Scotland, Edinburgh

Welcome to this Scotland-wide Space Apps Challenge event page! Supported by the Scottish Space Leadership Council and enabled by the University of Edinburgh.

We are super excited to welcome solution providers and challenge fighters to this event and hope you're highly successful in October.

The committee behind the scenes includes:

• Kristina Tamane - University of Edinburgh/Scottish Space Leadership Council
• Sue Kee - AAC Clyde Space
• Matjaz Vidmar - University of Edinburgh
• Awais Munawar - National Manufacturing Institute Scotland
• Tom Mortimer - Bayes Centre, University of Edinburgh
• Luke Vanstone - Science Technology Facilities Council/Higgs Centre for Innovation

We would also like to thank the whole of the Scottish space sector for their support and particularly NatureScot for providing some truly awesome data sets.

This event aims to show some real impact right here in Scotland that can hopefully be scaled globally. We have secured some data sets that we'd welcome event participants to use to show what Scotland can do globally.

So if you have an awesome idea - get a team together and join Space Apps for this 10th event. Check out the challenges here:https://2021.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/

If you need any help - let the team know and we'll sort you out.

Our participation in this event is a direct outcome of theSustainable Space Challenges work which started in 2021 and continues now.

Let the games begin!

The following data sets have been kindly supplied for this event for our participants to utilise:

1. NatureScot Natural Spaces – all NatureScot spatial data, including protected areas, habitats and species, wildness, Dynamic Coasthttps://gateway.snh.gov.uk/natural-spaces/index.jsp
2. Scotland’s Catalogue of Spatial Data SpatialData.gov.scot
3. Processed analysis ready satellite data – Sentinel 1 and 2 available under an Open Government Licence via the CEDA archive
4. Data can be browsed and viewed on Scotland’s environment web - https://map.environment.gov.scot/sewebmap/
5. SLAM-MAP viewer (habitat and land cover data ) - https://www.space-intelligence.com/scotland-landcover/
6. Scottish Remote Sensing Portal - Scottish LiDAR Remote Sensing datasets | Scottish Government
7. Glasgow Open Data Hub- https://data.glasgow.gov.uk/

The datasets would particularly favour teams addressing the below challenges:

LEVERAGING AI/ML FOR PLASTIC MARINE DEBRIS

MEASURING THE VALUE OF EARTH OBSERVATIONS

SEEING THE UNSEEABLE - VIEWING BUGS FROM SPACE

WARNING: THINGS ARE HEATING UP!

A couple of key things to mention:

• Have a look through existing teams here or create your own
• Join our Scottish Slack page here
• We ran a briefing session this week - some summary slides here

Feel free to network and get your ideas rolling.

We are so excited for this event and can't wait to welcome you bright people to the session!