JOHANNESBURG, 22 April 2025—When the ground-breaking Digital Earth Africa (DE Africa) program was launched over five years ago, it was widely regarded as an innovative and revolutionary way for Africans to access and leverage Earth observation data to enhance decision-making around critical environmental and socio-economic challenges. With support from trailblazing funders including The Leona M. and Harry B.
Dr Lisa-Maria Rebelo has been appointed Acting Managing Director of the Digital Earth Africa (DE Africa) Program Management Office (PMO), effective January 2025.
Dr. Lisa Rebelo, the Lead Scientist at Digital Earth Africa, discusses with CNBC Africa the immense potential that decades of satellite imagery and earth observation data hold. With approximately 9,000 active satellites orbiting Earth, around 20% of them dedicated to collecting data on land and oceans, the possibilities for utilising this information are vast.
The Research Insitute for Innovation and Sustainability (RIIS) has been appointed as the interim host for the Digital Earth Africa Programme Management Office.
Digital Earth Africa is used extensively by stakeholders throughout Africa as a free platform providing satellite imagery and products specific to the African continent. It is the world’s largest operator of open data cube (ODC) infrastructure.
Digital Earth Africa is proud to launch a new, operational continental service, providing monthly high-resolution cloud-free composites for the entire African continent. This service is the latest in a series of Digital Earth Africa Earth observation products designed to support informed decision making for sustainable development and climate action.
Après une sélection rigoureuse, South African National Space Agency (SANSA) accueillera le Bureau de gestion du programme Digital Earth Africa (PMO).
Digital Earth Africa (DE Africa) has released “GeoMAD”, a powerful new information source for visualisation and analysis of changes across the African landscape.
We’re working to make Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar satellite data available in an analysis-ready format within the Digital Earth Africa platform by the end of 2020.
Open and free data that fosters collaboration across diverse perspectives are driving principles of Digital Earth Africa (DE Africa), and we look to solutions that help achieve this across every facet of the program. Thanks to the support of SERVIR – a joint NASA and USAID initiative – the Collect Earth Online (CEO) tool has done just that by removing barriers to operationalizing the DE Africa validation strategy.
The Digital Earth Africa (DE Africa) platform now has operational analysis-ready Earth observation (EO) data over Africa, using free and open images captured by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Sentinel-2 satellites. This is our first ever continuously updated satellite data at the continental scale for Africa.