Cropland Extent is now available for the entire African continent

  Digital Earth Africa is excited to announce that the provisional Cropland Extent Map now offers complete coverage of the entire African continent.  According to…
13 Apr 2022

Digital Earth Africa - a use case for Earth observation from the UN Big Data Task Team

Digital Earth Africa is privileged to be featured in the latest video from UN Big Data. The video demonstrates Digital Earth Africa’s ability to deliver big data to enable an…
13 Apr 2022

Identifying and analysing irrigated agriculture in Mozambique using DE Africa tools and services

Combining remote sensing technology with field surveys and local knowledge creates a powerful blend of information to comprehensively analyse patterns of irrigation, and to…
11 Apr 2022

Digital Earth Africa helps to remotely assess the productivity of mango farms in Ghana

Did you know that you can watch a mango tree grow from space? A new study (1) by Benjamin Adjah Torgbor et al. has been assessing the potential of the Digital Earth Africa…
05 Apr 2022

DE Africa supports agriBORA to develop more robust insights for greater food security in East Africa

With a mission to improve decision making throughout the agriculture value chain, the agriBORA platform is all about empowering agribusinesses. It was designed to provide…
28 Mar 2022

Big Data Ghana works towards more sustainable agriculture with the help of Digital Earth Africa

Farmers in Ghana are facing uncertainty. Climate change, drought and lack of market access make accurately predicting crop yields and income difficult, and a lack of reliable data…
28 Mar 2022

Celebrating International Women’s Day 2022 - Unlocking the promise of tomorrow with African Women in GIS

Digital Earth Africa partnered with African Women in GIS to celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8th 2022. The virtual event ‘Unlocking the promise of tomorrow - Gender…
10 Mar 2022

Digital Earth Africa strengthens Africa-wide partnerships

Five key strategic partnerships have been strengthened between Digital Earth Africa and expert Earth observation organisations across the continent, supported by SANSA as DE…
16 Feb 2022

Meet Dr Meghan Halabisky - Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science

We are celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science by recognising the importance of female scientists as both agents of change and also the beneficiaries of…
11 Feb 2022

Digital Earth Africa reaches a significant technical milestone - 3PB of data in the AWS Cape Town Region

Digital Earth Africa reaches a significant technical milestone - 3PB of satellite data for sustainable development in the AWS Cape Town facility Digital Earth Africa now has over…
08 Feb 2022