The COVID19 INSPIRE Hackathon 2020 organised by Plan4all and CCSS offers its participants a wide range of challenges, aimed at helping the agri-food economy to recover from COVID19 crisis. You'll find more information below on three of the 13 challenges included in this timely Hackathon.
Sharing deals with the missing mechanism for sharing complex map compositions that combine data sharing services, cartography, visualizations and geospatial markup. There are a number of people producing these maps, using desktop GI tools. However, limited skills, technologies, and infrastructure impede their ability to share the data with others. The Citizen Science Network for Peer to Peer Map Sharing challenge will support users of QGIS (Open Source GI desktop tool) to publish their data and share it via multiple and varied platforms, including social media. It could be useful for students, local policymakers, companies in agriculture, and forestry. The challenge offers several portals for maps publishing and sharing. In addition, it provides a full infrastructure that could potentially be used on a regional level. We are looking for testers, users as well as people from the business sector.
The second challenge, WhiteBoard – Future Collaborative Maps is the most innovative, offering unique technologies for collaborative working with maps. It is a real solution for the COVID 19 period as it allows common problems to be solved interactively. The organisaers are also looking for participants from varied fields of activity and interest.
The last highlighted challenge is dedicated to earth observation. The goal of the challenge 11 - EO for Monitoring Regional Food Supply Deviations - is to analyse how different climatic changes influence production in different years. The potential key to this analysis is the combination of long time trends in the fields, specifically a yield potential with multitemporal seasonal analysis, soil moisture data and climatic data. The aim of this challenge is also to integrate yield maps.
If you are interested in any of these challenges and would like to participate in the hackathon, please register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfBWFdIErX0BpjxJjz1945IBGiqFAnyTQc5bA_avtt5RHU3OQ/viewform
You can follow the Hackathon and access the output via the www.plan4all.eu Web site.
