The Copernicus Masters – the European Earth Monitoring Competition is awarding prizes to innovative solutions for business and society based on EO data. Participants can choose from a total of nine Challenges covering topics such as environmental monitoring, cloud computing, and mobile services, along with the innovative use of radar and VHR satellite imagery. The competition is directed towards developers, entrepreneurs, SMEs, and students. Applicants can compete for their share of this year's EUR 350,000 prize pool until 15 September. Adding to cash prizes, prizes include support for the commercial realisation of the winning ideas and data access. Started in 2011 by ESA, the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, the DLR German Aerospace Center, and T-Systems GmbH, the competition is also supported by the European Commission, European Space Imaging GmbH, Astrium Services, the BMW Group research and technology, and GEO magazine.

1. THE EUROPEAN EARTH MONITORING
COMPETITION
1 June – 15 September 2013
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2. THE ORGANISER
Anwendungszentrum GmbH Oberfaffenhofen (AZO)
› Organiser of the Copernicus Masters and the European Satellite Navigation
Competition
› Scouts the best business ideas via innovation competitions for earth
monitoring applications and satellite navigation
Services
› Drives innovation & incubation in the commercial use of space technologies
& infrastructures
› Supports formations of space related companies in the ESA BIC Bavaria
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3. COPERNICUS MASTERS
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4. PARTNER 2013
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5. GET STARTED
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Target groups:
SMEs, students, researchers, entrepreneurs, start-up companies...

6. GET STARTED
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7. CHALLENGES 2013
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Focus: Invites participants to reveal and illustrate humenkind’s
footprint on our planet
Prize: Publication, VIP invitation to a 2014 Sentinel satellite
launch at Kourou Space Port in French Guiana
Focus: Seeks profiles of existing Earth observation services
Prize: Promotion, publication, satellite data (worth EUR 40,000)
Focus: Awards the best idea for an innovative commercial use
of Copernicus
Prize: Cash prize (EUR 10,000), possible incubation in one of
the seven ESA BICs

8. THE CHALLENGES
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Focus: Searches for application ideas for using Copernicus on
mobile devices
Prize: Cash prize (EUR 10,000), possible incubation further in
one of the seven ESA BICs
Focus: Is looking for applications, addressing the mapping of the
environment and climate
Prize: Voucher for a workshop or initial coaching
Focus: Rewards solutions that use the cloud computing model
IaaS to provide EO data on demand
Prize: Technical support

9. THE CHALLENGES
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Focus: Awards the application idea that best uses the most
advanced VHR satellite data
Prize: Data package worth up to EUR 20,000
Focus: Encourages the development of new applications using
radar satellite data
Prize: Data package worth EUR 25,000
Focus: Seeks new in-vehicle services based on EO data and
crowd-sourced car data
Prize : Cash prize worth EUR 5,000, networking opportunities
with BMW

10. GET STARTED
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11. PRIZE POOL
Copernicus Masters
› Cash prize worth 20,000
› Satellite data worth EUR
60,000
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12. APPLICATION FIELDS
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13. GET INSPIRED
Trend topic: Crowd-Sourcing
Cerberus:
› Copernicus Master 2012 – Crowdsourcing and
eLearning platform
› “serious game” in which participants can mark
cracks in ice, damaged power cables, areas of
drought, and other anomalies on satellite
images.
› Following verification, user input is converted
into digital maps that can then be employed
by governments and other interest groups.
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ASIGN / GEO PICTURES:
› Winner of ESA App Challenge 2012 –
Crowdsourced, in-situ visual Copernicus
validation.
› The smartphone app captures and sends
reliably geo-tagged and time-stamped images
to UNOSAT at CERN to verify radar images.

14. CONTACT
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Lara Schaflinger
Anwendungszentrum GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen
Lara.schaflinger@anwendungszentrum.de
www.copernicus-masters.com
www.anwendungszentrum.de