We are delighted to announce the joint award ceremony of the third edition of EO4SDG Mini-projects, and the Earth at Risk image contest organized by the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society. The winners of the two competitions will get the chance to present their proposals and talk about the stories behind their outstanding EO data images followed by a Q&A session.
The mini projects for Sustainable Development Goals competition is an initiative of the Technical Committee REACT (Remote sensing Environment, Analysis, and Climate Technologies) to support science and to motivate local students to work together on a specific topic related to Earth Observation and Sustainable Development Goals (EO4SDG). The focus is on the local regional problems and how remote sensing can help to identify and quantify the environmental/societal impact of a changing Earth. We got 26 amazing contributions from 12 countries.
The winning team:
First Place
Title: Glacial Lake Mapping under Climate Change: A Novel Solution Using Remote Sensing Foundation Model
Di Jiang, Shiyi Li, Irena Hajnsek and Muhammad Adnan Siddique
Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
German Aerospace Center (DLR), Microwaves and Radar Institute (HR), Germany
Information Technology University, Lahore, Pakistan
Second Place
Title: Change Assessment in Machine Learning-based Multihazard Susceptibility Maps in the HKH Region Using Piecewise Regression Models
Aswathi Mundayatt, Aditya Priyadarshi, and Ananthakrishna K
International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIIT-B)
Third Place
Cloud native earth observation approaches for environmental monitoring of mineral resource extraction detection (MRED) in Fiji and the wider Pacific
Nick Metherall, Alex Leith, Kishan Kumar, Elenoa Biukoto, Sachindra Singh
University of the South Pacific + Australian National University, The Pacific Community (SPC) and Digital Earth Pacific
The Earth at Risk Image Contest aims to raise awareness of nature and climate crises and to demonstrate the power of Earth Observation (EO) data in helping us better understand the environmental changes on Earth and find solutions to protect our planet. Our contest had around 40 amazing entries from over 15 countries. We were delighted to see the efforts and thoughts behind these submissions for the third edition of this contest. The motivation for highlighting environmental issues through remote sensing and geospatial technologies was reflected in the quality of the images we received.
First Place:
Impact of Gaza war on vegetation health by Adityarajsinh Jayendrasinh Parmar from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India
Second Place:
Heat Risk Map of Kano Metropolis by Odunlami Oluwabunmi from the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Nigeria
Third Place:
Crowded and Choked in the City of Gardens: The Population and Pollution Paradox, Lahore 2010 by Muhammad Bilal from the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria
Check out our amazing image gallery for this competition on our main website.
We congratulate all the winners and look forward to hearing from them!!!
