Digital Earth Africa
Online Learning

Learn Anywhere, Empower Africa
Unlock the power of Earth observation with Digital Earth Africa’s online training content available in both English and French. Accessible anytime, anywhere, Digital Earth Africa’s courses equip users with the skills to harness data for real-world solutions. Start your learning journey today and make an impact across Africa.
With partners, Digital Earth Africa has co-designed multiple free, self-paced, online training modules available on the Learning Platform. These are designed to support users to work autonomously on the Digital Earth Africa platform, and address a range of thematic areas. The training material includes modules made up of videos and recorded tutorials, manuals with hands-on exercises, live workshops and access to experts for help and technical support.
Digital Earth Africa Sandbox’ online course
The ‘Introduction to the Digital Earth Africa Sandbox’ is a fully online, self-paced short course designed to help users work autonomously on our data analysis platform. It is freely accessible and includes videos, recorded tutorials, and manuals with hands-on exercises.
Digital Earth Africa User Guide
The Digital Earth Africa user guide provides a set of technical documentation on Digital Earth Africa datasets, products and platforms. It includes instructions for data access and how to use the visualisation, analysis tools, and a gallery of analysis examples.
Digital Earth Africa Map Help Guide
The Digital Earth Africa Map is an interactive visualisation platform that provides users with the tools to visualise satellite images and decision ready data over the African continent. A guide has been developed to help get users started in exploring and visualising datasets.
Digital Earth Africa Weekly Live Sessions
Attend the weekly Live Sessions hosted by the Digital Earth Africa team – and sometimes guest presenters – in French and English to learn how to use our datasets. The sessions are hosted online in a friendly and open environment, where all questions are welcomed.