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Strengthening Collaboration for Public Health and Humanitarian Aid: Key Earth Observation Solutions discussed during Gaston Berger University meeting, in Senegal, 13 January 2025

Alexia Tsouni, Research Associate of the Operational Unit “BEYOND Centre of Earth Observation Research & Satellite Remote Sensing” of the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing (IAASARS) at the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) and Lamine Ndiaye, Community Facilitator of Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Senegal, met with Professor Adrien Coly, Professor Dah Dieng, and other stakeholders at the Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences, Gaston Berger University, Senegal on January 13th 2025, and discussed the current challenges in the region as well as the available EO-based solutions.

Alexia Tsouni presented the Early Warning System for Mosquito Borne Diseases – EYWA, Winner of the 1st EIC Horizon Prize on Early Warning for Epidemics, a prototype system addressing critical public health needs in Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, and beyond. EYWA lies under the umbrella of the EuroGEO Disaster Resilience and Health Action Group, which is led by BEYOND/IAASARS/NOA.

Lamine Ndiaye presented the services developed by OpenStreetMap Senegal (https://openstreetmapsenegal.org/), promoting access to quality healthcare for women and children in hard-to-reach parts of Senegal that also experience limited health services (https://openstreetmapsenegal.org/realisations/). HOT is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping, working together with local communities and indigenous people in Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America (https://www.hotosm.org/).

BEYOND/IAASARS/NOA and HOT have established cooperation in the framework of the GEO-CRADLE GEO Initiative, which coordinates a sustainable GEO capacity building action and support of feasibility studies for demonstrating the value of EO, leveraging the GEO and EuroGEO innovation in Africa, Asia Pacific, Middle East, Balkans and the Black Sea.

 

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