The SpaceNet Challenge Seeing a better world

We recently launched SpaceNet on AWS, an open corpus of training data established with the goal of enabling advancements in machine learning using satellite imagery. To accelerate this initiative, we're thrilled to announce The SpaceNet Challenge in collaboration with CosmiQ Works and NVIDIA, which is being facilitated by Topcoder. This is the first in a series of recurring open innovation competitions focused on developing next generation computer vision algorithms for automated mapping. With $34,500 of prizes, the first challenge is to tackle the automated extraction of 2D building footprints from imagery. The competition officially starts on 11/14, but you can pre-register today.