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GMES AND AFRICA, Workshop 1 : EO for seasonal agriculture monitoring

13-16 October 2020

Project GMES
Projet-GMES

Online Event Agenda

Time

Main Activities

Day 1

09h00 – 09h15

Crastelf-eacademie connection opens

09h15 – 09h30

Introduction Welcome, opening speech and training agenda (OSS & CRASTE-LF teams)

09h30 – 10h00

Keynote presentation: Copernicus space segment for crops mapping and monitoring – Operational use. (ESA)

10h00 – 10h30

Interactive session

10h30 – 10h45

Break

10h45 – 11h05

EO data analytics for land use and land cover mapping. (IRD)

11h05 – 11h35

Interactive session

11h35 – 12h15

Two case-studies for agriculture monitoring using Optical and SAR Copernicus data.

(i)  Sentinel 2 coupled to thermic bands for irrigated/no-irrigated areas mapping, (ii) Radar Sentinel 1 imagery for surface moisture estimation. (CESBIO-TETIS)

12h15 – 13h15

Interactive session – Sharing good practices

13h15 – 13h30

Wrap-up and adjourn

Day 2

09h15 – 09h30

Crastelf-eacademie connection opens

09h30 – 09h35

Welcome & Day 2 program presentation

09h35 – 11h00

Hands-on exercises on crop type classification using Sentinel 2 data and open source software and libraries – An image data processing workflow. (IRD)

11h00 – 11h15

Break

11h15 – 13h15

Hands-on exercises on crop type classification using Sentinel 2 data and open source software & libraries – Ground truthing & Accuracy assessment. (IRD)

16h00 – 16h30

Interactive session – Sharing good practices

16h30 – 16h45

Wrap-up and adjourn

Day 3

09h15 – 09h30

GoToWebinar connection opens to 2 classrooms (French class and English class)

09h30 – 09h35

Welcome & Day 3 program presentation

09h35 – 11h00

Cloud computing introduction. (ESA)

11h00 – 11h15

Break

11h15 – 12h00

Agriculture monitoring in cloud environment. (ESA)

12h00 – 13h00

Jupyter Notebook to derive vegetation indices. (ESA)

13h00 – 13h15

Wrap-up and adjourn

Day 4

09h15 – 09h30

GoToWebinar connection opens

09h30 – 09h35

Welcome & Day 4 program presentation

09h35 – 11h00

Hands-on exercises on agriculture monitoring in cloud environment I. (ESA)

11h00 – 11h15

Break

11h15 – 13h00

Hands-on exercises on agriculture monitoring in cloud environment II. (ESA)

13h00 – 13h15

Wrap-up and workshop conclusion & cloture

Objectifs

This first tele-training aims to achieve three (03) main objectives:

  • Ensure an effective access and use of Copernicus EO resources for agricultural monitoring needs.
  • Strengthen knowledge and enhance operational skills on crops mapping technics using EO-based learning approaches.
  • Enable optimal exploitation of the ESA EO products within cloud computing environment.

Targeted Audience

About 35 experts in EO for agriculture from national and regional OSS consortium partners and guest persons from others institutions or consortia.

Documents and Working Tools

The tele-training will be held via the CRASTE-LF e-learning management platform (crastelf-eacademie[1]) and possibly via Zoom video-conference platform. A workshop-kit, comprising a set of documents, working tools and virtual machine access, will be handed over to participants before the start of the workshop. We have foreseen an availability of the Virtual Machine for the participants of two months. The training materials will be available and accessible for free on the GMES&Africa digital E-training platform. In order to make the training practical and useful each participant is required to use a computer strong enough with a good internet connection.


[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PpwNaDG7sk

Expected Results

The expected results from the first tele-workshop are as follows:

  • Different approaches and methodologies for using EO data and technics in agriculture monitoring are presented.
  • Practical and technical aspects of EO based crops mapping are performed by the participants.
  • Procedures of EO dataset processing within cloud computing environments for generating automated process of crop mapping are practiced by the participants.

Certification

As a regional training center, the CRASTE-LF will certify trainees for their participation to the workshop.  A digital certificate will be emailed at the end of the training.