GMES and Africa Communication and Engagement Strategy, which elucidates the strategic approach the Program has envisioned in reaching out to and engaging its spectrum of stakeholders. It is meant to be a guide for both the Program Management Unit at the AUC, and for Consortia, who are expected to utilize it as a reference in formulating their own communications models.…
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Ready and Willing, GMES & Africa Takes off
29 January 2025
This stage is no doubt the most practical, as we begin the journey of active engagement with consortia of institutions with a due diligence exercise meant to strengthen their capacities and streamline their levels of preparedness to implement the Grants. In tandem with the AUC’s grant management system, the consortia are appraised against meticulous benchmarks on…
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Lu dans SciDev : La formation, élément clé de la maîtrise de…
29 January 2025
C'est en tous les cas l'opinion de trois spécialistes de ce domaine, interrogé par SciDev en marge d'une rencontre réunissant en mars à Paris divers spécialistes venus réfléchir sur le développement des activités spatiales en Afrique, dans le but de soutenir le développement du continent.Selon M Sékou OUEDRAOGO, le président de l'African Aeronautics & Space Organisation – AASO, les satellites et les drones peuvent pallier le manque d’infrastructures notamment dans les secteurs de la météorologie et de la gestion des ressources naturelles…
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Save the date: The EUMETCAST Africa service will move from 5…
29 January 2025
The current EUTELSAT 5 satellite is approaching its end of life and a C-band service will no longer be available from the 5° location. The follow-on service will be provided from EUTELSAT 8 West starting 1 May 2018The EUTELSAT 8W will be used for the new EUMETCast Africa Service, based on DVB-S2 to take advantage of the better spectral efficiency of the broadcast. That shift has implications: Antenna Size RequirementsContinental Africa will be almost completely covered, up to 99%, with 1.8 to 2.4 m antennas. The exceptions concerns extreme…
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Save the date: Sentinel 3B will be launched on April 25th
29 January 2025
The Sentinel-3 satellites carry the same suite of cutting-edge instruments to measure oceans, land, ice and atmosphere. Sentinel-3A has been in orbit since February 2016 and will be joined by Sentinel-3B on April 25th. The Sentinel-3 mission is at the heart of operational oceanography. It provides measurements to monitor aquatic biological productivity and marine pollution, to map sea-level change and to forecast the sea state for efficient and safe ship routing.It has been designed as a two-satellite constellation to give optimum global…
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A plan for 20,000 weather stations in Africa
29 January 2025
The Trans-African HydroMeteorological Observatory (TAHMO) hopes to expand the continent’s weather-watching capacity, transforms the culture of African climate observations and the capacity for scientific discovery, by deploying weather stations at every 30kmHow climate is changing in Africa? How diseases spread? What are the water needs and the water flows? How groundwater is recharged? What could be the immediate and long term effects of extreme weather/climatic events... Weather data are essential to answer many question connected to a…
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Experiences and results of users of Earth Observation data f…
29 January 2025
Experiences and results of users of Earth Observation data from Sentinel2 tabled for discussion among scientific and research communities in Rabat, Morocco.It was discussed during the international workshop on the Contribution of Sentinel2 Satellite Imagery for Research and applications for managing Environmental resources in Africa. The workshop ran from 06 to 08 February 2018, in Rabat, Morocco.GMES and Africa Support Programme is a pan-African Earth observation programme that uses Earth Observation data and information from Sentinel…
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Establishment of Humanitarian and Early Warning Mechanisms i…
29 January 2025
The African Union Commission and various stakeholders and partners have been discussing the establishment of integrated and continental Humanitarian and Early Warning Mechanisms in Africa, at a workshop which ran from 26 to 28 February 2018, in Nairobi, Kenya. The theme of the workshop was “African Union: A Decade of Humanitarian Action (2016-2025)”.The GMES & Africa Programme Coordinator and Space Science expert, Dr. Tidiane Ouattara, briefed participants on the potential contribution of Earth Observation through the GMES & Africa…
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Marine User Handbook for Sentinel-3 users available online
29 January 2025
A user guide that summarises key information required to enable both general users and technical users to get information about marine altimetry products, from Sentinel-3 is made available online.The Marine User Handbook is produced by the EUMETSAT. The handbook describes available information on components of the altimetry system. It also discusses measurement techniques. The user Handbook is designed for current and potential users of Copernicus Marine Data Stream that are interested in the Sentinel-3 altimetry products for use in open…