The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
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Cheetah – Taking on a Billion-dollar Problem in Africa won the ESA App Challenge in the 2013 Copernicus Masters competition. The app combines crowdsourcing with Earth observation data to assist in global food security with particular focus on the production and transportation of crops in Africa.
From left: Valentijn Venus, University of Twente; Stephen Trainor, Crookneck Consulting LLC; Alexander Popp, Technical University of Munich; Alain van Hanegem, Decos Information Solutions B.V.; Ulrike Daniels, Anwendungszentrum GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen; Josef Aschbacher, ESA; Thorsten Rudolph, Anwendungszentrum GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen.