[Portugal] Fwd: Helsinki NASA Europa Challenge 2017

[Artur Gil]

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De: Suchith Anand

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.


Dr. Suchith Anand
http://www.geoforall.org/
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org

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