The DigitalGlobe 8-Band Research Challenge
For the first-time ever, remote sensing and GIS researchers have access to high-resolution imagery with 8 spectral bands, including coastal blue, yellow, red-edge and NIR2. Do you have a valuable application to use this new data?
Enter the 8-Band Challenge to get free imagery for your research and a chance to win $5,000 and present your findings at Geospatial World Forum in January!
DigitalGlobe will make 8-band imagery available to qualifying researchers to study the impact of using this data for:
- Land Use/Land Cover Analysis
- Environmental Mapping and Monitoring
- Coastal Habitat Mapping
- Feature Extraction
- and more…
BQ. Submit your Proposal by August 31st
All accepted proposals will be granted free 8-band multispectral imagery, up to 100 km2 in order to conduct the research. Completed research papers will be evaluated by a panel of experts who will select 5 winning papers.
The 5 winners will be invited to present their findings at the Geospatial World Forum in Hyderabad, India, January 18 – 21, 2011
The winners will receive free conference registration courtesy of GIS Development, and a $5,000 (US) grant from DigitalGlobe intended to defray the costs of traveling to Hyderabad, India.
An additional 10 researchers will be invited to deliver poster sessions on their research at the Geospatial World Forum as well.
