ARDC is Supporting SDGs In Senegal
The Africa Regional Data Cube (ARDC) was developed by the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS,) in partnership with the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), Amazon Web Services, Strathmore University in Kenya, Office of the Deputy President in Kenya, and the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD). ARDC, as part of the open data cube, was developed to harnesses the…
African School Of Fundamental Physics And Applications Announces #ASP2020, To Be Held In Morocco
The 6th edition of the biennial African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications, #ASP2020 will take place on July 5-25, 2020 at Université Cadi Ayyad in Marrakesh, Morocco.
The school session is biennial and focuses Africa taking advantage of local support and considering a uniform exposure for Africa. Previous editions took place in Stellenbosch, South Africa between August 1 and August…
Eight African Institutions To Benefit From The GEO And AWS USD 1.5 Million Cloud Grant
The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) yesterday released a list of 21 projects being facilitated by 17 developing countries that will be awarded $1.5 million worth of cloud services, grants and technical support through the Earth Observation Cloud Credits Programme. Eight African institutions from seven countries made the list.
Earth Observation Cloud Credits Programme is a joint project…
African Space Industry Now Generating Over USD 7 Billion Annually, To Exceed USD 10 Billion By 2024
Lagos, Nigeria, 11 June 2019: Space in Africa, the authority on news, data, and market analysis for the African space industry, has just released the African Space Industry Report– 2019 Edition. The report covers Africa's journey in space from 1998 through May 2019 and explains how the industry has already reached over USD 7 billion of annual revenues and is projected to grow at a 7.3% compound…
Towards addressing food security in Africa using space technologies; AfriCultuReS progress meeting results
New technologies can help increase agricultural production and productivity and reduce risk, such as damages caused by pests and diseases or floods and droughts. Information derived from satellites is especially useful for this. Thanks to new types of satellites, such as those provided by Europe’s Copernicus programme, images are more accurate, taken more frequently and available for free.…
How ESA Business Incubation Centre could help boost commercial space innovations in Africa
The European Space Agency (ESA), the French National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) and the Moroccan government are in talks to open African ESA BIC (Business Incubation Centre) in Morocco. The initial MoU was supposed to be signed at the Global Conference on Space for Emerging Countries (GLEC) in Marrakech, Morocco in late April 2019, but, that did not happen due to some operational challenges.…
Towards addressing food security in Africa using space technologies; AfriCultuReS progress meeting begins today
Enhancing Food Security in African AgriCultural Systems with the support of Remote Sensing (AfriCultuReS) is a European H2020 project with a Budget of about 8.5 million Euros (€8,531,533) which started on 01/11/2017 with an estimated duration of 48 months. The project has 18 partners (8 African and 10 European) that come together once in six months to discuss progress and strategies for the…
Meet the 15 selected members of the newly formed Africa youth advisory board on disaster risk reduction
The African Union in its commitment to the implementation of the Sendai Framework has adopted the Africa Programme of Action (PoA) for the Disaster Risk Reduction. As a key component of the PoA, the AU Commission called for application from professionals in the field of DRR to join the African Science and Technology Advisory Group (A-STAG) or the Africa Youth Advisory Board (AYAB) for Disaster…
Participate in GMES & Africa Innovation Challenge 2019
The Global Monitoring For Environment And Security & Africa Project (GMES & Africa) is calling on developers and creatives to participate in the 2019 edition of the Innovation Challenge.
Purpose of the Innovation Challenge
Design mobile applications and communication tools to support the sustainable utilization of marine and coastal resources, and contribute to actions that will reduce…
Ethiopian Prime Minister visits CAST to inspect Ethiopia’s first satellite ETRSS-1
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed visited the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) to inspect the ETRSS-1 earth observation satellite, according to the Office of the Prime Minister.
The 70kg multi-spectral remote sensing satellite ETRSS-1 is being developed in collaboration with the Ethiopian Space Science and Technology Institute (ESSTI) through the support of the Chinese government.
The…