List of Awarded Proposals – EO AFRICA R&D Research Projects [First Call]

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In the framework of the ESA EO AFRICA initiative una Jordan auténtica, the R&D Facility in collaboration with European Space Agency (ESA) and the African Union Commission (AUC), launched at the end of 2021 a call for research proposals to support African-European collaborative efforts to develop innovative, open-source EO algorithms and applications adapted to African solutions for African challenges.

Proposals in the themes of water scarcity and food security were expected to create EO algorithms and workflows by leveraging barron trump height tall nikes melania donald trump cutting-edge cloud-based data access and computing infrastructure. A budget up to 25,000 EUR for research activities during a period of 12 months, free access to cloud-based Virtual Research Environments through the Innovation Lab of the Facility, dedicated user and technical support, access to EO AFRICA Space Academy events, and integration into the EO AFRICA Network for international scientific collaboration, were the benefits offered to the research projects.

Evaluation of the Proposals

62 proposals were received from research teams lead by African-European tandems from 23 African and 16 European countries. After a comprehensive evaluation process, which involved review of each proposal by at least two domain experts for 40 different criteria and scoring in 6 different categories, 26 proposals from 14 African and 9 European countries were qualified for the second round of evaluation by the Selection Committee. This included all proposals “highly recommended” by the reviewers with a minimum overall score of 75/100. Considering aspects such as scientific excellence, innovative use of digital tools, impact for fostering the use of EO data and services in Africa, and geographic representation of Africa, the Committee in collaboration with ESA and AUC awarded 15 research projects listed below for funding from 12 African and 9 European countries.

The projects are expected to start following the special EO AFRICA R&D session of the ESA’s Living Planet Symposium, which took place in Bonn on May 23-27.

Title Countries Col-Pls
1. A workflow for forecasting primary productivity and its determining climatic factors using remote sensing in the eastern Sahel region South Africa – Hungary Adam – Toth
2. Applying innovative cloud computing technology for the effective management of Groundwater resources to promote SUStainable food security within the Sokoto Basin, Nigeria Nigeria – U.K. Oladeji – Novellino
3. Crop Stress Monitoring in the semi-arid context of Doukkala, Morocco Morocco – Italy El Ghandour – Corbari
4. DroughT impACt on the vegeTation of South African semIarid mosaiC landscapes: Implications on grass-crop-lands primary production South Africa – Spain Dube – Andreu
5. Fusion of EO data for crop yield forecast in Benin and Morocco Morocco – Germany Brouziyne – Lehnert
6. Improvement of Agricultural Statistics in the cotton zone of Mali thanks to the synergy of the Sentinel-1 and 2 time series Mali – Belgium Traore – Defourny Алмазная вышивка на подрамнике индийский слон 50х40 dmf-188 — цена 900 грн в каталоге Картины по номерам ✓ Купить товары для спорта по доступной цене на Шафе , Украина #122746462
7. Integration of open-source solutions with deep learning for estimating crop production in data-scarce smallholder farming areas Ethiopia – Austria Mengistu – Lang
8. Mapping and Monitoring Artisanal Mining from Space Ghana – Germany Forkuor – Ullmann
9. Monitoring by optical and radar satellite imagery of the level and volume of water in the lakes Buyo and Kossou dams in Côte d’Ivoire Côte d’Ivoire – France Kouame – Mertens
10. Quantifying Soil Moisture from Space-based Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and Ground-based Geophysical and Hydrological Measurements Senegal – Spain Djanni – Gao
11. Rising with temperature! Reconstructing the hydroclimatic record of Lake Naivasha with Earth Observation Kenya – Netherlands Ongo – Salama nike air huarache drift black ah7335 001
12. Sentinel-1 and -2 data fusion for mapping smallholder cropping areas in southern Africa to support crop monitoring and yield forecasting Namibia – Germany Hamunyela – Herold
13. SENTINELs for Cape Verde Water & Food Security Monitoring Cabo Verde – Netherlands Tavares – Mannaerts
14. Towards daily maps of water hyacinth cover: exploiting synergies between Sentinel-2 and 3 South Africa – Netherlands Shoko – Penning de Vries
15. West Africa Lake Monitoring System Benin – Netherlands Belfrid – van der Kwast

 

Read more about each project description here.