{"id":2389,"date":"2013-07-06T10:22:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T09:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetawelle.de\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2018-04-28T13:58:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T12:58:49","slug":"esa-app-camp-winners-of-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetawelle.de\/?p=2389","title":{"rendered":"ESA App Camp Winners of 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The European Space Agency (ESA)<\/strong> held another successful App Camp 2013<\/strong><\/a> this year in Italy. The team that won this years challenge consists of (From right) Jip van Akker, Erik Unger, Evangelos Georgiou and Ulf K\u00fcssner an won the first prize at the 2013 App Camp. On the far left Thomas Beer, Policy Coordinator in the ESA GMES Space Office.<\/p>\n

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\nSource:<\/strong> ESA, 2013 (http:\/\/spaceinimages.esa.int\/Images\/2013\/06\/App_Camp_winning_team<\/a>)<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n

The team did create a Thermal Guidance System<\/strong> to use satellite data to detect areas of high thermal updraft for aviators. ESA has a detailed report on its Website „App Camp creates new ideas for using satellite data“<\/a> <\/p>\n

In its second year, the App Camp saw 20 developers from 16 countries convene at ESA\u2019s ESRIN centre in Frascati, Italy.<\/p>\n

The goal was to develop mobile applications \u2013 or apps \u2013 using Earth-monitoring data on smartphones, building on the possibilities offered by Europe\u2019s Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As one of last years first prize winners I am happy to see ESA continued with the concept of bringing in mobile experience to generate fresh ideas and concepts. This years categories of challenge were:<\/p>\n