“Global Change in Africa: Role of Space Observations”
Conveners: Anny Cazenave (ISSI), Teodolina Lopez (OMP), David Baratoux (IRD) Jean Kan Kouamé (CURAT, Côte d’Ivoire), Jérôme Benveniste (ESA), Lorena Moreira (ISSI)
ISSI Workshop Agenda (pdf), 11-15 January 2021
(* = confirmed speaker on 8 January 2021)
| Day 1, 11 January 2021 | ||
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
| 13:30 – 13:45 | Welcome and introducing ISSI | Tilman Spohn (ISSI) |
| 13:45 – 14:00 | Objectives of the workshop | Anny Cazenave (ISSI) |
| Session 1: Introductory session | Chair: Anny Cazenave | |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Global change in Africa; part 1 | Omar Baddour (WMO, Switzerland) |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Global change in Africa; part 2 | Jean Kan Kouamé (CURAT, Côte d’Ivoire) |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Break | |
| 16:30 – 17:30 | Space observations to monitor Global Change in Africa; the ESA programme | Jérôme Benveniste (ESA) |
| 17:30 – 18:00 | Discussion on session 1 | All participants (lead: J. Benveniste) |
| Day 2, 12 January 2021 | ||
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
| Session 2: Water resources in Africa | Chair: Stéphane Calmant | |
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Identification of problems; Sahel & semi-arid regions | Frederique Seyler (IRD, Montpellier, France) |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Identification of problems; Eastern & southern Africa | Alex Zizinga (Makerere Univ., Uganda) |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | The challenge of ground truth data for water resource management (west Africa) | Natalie Ceperley (Univ. Bern, Switzerland) |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Remote sensing (laser & radar) of surface waters in African river basins | Stephane Calmant (IRD, French Guyana) |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Applications of the SWOT mission over African river basins | Jean-François Cretaux (LEGOS, France) |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Combined remote sensing techniques for estimating river discharge in Africa | Angelica Tarpanelli (IRPI, Italy) |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch Break | |
| Session 2: Water resources in Africa, continued | Chair: Jean Kan Kouame | |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Large scale water storage from GRACE
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Anne Springer (Univ. Bonn, Germany) |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | The ESA EO AFRICA Project: African Framework for Research, Innovation, Communities and Applications | Benjamin Koetz (ESA) |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Break | |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | EO monitoring of small water bodies | Manuela Grippa (OMP, France) |
| 16:00 – 17:30 | General discussion on session 2 | All participants (leads : B. Koetz and S. Calmant) |
| Day 3, 13 January 2021 | ||
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
| Session 3: Land use & deforestation: Impacts on Agriculture | Chair: Gayane Faye | |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Deforestation in Africa: current state | Frank Martin Seifert (ESA) |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Drought risk assessment for agricultural systems | Jürgen Kusche (Univ. Bonn, Germany) |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | The CCI land cover project, application for Africa | Pierre Defourny (UC Louvain, Belgium) |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | The SEACRIFOG network | Jörg Helmschrot (SASSCAL, South Africa) |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | End users and societal needs | Chinwe Ifejika Speranza (Univ. Bern, Switzerland) |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch Break | |
| Session 4: Exploitation of mineral resources and environmental impacts | Chair: Teodolina Lopez | |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Impacts on the environment: what space observations can tell us? | Gayane Faye (Institut des Sciences de la Terre, Dakar, Sénégal) |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Societal Impacts of mineral exploration | Matthieu Bolay (Graduate Institute-CCDP, Switzerland) |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | General discussion on sessions 3 & 4 | All participants (leads: P. Defourny & T. Lopez) |
| Day 4, 14 January 2021 | ||
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
| Session 5: Floods & droughts in Africa | Chair: Lorena Moreira | |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Flood hazards in Africa | Pauline Dibi Kangah (Univ. Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Ivory Coast) |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Flood predictions and remote sensing | Marielle Gosset (IRD, France) |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Impacts on environment and society; user needs | Fatima Driouech (Univ. Mohammed VI, Morocco) |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | General discussion on session 5 | All participants (Lead F. Driouech & P. Dibi Kangah) |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch Break | |
| Session 6: Coastal Zones Changes | Chair: Jérôme Benveniste | |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Impacts of global change on African coastal zones and coastal ecosystems | Thomas Stieglitz (CEREGE, France) |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Inventory of existing data and gaps | Rafael Almar (IRD, France) |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | The ESA Coastal Sea Level project in Africa | Anny Cazenave (ISSI) |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Measuring bathymetry, shoreline change, etc. from space; applications to Africa | Olivier Arino (ESA) |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Break | |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | General discussion on session 6 | All participants (lead A. Cazenave & J. Benveniste) |
| Day 5, 15 January 2021 | ||
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
| Session 7: Additional Societal Issues | Chair: Gayane Faye | |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Impacts on health of global change in Africa | Richard Damoah (USA & Ghana) |
| Session 9: Recommendations and preparation of the Special Issue for Surveys in Geophysics | Chair: Anny Cazenave | |
| 10:30 – 12:30 | General discussion | All participants |