Name: Digital research center of Sfax
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Activity Focus
1. Which of these statements best describe your Organisation’s role in the value chain?Value-adder(data process-modelling)
2. What are the main thematic areas of activity of your Organisation?Food security (including agriculture and water extremes i.e. floods and droughts)
3. Has your organisation participated in EO-related projects?No
4. Has your Organisation participated in any Copernicus service provision, Copernicus User requirements definition or Copernicus Research & Innovation action?No
5. Has your Organisation participated in any GEO/GEOSS SBA Tasks, community activities or initiatives?No
6. How would you rate your Organisation’s level of collaboration with other EO actors in your country or abroad?
A. In your CountryModerate(5-10 actors)
Please expand on the collaboration if appropriate, indicating if possible the contact details of these EO actors.
We collaborate with the remote sensing national center of Tunisia in the framework of INFOTEL-3. The goal is the inventory of the Tunisian forest.
We collaborate with Sfax Olive institute in the framework of Olive tree monitoring using Sentinel-2 data and LiDAR.
B. AbroadLow(1-4 Actors)
Please expand on the collaboration if appropriate, indicating if possible the contact details of these EO actors.
We collaborate with Météo France in the framework of The AHSPECT project for forest and agriculture field biophysical properties monitoring.

Capacities
From the list below, please choose all the domains in which your organisation has capacities. 4) EO data exploitation for the provision of value-adding services and products

Do you deliver services / products that are based on the exploitation of EO data? Yes
Which of the following areas do your products/services cover? You can choose more than one Land Use/Cover & Change (classified activities and statistics)Agriculture (farming-crops-yield-etc)
Please provide some additional details and/or give concrete examples of the products/services.
We develop approaches for vegetation biophysical and structural parameter inversion.
We also develop pan-sharpening algorithm.
Do you provide these products/services freely or on a commercial basis?All are provided freely
Are you using open EO data sources (e.g. EOSAT, USGS, NASA, ESA) for providing services and which?
Yes, MODIS , Sentinel-2 and MeteoSat-2
Which are your main customers / end-users?
Sfax olive insitute (Tunisia)
Météo France
If applicable, please provide a link(s) where these products/services can be accessed.
no

National Activities
1. Is there funding for EO activities available in your country? Yes
If yes, specify the case(s).Yes- for R&D
Please specify
Ministry of high education & research
Ministry of defense
2. Is there a National Space Policy/Strategy? N/A
3. Is there a Space Agency in your country? Yes
4. Which of the following best describes the level of coordination of EO activities in your country? Scarce
Please provide examples of collaboration between research and private sector entities in your country.
We collaborate with 3-G consulting in the framework of the Olive health monitoring
5. Which of the following best describes the level of interaction between the EO community and decision makers in your country?None

Engagement in GEO-CRADLE
1. Would your Organisation be interested in contributing with its capacities to a regional initiative of GEO and/or Copernicus, addressing regional needs in the domains of Climate Change, Access to Raw Materials, Energy, Food Security and Water? Yes
2. Would you be interested in providing feedback to the GEO-CRADLE consortium for establishing a roadmap for the implementation of GEO and Copernicus in North Africa, Middle East and the Balkans? Yes
3. Would your organisation be interested in receiving our quarterly newsletter and/or participating in future networking events? Yes to both

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