1. French activities in CB (CNES, AUF, IRD)
Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
French activities in CB (CNES, AUF, IRD)
European Space Agency (ESA), F. Sarti
Agenda Item 24
CEOS 6th Working Group for Capacity Building and Data Democracy (WGCapD)-6 Annual Meeting
DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
27th-29th March, 2017

2. CNES
CNES wishes to start again contributing to CEOS WGCapD in the future
They expect to open in 2018 the whole catalogue SPOT 1-5 to everybody, also for training purposes

3. Main French-speaking Earth Observations « actors » active in developing countries:
AUF
THIEA
ENSG/IGN
IRD

4. Scientific partnership actions
Theia
Activities
Governing bord
Theia is a French national inter-agency organization fostering the use of EO imagery of land surfaces. It covers 10 thematic areas: agriculture, biodiversity, hydrology, forestry, natural hazards, littoral, snow and ice, surface-atmosphere interface, health, urban...
Networking
Events
Scientific partnership actions
Competence centers
Network of competence centres for EO

5. Theia Governing bord Networking Scientific partnership - 2016 / 2017 -
MOU CNES-CIRAD-IRD
Theia
Networking
GeoDEV news in THEIA portal
Workshop GeoDEV - CES THEIA
Workshop GeoDEV Agriculture - Madagascar
Scientific partnership /
Transfer toward SEAS receiving stations: GEOSUD DSI , Muscate Stand Alone , THEIA production chains
National users demands: Data sharing, services evolution (Gabon, Ivory Coast, Senegal… )
Co-construction with African partners: shared E/O applications
Capacity building: GEOFORAFRI
Expertise Competence Centers /
Guiana (Amazonia) and La Reunion Island (Indian Ocean)
Haïti : Needs/Capacities surveys, Competence center dimensioning , synergies with Kalideos Haiti
Madagascar : Needs/Capacities surveys, Competence center dimensioning
Maroc : Royal Center for Remote Sensing support (land use)
2016 Events
24 January : GeoDEV days in Abidjan (Ivory Coast)
17 April : GeoDEV days in Libreville (Gabon)
30 June : Round-table GeoDEV at Toulouse Space Show
04 October : GeoDEV workshop within THEIA –GEO seminary
20-21 October : GeoDEV days in Antananarivo (Madagascar)

6. Theia Capacity Building actions

7. Theia Capacity Building actions
Objectives: Building up EO data processing capacity for forest monitoring: Applied training; Supply and installation of computer equipment for archiving and processing of remote sensing data
Examples of Fundamentals of remote sensing
Acquisition and/or download of images;
QGIS environment:
software implementation and some applications;
Image classification by visual interpretation;
Unsupervised classification under ENVI;
Analysis and classification of satellite images;
Using the Garmin 64S GPS receiver for developing land-use maps;
Geographic data: modeling and creation of diagrams;
Use of free object-oriented classification software for forest monitoring
Duration: from 1 week to 2,5 weeks depending of the module
Object-based clasification; Sentinel2 image

8. AUF
AUF (Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie) supports its members in the creation of training courses and distance-learning such as MOOCs in French speaking countries

9. AUF Formations francophones
Supports at least 3 masters in Earth Observation:
Douala, master IASIG
Abidjan, master CURAT
Ngaoundéré, master GAGER
Until recently the « Reseau télédétection » (former AUF) was organizing many training courses using its network of experts but is presently lacking funding.
 Important potential resource to provide training in EO

10. AUF has a worldwide network (except Australia)

11. Contacts in CNES, IRD, AUF
With contributions by:
Aurélie Sand (CNES)
Frédérique Seyler (IRD)
Jean Paul Rudant (Université Marne La Vallée) Jean-

12. Web Sites with French resources in Earth Observation
THEIA land.fr/fr/presentation/education
ENSG / IGN
public.ensg.eu/course/index.php?categoryid=44
IRD
SFPT radar-formation-et-colloque/