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Digital Earth Africa live sessions 2025: DE Africa coastline service
Digital Earth Africa (DE Africa) is providing analysis ready data in Africa from free satellite imageries namely Landsat and Sentinel as well as continental services such as the water observation from space, cloud free mosaic (GEOMAD), fractional ...What type of web services are available to access Digital Earth Africa dataset and services?
A Web Map Service (WMS) is an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standard that allows users to remotely access georeferenced map images via secure hypertext transfer protocol (HTTPS) requests. DE Africa provides two types of maps services: Web Map ...Happy new year 2025
Digital Earth Africa live sessions: DE Africa coastline service (English) - 15 Jan 2025 Digital Earth Africa (DE Africa) is providing analysis ready data in Africa from free satellite imageries namely Landsat and Sentinel as well as continental ...Datasets available on Digital Earth Africa Map
Digital Earth Africa Waterbodies service empowering decision-makers access to #data for detailed analyses of over 600,000 individual waterbodies across Africa. https://linkpages.pro/qGbnKL Waterbodies on Digital Earth Africa Map ...Water Observation from Space showing insights on water variability
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What are the details of Sept 2021- Feb 2022: DE Africa Sandbox Large Instance Trial?
Sept 2021- Feb 2022: DE Africa Sandbox Large Instance Trial The Digital Earth Africa Sandbox is a cloud-based computational platform that operates through a JupyterLab environment. It provides a limited, but free compute resource for technical users ...I would like to know what dataset and products are available for a specific area. How can I do that?
All satellite data and derived products cover the whole of Africa. However, the amount of usable cloudless data and time depth may vary locally. Several options are possible: It is often helpful to know the coordinates of one of the points in the ...Sauver des fichiers a partir de la sandbox
Pour exporter les données enregistrées dans la sandbox, veuillez suivre les étapes ci-dessous: Cliquez avec le bouton droit de la souris sur l'objet à télécharger sur votre ordinateur dans la table des matières pour afficher le menu contextuel, ...I didn’t receive a Sandbox verification code email.
Please check the spam and junk folders in your email inbox.I forgot my DE Africa Sandbox password. How do I reset it?
Visit the Sandbox homepage at https://sandbox.digitalearth.africa/hub/login and click Login or Sign up. Click Forgot your password? and follow the instructions to reset your password.