June 24-27, 2024
Engaging with Open Science for Agriculture Using NASA Climate Data
Algiers, Algeria | Alger - Algérie
A hybrid workshop at Centre de Recherche en Économie Appliquée pour le Développement (CREAD), Algiers, Algeria. The workshop consists of instructor-led, hands-on-keyboard computing exercises in the morning and guest lectures in the afternoons. The computing exercises will feature, over the last two days, our NASA-funded ScienceCore curriculum, which emphasizes the use of publicly available NASA data for reproducible climate- and agriculture-related studies.
- Workshop computing exercises will be based entirely in the Python programming language and learners are expected to bring their own laptops.
- Workshop will be taught in English with French and Arabic facilitation
- Materials will be made available in French and Arabic in late Summer 2024.
C'est important! See the links below for how to register for a NASA Earthdata account, install required software, and find additional resources.
Organizing Team and Instructors
- Dr. Arthur Endsley, Research Scientist, University of Montana
- Walid Ouaret, PhD Candidate, University of Maryland
- Dr. Ghiles Kaci, Professor of Agronomy and Ecology at the University of Boumerdès
- Dounia Bourtache, M.S. Student, Computer Science, University of Boumerdès
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Dr. Sid Ahmed Boukabara, Senior Program Scientist for Strategy, Earth Science Division, NASA
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Dr. Steven Crawford, Senior Program Executive for Scientific Data and Computing, Chief Science Data Office, NASA
- Dr. Molly Brown, University of Maryland and 6th Grain
- Dr. Krishna Vadrevu, NASA Land-Cover/ Land-Use Change Program
- Dr. Natacha Kalecinski, University of Maryland
- Dr. Noemi Vergopolan, Rice University
- Dr. Mohsen Nabil, National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS), Cairo, Egypt
June 24 - Day 1 | Jour 1
- 09h00: Introductions
- 09h30: Remarks, Director of CREAD
- 10h00: Remarks,
Dr. Sid Ahmed Boukabara, Senior Program Scientist for Strategy, NASA
- 10h30: Participant Introductions and Coffee Break
- 11h30: Dr. Arthur Endsley: Introduction to the Open Climate Science for Agriculture Curriculum
- 12h30: Break, Technical Support | Pause et support technique
- 14h00:
Presentation by Dr. Steven Crawford, Senior Program Executive for Scientific Data and Computing, Chief Science Data Office, NASA
- 15h00:
Presentation by Dr. Molly Brown, University of Maryland and 6th Grain
June 25 - Day 2 | Jour 2
- 08h30: Introduction to NumPy
- 10h30: 15-minute Break | Pause de 15 minutes
- 11h00: Raster Data in Python
- 13h00: Break for Lunch | Pause pour déjeuner
- 14h00:
Presentation by Dr. Krishna Vadrevu, NASA Land-Cover/ Land-Use Change Program
- 14h30:
Presentation by Walid Ouaret on land-cover datasets for Algeria
- 15h00:
Presentation by Dr. Mohsen Nabil, National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS), Cairo, Egypt
June 26 - Day 3 | Jour 3
June 27 - Day 4 | Jour 4
