Earth
Create your solutions to the new 2015 challenges!
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Clean Water Mapping
The challenge is to improve mapping of drinking water resources. This could include development of a crowdsourcing app to monitor and map: potable water availability (well/stream/reservoir levels as measured by local people/ organizations), water quality,
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Crop Alert – Learning From the Growers
Develop a mobile/web app/SMS capability to help growers who face challenges from crop pests and diseases.
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Food Directions
This is a challenge to identify and visualize the current capacity and potential of countries to be self-sufficient in the provision of food for their populations, and to map how current global food needs are met through reliance on international food tra
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Forest Monitor Mapping
This challenge asks you to enable crowdsourced local data to contribute to assessments of land cover change and the contributing factors.
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Leaf Me Alone
Develop a tool to quantify and classify the amount of injury to the individual leaves of ozone-sensitive plants.
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My Sky Color
Create a tool that lets people record the color of the sky using consistent and qualitative standards at a specific location.
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Open-source Air Traffic Tracking
The challenge is to build an open-source air traffic tracking tool that allows users to select a particular flight and see out-the-window or other views of the aircraft and airspace.
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Stream Gazer
Animate or visualize changes in streamflow across the US through time on a GIS layer of the stream and river network.
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Volcanoes, Icebergs, and Cats from Space
We need you to develop an app to crowdsource the discovery of “interesting” natural events as observed from space using data from NASA’s Earth observation satellites