ESA App Challenge winners

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.