13-16 October 2020
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.