Winners of the 2026 REACT EO4SDG competition
1st Place
- Project: Seeing Function, Not Just Form: A Behavior-Aware Geo-Foundation Model for Equitable Urban Mapping in Data-Scarce Regions
- Team: Nodira Tillayeva, Haru Terashima, Naoki Tamura
- Affiliation: UCLab, Nagoya University, Japan
2nd Place
- Project: Crop Sentinel: Multi-Source Remote Sensing and Machine Learning for Early Warning of Wheat Yield Failures in Northern Kazakhstan Under Climate Stress
- Team: Marua Alpysbay
- Affiliation: Institute of Ionosphere, Kazakhstan
3rd Place
- Project: Satellite-Based Monitoring of Water Security in the Middle East: Earth Observation for Sustainable Water Management and Climate Resilience
- Team: Behnam Khorrami & Fahimeh Youssefi, Shoaib Ali , Samira Sadat Soltani, Mohammad Javad Valadan Zoej, Jonathan Li, Ebrahim Ghaderpour
- Affiliation: Department of Remote Sensing and GIS, University of Tabriz, Iran
A massive thank you to all participants for showcasing how satellite data and innovative research can address critical global challenges.
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