Building Capacity for Climate Research: Remote Sensing Training with West African PhD Students

Building Capacity for Climate Research: Remote Sensing Training with West African PhD Students

January 21, 2026

For two weeks, our NetCDA Team, this time formed by our colleagues Lilly Schell and Michael Thiel, is back at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) as part of the WASCAL Graduate School on Climate Change and Land Use, supporting PhD candidates in developing their own skills on remote sensing analyses related to climate change in West Africa.
In addition to covering theoretical foundations, we place a strong emphasis on hands-on, application-oriented training using real-world data. Whenever possible, the exercises are closely aligned with the individual research questions of the doctoral researchers.

We are very much looking forward to two intensive weeks with 15 PhD candidates from 11 West African countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo, and The Gambia.
The time at KNUST will allow us to further expand our network and engage with new and exciting research topics.

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