The Training Modules constitute the core of the curriculum and include:

• 2-3 days training content
• Webinars
• Slides with voice over
• Exercises
• Case studies

There are eleven Training Modules:

1. Principles of and advances in EO (optical and SAR) (VERSION 2)
2. Cloud Computing for EO Analyses (VERSION 2)
3. Water and Energy budgets from EO
4. Soil Moisture from Space
5. Monitoring small water bodies and floods using Sentinel-1/-2 satellites
6. Vegetation and Drought Monitoring from Space
7. Mapping and Monitoring Ecological Systems; Assessing Land Suitability
8. Crop Monitoring and Yield Estimation from Space
9. POLinSAR processing and applications
10. Atmospheric composition processing and applications
11. Marine and Coastal resources applications

The following topics will be treated in the MOOC:

1. MOOC overview
2. Vegetation and Drought Monitoring from Space
3. Copernicus Programme, Sentinel satellites – EO for Africa
4. Jupyter notebooks and Cloud Computing
5. EO software tools
6. EO based information for vegetation and drought monitoring
7. Observing the Water Cycle from Space
8. Monitoring Vegetation Dynamics from Space
9. Evapotranspiration from Space
10. Soil Moisture Dynamics from Space
11. Crop Monitoring and Yield Estimation from Space
12. EO AFRICA R&D Facility