Earsc: ESA releases open data and millions in prize funding

"Earlier this year in February, ESA announced it has adopted an Open Access policy for its content such as still images, videos and selected sets of data.

The new Open Access policy for ESA’s information and data is now in action and aims to facilitate the broadest use and reuse of the material for the general public, media, the educational sector, partners and anybody else seeking to utilise and build upon it.

ESA has decided to release more contents under the Creative Commons IGO licencing scheme, with the Open Access compliant Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO or, in short, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO licence as the standard. Much of this open access geospatial data is now available through open.esa.int.

EUR 1.5 million prize pool for remote sensing

This year’s edition of the Copernicus Masters – Europe’s leading innovation competition for Earth observation (EO) – presents the immense prize pool of more than EUR 1.5 million."