The amount of Earth observation data from satellites freely available online is increasing at a phenomenal rate thanks to initiatives such as the EU’s Copernicus Programme and the launch of the Sentinel satellites and environmental services for ocean, atmosphere, land and climate data.
While getting access to data is increasingly easy, working with it and designing meaningful applications can sometimes still be a challenge, at least in the beginning.
With this in mind EUMETSAT, ECMWF, Mercator Ocean International and the EEA have launched a competition to try to develop a community-driven resource of Jupyter notebooks using Copernicus data.
For this competition, they are calling on bright minds from around the world to showcase their skills and develop new Jupyter notebooks using Copernicus data that will help others understand and work with this data. The best notebooks will win prizes from a €5000 prize fund.
If you have experience in coding, data science or Earth observation, you could contribute to making Copernicus data more meaningful for a wider range of interested people.
With your help, they aim to build a community-driven resource of notebooks on the Copernicus WEkEO online platform that will empower others to start their own journeys with Earth observation data.
WEkEO provides free online access to all Copernicus datasets and features the Jupyter Lab, where you can develop and test your notebook. It is operated by EUMETSAT, ECMWF, Mercator Ocean International and the EEA.
This open-source library will undoubtedly expand big data analytics literacy in Earth observation and data science, as well as kick start training for the next generation of users.
