We are calling on developers, geoscientists, and innovative minds across Europe to submit geospatial solutions using advanced geospatial technology.
Participants will leverage DigitalGlobe’s Geospatial Big Data platform (GBDX) with access to DigitalGlobe’s high-resolution satellite imagery, along with ESA’s Sentinel-2 medium resolution, wide-swath imagery, to perform analysis (with tools to engineer proprietary algorithms) and test concepts.
Why are we doing this?
Advancements in geospatial technology are enabling us to transform Earth observation imagery into meaningful context and actionable insights. Adopting these new capabilities will fix a big problem many don’t realize impacts global development and humanitarian programs: zombie statistics. These outdated or unverified stats often contaminate and mislead otherwise credible and well-intentioned program or project planning.
Earth observation capabilities validate information with high-resolution, multispectral imagery. We can see more nuanced detail than ever before, which means we can more accurately and quickly understand the impact of human activity and natural disasters on the ground.
DigitalGlobe and ESA are proud to encourage innovative approaches to using geospatial data to unlock critical solutions and reverse alarming statistics like these:
- Approximately 700 million people in 43 countries suffer today from water scarcity. (Global Water Institute, 2013)
- By 2025, 1.8 billion people are expected to be living in countries or regions with absolute water scarcity, and two-thirds of the world population could be under water stress conditions. (UNESCO, 2012)
- 54% of the world population live in urban areas, consumes close to 2/3 of the world energy and account for the more than 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions. (World Bank)
- By 2045, the world's urban population will increase by 1.5 times to 6 billion. (World Bank)