2017-06-07 – 08:00h to 2017-06-09 – 05:00h
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WASCAL, in collaboration with the European Space
Agency’s (ESA) TIGER initiative, the University of Twente – ITC Faculty,
GeoVille and the University of Energy and Natural Resources, is pleased
to announce a 3-day training workshop on the use of earth observation
data for effective natural resource and agricultural management in
Africa.
The workshop will focus on the exploitation of the data
from ESA’s satellite sensors which provide global scale optical and
radar data at no cost to the user
((https://sentinels.copernicus.eu/web/sentinel/home). The workshop will
aim at demonstrating the capabilities and application areas of data from
the Sentinel satellites, introduce participants to new and open source
tools/applications for processing the data and discuss the sustainable
application of earth observation data in natural resource and
agricultural management in Ghana and Africa.
Target audience: Geospatial analyst and
practitioners in governmental ministries/institutions, the private
sector and postgraduate students.
The outcome of this workshop
will be an improvement in decision making at all level of national
development and an increase in societal benefits from the use of earth
observation technology.
For further enquiries, please contact: forkuor.g(at)wascal.org and copy weto.s(at)wascal.org.