Here’s an interesting opportunity for Earth Imagine experts to win something very cool from DigitalGlobe – 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…