April 16, 2014 -- The CloudEO Farming Challenge is looking for exciting and promising business ideas for commercial geo-services in agriculture and forestry as specific challenge of the 2014 Copernicus Masters. From April 15 to July 13, 2014 participants are invited to submit their applications and get awarded in the international earth monitoring competition. Submit your idea at www.copernicus-masters.com
Benefit from CloudEO´s support
The proposed services need not, but can make use of the unique data, software, and infrastructure environment CloudEO provides. CloudEO will grant efficient access to all types of satellite, aerial, and weather data (including from Sentinel satellites) and a powerful development and processing environment. To market their services, participants can use the CloudEO store, which is capable of handling everything from customer registration and verification to invoicing. Participants will also have access to commercial means of distribution such as streaming technology, OCG Web Services and other leading tools like Google Maps Engine (including the corresponding API).
Win the prize
Do you have an exciting and promising business idea for a commercial geo-service in agriculture or forestry? Sign up, submit your application, and win your share of EUR 300,000. The winner of the CloudEO Farming Challenge will be rewarded with a EUR 3,000 cash prize, six months of access to a free standard workbench for development and production on CloudEO, marketing support through the CloudEO web store, and active business support from CloudEO.
The CloudEO Farming Challenge offers participants the great chance to demonstrate the innovativeness and the market potential of their geo services in the challenging competitive environment of the Copernicus Earth Monitoring Masters. It is a unique possibility to receive international recognition and to improve market position.
About CloudEO
CloudEO - the unique portal for all those who create, interpret and use geodata. CloudEO offers to its customers a secure and highly scalable geo infrastructure to develop, produce and market geo services. It brings data, software and processing power together within a private cloud service and a certified hosting environment. Within CloudEO's geo collaboration platform content providers, software developers, service providers and geodata users become partners within one ecosystem providing affordable geo services for commercial applications, visit: www.cloudeo-ag.com
CloudEO is supported by the European Space Agency and is part of the ESA BIC, which is operated by the Anwendungszentrum Oberpfaffenhofen.
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