As part of the ERDF funded ENBIC2LAB project to develop an Environmental and Biodiversity Climate Change Lab for the integration of Big Data Analysis and Artificial Intelligence for the service of environmental protection, a validation hackathon led by ETC-UMA in July gathered 46 participants from 16 countries for the development of a Mediterranean Land cover map. Among the participants, we counted with students and researchers from Universities and research centres and technical personnel from public administrations (General Directorate of Forestry in Türkiye, Ministries of Italy, Morocco and Tunisia and National parks in Montenegro).
Only 31 participants of 14 countries made it to the final in a tight competition where only three reached the podium. At ETC-UMA, we are glad to announce the winners:
- Dr. Gianmaria Bonari, Ph.D., Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, ITALY
- Juan Miguel Moya Pérez, Ph.D. candidate, ECOMED, Faculty of Biology, University of Murcia, SPAIN
- Hamdi Aouinti, Ph.D. candidate, National research Institute of rural engineering, Water and Forests, TUNISIA
The prize consists on 1-week capacity building at ETC-UMA on “Remote Sensing, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Applications”, with all costs included (travel, accommodation, transportation and meals). ETC-UMA has also extended the invitation of the course to the rest of participants (at their own costs) and foresees the dissemination of part of the course as a hybrid online/offline version. The content and dates of the course is to be planned with the winners, and will include a theoretical introduction on available data resources and software, metadata, and data analysis. The core of the course will be a hands-on on data processing, with the vision of potential additional collaborations between the winners and the ETC-UMA.
For more information: Virgina García
This hackathon was implemented as part of the activities included in the e-infrastructure LifeWach ERIC Project “EnBiC2-Lab”, co-funded by the ERDF (Spain’s Pluri-regional Operative Programme 2014-2020) through the Spanish Ministry for Research and Innovation”.
