The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
Find out more about space activities in our 23 Member States, and understand how ESA works together with their national agencies, institutions and organisations.
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The Africa Regional Data Cube (ARDC) is an open platform comprising 17 years' worth of satellite data, available along with problem solving support, capacity building and peer learning activities.
The ARDC was developed by the NGO Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD). This global network is dedicated to expanding the availability of data, including Earth observation data from the Copernicus Sentinel satellites. Their aim is to achieve social impact by ensuring that data can be used to its fullest potential by nations, businesses, civil society groups, and citizens.
Developing the ARDC involved translating satellite data into ready-made information to help Ghana, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Senegal and Tanzania address issues related to agriculture, food security, deforestation, urbanisation, water access and much more. In doing this GPSDD bridges a key gap: although space agencies and organisations offer Earth observation data freely and openly, the expertise and platforms required to access them present a challenge.