World Wind Europa Challenge Inspiring Solutions For A More Sustainable World What Is the Europa Challenge? The annual Europa Challenge provides the opportunity for Europe's best and brightest to deliver sustainable geospatial solutions that serve the European community, advancing career opportunities for those who accept the challenge. http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/ How to Win? There are two ways to win, as a university project or as a professional project. Winners will be hosted at the 2015 FOSS4G-Europe in Como, Italy, 14-17 July. University Team Project Build an application that serves the INSPIRE Directive and uses NASA's open source virtual globe technology, World Wind. You must first establish a team of three to five students, from a single university, with any mix of undergraduate, graduate and PhD students. Each team must have a mentor. The mentor can be a professor, an associate or assistant professor. Together you design and build a geospatial application that serves local, regional, national or international interests as guided by the INSPIRE Directive, http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/. Professional Team Project Industry can also compete in the professional category with the same criteria as above only there is no limit on team members or any mentor requirement. Here is a great opportunity to showcase your company’s talents, while providing advanced technology leadership to the European community. UNGIWG The UN has the Herculean task to manage an entire world of BIG data. For those solutions to be sustainable, the work ahead must collaboratively address common geospatial issues. World Wind technology provides the ideal platform for collaborative work to develop increasingly more sophisticated tools that manage and analyse spatial data for better decision-making and sharing. Inspiring Solutions For A More Sustainable World “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams” -Eleanor Roosevelt, UN Delegate and American First Lady What Is NASA World Wind? World Wind Java / iOS Android / JavaScript provide the virtual globe technology and tools for visually managing spatial data. World Wind is open source and can be plugged into any application, to experience spatial data in context. Maps Volume on terrain Geometry Video on terrain Imagery Structures Terrain Data Formats (unlimited) GeoTIFF KML BIL NITF PNG Shapefile GeoRSS RPF JPEG (+2k) GML DWG VPF GeoJSON CADRG NMEA etc… Scientific Committee JRC World Wind
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