The evaluation phase of the leading innovation competition for Earth Observation comes up with first very exciting first results. The winners will not be disclosed until the Awards Ceremony in December, but the finalists of the Copernicus Masters Prize Hesse will already be revealed now.
EOmatic from Ilya Bolkhovsky and Lloyd Hughes convinced the jury. EOmatic enables precision irrigation using satellite data to monitor soil moisture and provide meaningful notifications to both humans and devices.
Matthias P. Wagner had a convincing idea with his “intelligent large-scale agricultural field delineation and monitoring”. It provides automatic large-scale, near real-time agricultural field boundary detection and field extraction to enable advanced products and services.
The Carbonspace Platform from Hrishabh Sandilya, Ph.D., and Oleg Demidov reached the finals as well. It is a disruptive AI and satellite-powered B2B SaaS Platform for Carbon and GHG emissions monitoring and verification.
About Copernicus Masters
The innovation competition is scouting for the most forward‐thinking applications based on earth observation. It provides support for innovations at any development stage, with the ultimate aim of turning them into real business cases.
cesah, the Centre for Satellite Navigation Hesse is the organiser of the Copernicus Prize Hesse. They get support by their partners Hessen Trade & Invest / Digitales Hessen.
Rewards 2020
- EUR 3,750 Cash Prize provided by Hessen Trade and Invest/Digitales Hessen with EUR 1,500 and by the European Union with EUR 2,250 plus comprehensive support to help prepare an application for ESA Business Incubation.
- Business Consulting
cesah will provide the winner with business consulting and further expert guidance - Promotion
Publication of the winning idea by cesah in dedicated marketing activities through its various communication channels - Funding & Expertise
Access to public funding or venture capital if needed. Through the involvement of the ESA Business Incubation Centre (BIC) in Darmstadt, located near to the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), the winner will be able to benefit from the technical expertise of the extensive ESA-related network for EO applications, remote sensing and business development - An extra EUR 10,000 Cash Prize is waiting for the Copernicus Masters 2020 Overall Winner.