Capacity Building Training Day 1
GEO Infrastructure – Capacity Development and National GEOs impacts
Marie-Francoise Voidrot, Open Geospatial Consortium
GEO Knowledge Hub – Supporting knowledge sharing in the GEO Community
Paola de Salvo, Kalamkas Yessimkhanova, and Felipe Carlos, Group on Earth Observations Secretariat
Measuring Water Productivity through Remote Sensing
Bert Coerver, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Data Sharing Principles for EO Data
Lionel Menard, MINES ParisTech
Implementing a machine-actionable data management plan (DMP) based on GEO DSP/DMP
Braulio Galicia
Data sharing of in-situ measurements following GEO and FAIR principles
Lionel Menard, MINES ParisTech
G20 Global Agriculture Monitoring Initiative
Esther Makabe, GEOGLAM
Anomaly hotSpots of Agricultural Production (ASAP)
Hervé Kerdiles, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
CropWatch Cloud Platform
Miao Zhang, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences
WorldCereal: Global crop mapping system
Kristof Van Tricht, Vito R Sensing
Sen4Stat – Tool box description and country implementation through international partnership
Sophie Bontemps, Université catholique de Louvain
Overview of Digital Earth Africa (DEA) and analysis-ready satellite data, products, services, tools and use case development in various sectors
Kenneth Mubea, Digital Earth Africa
Capacity Building Training Day 2
Earth Observations Maturity Indicator Assessment: Assessing the Maturity of EO Activities at the Country Level
Ernest Acheampong, GEO Secretariat
CoP Integrated Workshop Day 3
OPENING SESSION
The critical role of cloud storage for EO data management
Avin Mansookram, MFT Executive Advisory Services
Advancements and applications of Earth Observation payloads
Ana-Mia Louw, Simera Sense
Empowering uptake through enhanced access to Earth Observation data knowledge
Phila Sibandze, University of Fort Hare
The role of EO Systems in ensuring transparency and accountability in sustainable finance
Songo Didiza, Green Building Group
SESSION 1
Enhancing country-level participation and engagement through GEO
Ernest Acheampong, GEO Secretariat
Enhancing country-level participation and engagement through AfriGEO
Ken Kasera, AfriGEO Secretariat
Connecting African countries to the world’s digital knowledge archives
Kenneth Mubea, Digital Earth Africa
SESSION 2
Unlocking the power of space technology for sustainable development
Naledzani Mudau, SANSA
Advancing sustainable development through collaboration: The role of SAEON
Leo Chiloane, NRF-SAEON
Satellite imagery for agricultural sustainability
Solomon Newete and George Chirima, ARC Natural Resources and Engineering
CSIR’s Precision Agriculture Information System (PAIS)
Moses Azong Cho, CSIR
Space Innovation Initiative
Malese Ndhlovu, Technology Innovation Agency
Space for Innovation Skills Development Fund
Refilwe Mashigo, National Research Foundation
PHOTOGRAPHS
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