Digital Earth Africa

On 4 June 2026, researchers, scientists and technical staff at the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) gathered at the institute’s Nairobi campus for a hands-on introduction to Digital Earth Africa’s platforms and data products. The session, marked one of the first formal capacity-building engagements between the two organisations since icipe assumed...

On 30 May 2026, Digital Earth Africa hosted a training session with the Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) community, opening new pathways for students and researchers to access free, satellite-based Earth observation tools for agriculture and food security work.

Founded in 1984 and located in Morogoro, Tanzania, SUA is one of East Africa’s leading agricultural...

Clean air is a foundation for public health, climate resilience, and sustainable development. Across Africa, air pollution silently affects millions of people, yet the data needed to track and address it has often been out of reach for the institutions working hardest to protect communities. Digital Earth Africa recently engaged the Africa Clean Air Network (AfriCAN) to intro...

Africa is experiencing climate change in the lakes that are shrinking, the coastlines that are moving and the seasons that no longer arrive when farmers expect them. The signals are everywhere. The challenge has always been reading them at scale. That is what satellite data makes possible.

Every day, Digital Earth Africa processes decades of Earth observation data c...