1. AfriGEOSS Initiative: Strengthening Use of EO and Bringing GEOSS to Africa SANSA CEOS WGCapD-7 São Jose dos Campos Brazil 6 – 8 March 2018

2. AfriGEOSS Implementation
2013
Launch
2014
SADC Ministers STI & ET
EU-Africa Summit
Implementation Plan
Steering Committee
+2 Member & PO
2015
AMCOMET-3
AU STC-EST
+3 Members
DICT
2016
26th AU Summit
1st Steering Committee Meeting
1st AfriGEOSS Symposium
AfriGAM
SFS CT WP
+1 EXCOM
+1 PO
EO in ADIRC
2017
WRM CT
SUD CT
2nd AfriGEOSS Symposium
1st Training Programme
+2 PO
AfriGEOSS is now entering its 7th year, growth and progress is measured through:
Community growth
Improved coordination through establishment of Coordination Teams and their activeness
Recognition by Ministerial Summits, such as the SADC S&T Ministers, African Union Meteorology Ministers etc. and the African Union Heads of State through the African Space Policy and Strategy
The Symposiums which more and more allow for user engagement and better definition of user requirements.
2012
Endorsed by GEO-Plenary

3. AfriGEOSS Action Areas
The AfriGEOSS Implementation Plan identified 6 Action Areas, namely ….
These also align and aim to support the African countries in their implementation, monitoring and reporting on the SDGs.

4. Africa Land Cover Inventory
An example of the product developed from the work done by the Working Group on Land Cover for Africa.
NASA is supporting this activity through Senegal to deliver an online inventory.

5. Africa Resources in the GEOSS Portal
RCMRD
TAMSAT
SAEON
UNEP
CIESIN
FAO
Iris
Ispra
ISRIC
Pangaea
German GEO Portal
IGAD-MESA
……more
In Progress: IGAD ICPAC, OSS, AGRHYMET, Kenya OpenData
Resource Providers for a total of 22’545’037 resources
The work on data & infrastructure is still crucial and AfriGEOSS is continuing to work with the GEO GCI (GEOSS Common Infrastructure) team to ensure African hosted resources are discoverable in the GEOSS.

6. The Symposium was a major event last year, hosted by the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) in Ghana.
We acknowledge the tremendous support received from SERVIR West Africa in terms of ensuring participation of the West African countries – the SERVIR West Africa hubs.
5 – 15 June 2017, Sunyani, Ghana

7. AfriGEOSS Training Software Carpentry Google Earth Engine
Sentinel Data Access & Processing Tools
Outcome: identified participants to undergo training of trainers course
2-day training sessions held the week before the Symposium.
Great support received from USAID NASA SERVIR West Africa and European Space Agency.

8. 2018 AfriGEOSS Symposium Week of 25 June 2018
AGEOS has graciously availed itself to host the 3rd annual AfriGEOSS Symposium
The programme will be similar to 2017 Symposium in the sense that the week before the Symposium is dedicated to trainings and workshops. There is interest to host workshops on Water, Urban development, Coastal and Marine as well as Forestry.
The website and logistics are underway.