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<p style="text-align: left;">Welcome to the first session of the Digital Earth Africa training course!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">This session introduces the Digital Earth Africa program and shows you how to sign up to the Digital Earth Africa Sandbox, our data analysis platform. We will then walk through an exercise exploring crop health data.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">It is not required to have previous experience in Earth observation data or Python coding. Every section includes instructions and screenshots on how to perform each task.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><i>This course was originally published at training.digitalearthafrica.org in August 2020 as the "Digital Earth Africa 6-Week Training Course". Course material has been updated and expanded for the edX platform.</i></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Africa is a continent with a rich and diverse environment that faces many challenges such as ready access to drinking water, rapid urban development, active deforestation and food insecurity. Our understanding of these challenges connects directly to how well we understand its natural resources, and the human and climate impact on them.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The Digital Earth Africa (DE Africa) program aims to increase this understanding through three main tenets:</p>
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<li><strong>Explore</strong>: Allow access to satellite data in ways that address Africa’s needs</li>
<li><strong>Learn</strong>: Provide avenues for learning about Earth observation technology and its significance for policymaking and improving the lives of Africans</li>
<li><strong>Engage</strong>: Stimulate participation and collaboration in events that will help implement, scale and sustain the program</li>
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<p style="text-align: left;">For more details on the Digital Earth Africa program, visit the <a class="reference external" href="https://www.digitalearthafrica.org/" target="_blank">Digital Earth Africa homepage</a>. If you would like to learn more about Earth observations in general, take a look at <a class="reference external" href="https://www.oecd.org/environment/indicators-modelling-outlooks/Earth_Observation_for_Decision_Making.pdf" target="_blank">this summary document</a> by the OECD.</p>
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