Water authorities in Africa receive training in Earth Observation   Image over Kenya and Lake Victoria acquired by the Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) instrument aboard Envisat.   ESA TIGER training course focused on utilising Earth Observation technology to overcome water-related problems.   The TIGER training course was held from 26 to 30 November 2007 in Nairobi, Kenya. The TIGER Initiative's primary objective is to help African countries overcome problems faced in the collection, analysis and dissemination of water related geo-information by exploiting EO technology.   The fertile green territory of Egypt's Nile Delta provides a notable contrast to the bare desert of the Sinai Peninsula in this Envisat view. Only 2.5% of Egypt's land area is suitable for agriculture, corresponding to the Nile Valley and Delta. These low-lying floodplains are some of the oldest intensively cultivated areas on Earth, supporting up to 1600 inhabitants per square kilometre. This 14 February 2005 image was acquired by Envisat's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS), working in Full Resolution Mode with a spatial resolution of 300 metres and width of 670 km. Release date: 6 December 2007