[Geo4All] Helsinki NASA Europa Challenge 2017

[Suchith Anand]

Dear Karoli,

Thank you for your mail. To join the challenge please go to http://www.nasaeuropachallenge.com/register  (All details are there in the main website) and criteria to implement your  project for the challenge is at http://www.nasaeuropachallenge.com/criteria

Please note that the official code release date is the 7th August 2017 at which time the project teams will make their code public. So if is very short time for you to plan for this year but do consider to join us next year. Please use the geoforall mailing list to help find a mentor. We have lot of excellent colleagues from Africa you can contact for this but you will need to plan this in advance. Thanks.

Best wishes,

Suchith

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From: karoli fabian <karoli at greenae.org>
Sent: 27 July 2017 12:31 PM
To: Anand Suchith; geoforall at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: [Geo4All] Helsinki NASA Europa Challenge 2017

Dear  Suchith

I real need to participate on those challenges but, honestly I have no idea about;

Ø  how to join .

Ø  how to implement my project to the challenge.

Ø  How can I get mentor from Africa especially Tanzania.


I really need a mentor who will guide me from starting to the end of the project


Thanks

Best Regards
Karoli fabian
GIS/Database Specialist/Farm technology Analyst
Green Agriculture and Environment Ltd
karoli at greenae.org<mailto:karoli at greenae.org>
Face book; Karoli Emmanuel Fabian
LinkedIn; karoli Fabian
+255653663328

From: GeoForAll [mailto:geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 11:58 AM
To: discuss at lists.osgeo.org; geoforall at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [Geo4All] Helsinki NASA Europa Challenge 2017

Dear colleagues,

On behalf of GeoForAll, I am pleased to see excellent projects taking shape for this year's NASA Europa Challenge .  All these students have put lot of efforts and even if they don’t win the final awards , they all are true winners.


Some of the excellent projects submitted are below


      *   AWARE Algorithmic Wildfire Analysis and pREdiction
       *   Earth Viewer for the World Heritage Sites
      *   EXODUS -Monitoring and Regulating the approaching traffic and manipulating the signal time accordingly
      *   Make the Farms Searchable from Satellite Imagery with Crop Based Deep learning Models
      *   FarmsNtech
      *  NASA World Weather
      *. 3D OpenStreetMap


Details at  http://www.nasaeuropachallenge.com

All projects submitted for years challenge are at http://www.nasaeuropachallenge.com/projects2017


There is  RCUK SMARTIES Challenge awards (due to the nature of the RCUK funding, the SMARTIES awards are specific to all UK and India students who participate in the NASA Europa Challenge 2017.). Total awards are for £5000. (£2500 for First Place, £1500 for the Second Place and £1000 for the Third Place) Details at http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/03/smarties-entrepreneurship-competition-nasa-europa-challenge-2017/

>From the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) , there will be 1000 Euros award for the best student team for Local farming challenge. Details at http://aims.fao.org/activity/blog/nasa-godan-local-farming-challenge-2017


Help your city and thereby the cities of the world with capabilities all cities need. We are in this world together, let’s deliver results ‘for the benefit of all’, the NASA motto.

We are looking forward to welcoming all teams for our final event in Helsinki , Finland  in August 2017.

Best wishes,

Suchith

PS: I am also pleased to update that Prof. Stuart Marsh will be from now the main contact for all the Open Source Geospatial research at the University of Nottingham.







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