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The WaSCIA project team held a 2-day user workshop, on 3rd - 4th July in Dakar, Senegal.

The workshop was attended by 17 participants, from a range of regional organisations and research groups. On the first day, the participants were introduced to the project and the WaSCIA applications, before getting a chance to try out the applications in a hands-on practical session on the second day. Feedback gathered during the workshop will help shape the future of the WaSCIA project and tools.

The WaSCIA project team are organising a user workshop in Dakar, Senegal:

• Outreach workshop on Soil Moisture and Climate Indices Applications developed in the framework of the: “Water Stress and Climate Indices for Africa (WaSCIA)” project
• 3th - 4th July 2024
• Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (UCAD), Dakar, Senegal

Now that the WaSCIA Applications are live, we invite users to watch the demo videos here, try out the applications and notebooks and give us your feedback here: https://eu.surveymonkey.com/r/wascia-feedback

Please let us know about your experience, any problems you encountered or any improvements you would like to see in the future!

The WaSCIA project team held two online webinars on 11th March and 27th March to showcase the WaSCIA applications and to gather feedback from users who have been able to try the applications for themselves.

The webinars covered an introduction to the WaSCIA project, the WASDI platform, the WaSCIA applications and accompanying Jupyter Notebooks. Recordings of the webinars are available to watch here ...

The WaSCIA applications developed in this project have been deployed on WASDI and are accessible through the WASDI Space Marketplace. These are accompanied by a suite of Jupyter notebooks which sit alongside the generated outputs and enable users to easily interact with the data and extract valuable insights.

The Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document, Product Specification, and Processor Documentation for the WaSCIA solution are now available.

These reports describe the products, applications and processors developed as part of the WaSCIA project...

The WaSCIA project team met on 13th December in ESRIN, Frascati for a successful review meeting and workshop. In attendance were project team members from Telespazio UK, RRS-Hydro and Telespazio France plus project partners from LPAOSF and DGPRE (AGRHYMET attended online) ...

The WaSCIA team held a successful virtual meeting for the African stakeholders on August 30th 2023, to demonstrate the service and current developments as well as to gather feedback from the stakeholders.

During the meeting, the following items were discussed...

The Policy Traceability Matrix Report is now available.

This report contains the Policy Review Matrix which collects key policy requirements relevant to the WaSCIA project. A review of key policy documents was undertaken by the WaSCIA team with the aim of identifying policy goals, actions and requirements...

The State-of-the-Art Review Report is now available.

This report contains a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art of EO-based methods and solutions relevant to the WaSCIA project. A literature review was undertaken by the WaSCIA team with the aim of identifying the most appropriate methods...

Following our WaSCIA user survey we are pleased to publish the User Survey Summary Report. This report contains a summary of the summary of the results from the user engagement activities, suitable for public distribution ...

Livio Loi from RSS-Hydro had an in person meeting with a group of stakeholders in Senegal on February 23rd 2023. He was traveling to Senegal as member of Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce mission to Senegal...

A user survey developed by the WaSCIA project team, was launched online on 6th January 2023. The survey was distributed to a wide audience of potential end users in West Africa. The objectives of the user survey are ...