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The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over part of the Great Rift Valley, Kenya.

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over part of the Namib Desert in western Namibia.

Victoria Falls

Wetland habitat map of Lake George

Lake George, Uganda

Desert greenery

Circular cultivated areas along Crocodile River

Lake Chad’s shrinking waters

Earth from MSG-4

African mosaic

MERIS mosaic of Africa - May 2004

MERIS mosaic of Africa - May 2004

Fishing surveillance in West Africa

West Coast of Africa - First MERIS image

Sierra Leone River Estuary

Central Algeria

Lake Chad

Mount Kenya

Richat structure, Mauritania

Zambezi floodplains: a Ramsar wetland of international importance

Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania

The coast of Guinea-Bissau and Bissagos archipelago

Aorounga Crater in northern Chad

Land degradation in the Darfur region

Khartoum, Sudan

Southern Darfur, Sudan

Envisat image of smoke plumes in Sudan

ASAR image of Darfur road network

Lake Chad water extent increase

Envisat captures Lake Chad

Lakes and mountains of western Uganda

Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda

Libya’s Al Jawf oasis in the Sahara Desert

Libya desert

Libyan dunes

Desert art

The Al Kufrah Oasis in southeastern Libya is shown in this Envisat image

Ubari and Murzuq sand seas, Libya

Envisat image of a sandstorm over the Mediterranean

Sandstorm over the Mediterranean

South Africa’s nitrogen dioxide

ERS-2 GOME map of nitrogen dioxide

Nitrogen oxide hot spots

Mount Longonot in Kenya rose by 9 cm from 2004 to 2006

Volcanic uplift

Virunga Mountains

Envisat image of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Congo River, Africa

Gabon seen by Envisat

Gabon forest

Forest from above

Ground measurements

Envisat sees Lake Tanganyika

Lakes of Africa

The Great Lakes of Africa

Lake Malawi, Great Rift Valley

Okavango Delta in northern Botswana

Okavango Delta, Botswana

ERS SAR multitemporal image of Botswana

ERS SAR multitemporal image of Botswana

The Okavango River

Namib Desert

African gem

Namibia is among the driest African nations

Etosha National Park, Namibia

Etosha

Colourful Naukluft

Algerian Sahara

Algerian Sahara

Sahara desert, Algeria

Algerian sands

Guinea Bissau

Libreville tracking station

Team at Libreville station

Libreville signing

Upwelling near the coast of Mauritania taken with the MERIS instrument on board Envisat

Upwelling off the coast of Mauritania

Western Cape Province, South Africa

Cape Town as seen by Envisat

Sahara sand

Sahara sand and dust seen by ESA's Envisat

Europe and North Africa

South Africa - MERIS - 6 July 2002

South Africa

Snow in southern Africa

Casamance region of Senegal - MERIS - 22 March 2002

The coast of North Africa and the Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea

East Africa and Middle East - AATSR - 11 April 2002

Sentinel-3: better than good

Cairo, Egypt

Cairo and the Nile Delta, Egypt

Nile Delta, Egypt

HRC image of the Pyramids of Giza

CHRIS image of Pretoria, South Africa

Central Pretoria seen by Spot 5

Disaster monitoring of Africa

Inaccessible rough terrain in North Africa

Kilimanjaro imaged by Proba-V

Nightly view of Europe and Africa

Distribution of mosquito species in Africa

Cool lava in Africa’s Great Rift Valley

A scatterometer image of North Africa.

Scatterometer-detected PAW

Root-zone soil moisture May 2016

Simulated seasonal soil moisture maps

Southern Africa

Portugal, Spain and North Africa by night

Benghazi by night

Cairo by night

EGNOS reference stations installed in Africa

EGNOS demonstration in South Africa

Africa Tower

West Africa ASAR, 11 November 2003

Simulated seasonal (winter) soil mositure map of Europe and Africa

There are 71 African Ramsar sites

Proba-V views Drakensberg mountains

Lake Tumba and Congo River

African TIGER community

FRS Africana

'Ground-truth' check on African reservoir

Space4education in KwaZulu Natal

Satcoms in rural primary schools

Supporting satcoms

Rural schools reach out via satellite

Satellite terminals

Forest elephant

Rhinos, an endangered species

Sahara desert, seen from the ISS

Mauritania lava crater, seen from the ISS

Water in Africa

Mauritania, Africa

Copernicus Sentinel-2 reveals more fires than thought

European Space Agency

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