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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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GMES and Africa partners rally to weave together solutions t…
19 April 2024
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…
19 April 2024
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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Sentinel monitors Harmful Algal Blooms
19 April 2024
When colonies of microscopic algae grow out of control in the water bodies, Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) can occur. HAB produce toxins that cause massive fish deaths, poison shellfish beds, and contribute to human illness and death. Thanks to Sentinel-3's , it is possible to track HABs.Sentinel-3's Ocean and Land Colour Instrument (OLCI) sees and detect Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) by using ocean color measurements.OLCI allows biogeochemical measurements like concentrations of Chlorophyll a — the photosynthetic pigment of phytoplankton (algae…
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ESA provides Earth Observation data from non-ESA missions to…
19 April 2024
ESA and GAF have extended their agreement about the provision of IRS data and DSMs as Third Party Mission (TPM) data to scientific users until end 2018 or until full consumption of the budget, whichever occurs first. Depending on the scientific relevance of their proposals, ESA will grant scientists free-of-charge access to IRS optical HR/MR satellite imagery and…
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GMES and AFRICA Season's Greetings / Meilleurs Voeux
19 April 2024
As the year 2017 comes to an end, GMES and Africa Support Programme recounts in its success stories, the selection and official awarding of 13 consortia of African institutions, for the execution of the programme at the continental, regional and national levels.
The year 2018 will mark the practical implementation of GMES and Africa services – both land and marin…
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GMES & Africa's capacity development training works…
19 April 2024
The Global Monitoring for Environment and Security and Africa (GMES and Africa), kick starts capacity development training workshop for the thirteen consortia of institutions that have been officially awarded grants to implement the GMES & Africa at regional level in Africa.
The overall objective of the training workshop, that runs from 29 November to 01 D…
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AUC Awards Thirteen Consortia of Institutions to Implement t…
19 April 2024
The African Union Commission (AUC) officially awards grants to thirteen successful consortia of institutions that will serve as Regional Implementing Centres for the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security and Africa (GMES and Africa) Support Programme.
Following a Call for Proposals in May 2017, a number of African institutions operating in the areas of …
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Earth Observation for the growth of Blue Economy in Africa
19 April 2024
The possible contributions of Earth Observation applications for Blue growth in Africa under the GMES & Africa Support programme was tabled for discussionat the Africa GIS Conference, being held at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa’s Conference Center, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Africa GIS 2017 Conference brings together policy makers, academia, private sectors, EO data providers and partners in the field of Earth Observation from Africa and the world.
In his keynote presentation the GMES & Africa Support…
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Transforming land-based resource management: the role of GME…
19 April 2024
Extreme weather events, climate change, land degradation, droughts and floods severely affect the Earth, and Africa is severely impacted by these environmental challenges.
As a result land based natural resources among others are at risk. Ultimately, the socioeconomic development of its people are threatened. Improved environmental and natural resources manage…
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GMES & Africa contributes to awareness raising on applic…
19 April 2024
The African Union Commission participated the high level awareness raising workshop on space science applications held at the UNECA on 07 October 2017, in Addis Ababa.
Dr. Tidiane Ouattara, the GMES & Africa Support Programme Coordinator and Space Expert of the African Union Commission briefed participants how GMES & Africa use images of Earth from spa…
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GMES and Africa is one of the keynote speakers in Africa GIS…
19 April 2024
GMES & Africa Support Programme Coordinator, Dr Tidiane Ouattara is one of the keynote speakers in the upcoming Africa GIS 2017 Conference which will be held in Addis Ababa from 20 to 24 November 2017 under the theme: Geospatial and Statistical information imperatives for the ‘Africa We Want’.During the five day Africa GIS 2017 conference, leading scholars i…