A project to secure the future of food security
An Emirati team qualifies for the finals of the NASA Space Applications Challenge
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The International Society of Electrical and Electronics Engineers announced today the qualification of an Emirati team to compete for the first place in the world in the activities of the NASA Space Applications Challenge, with a project to secure the future of food security, among 4,500 participants in the challenge activities, representing 160 countries around the world.
During a press meeting held in Dubai this evening, on the sidelines of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things IEEE GCAIot 2021 in its fifth session under the slogan "Societal Effects of Digital Transformation", the association indicated that the qualification of the Emirati team comes first for Arab countries within the sessions of the NASA International Challenge for Applications The event was held in the UAE in cooperation with NASA, and with the participation of teams from 6 emirates, including a number of universities, including the University of Dubai and the University of Sharjah.
Issa Al Bastaki, President of the University of Dubai, said, "The qualification of the Emirati team in the NASA International Challenge for Space Applications comes within the framework of the local market's distinction as an incubator for innovative ideas in the entrepreneurship sector, and in various fields of technology," noting that "the Emirati team qualified For this stage, it comes as the first qualification for a team from an Arab country in the Challenge Courses for Space Applications in all its versions, despite the fact that the UAE participates for the second time only in the challenge activities.
The Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the NASA Hackathon for Space Applications in the UAE, Engineer Mohamed Abboud, said, "The Emirati Locust Locator team, which reached the qualification stage for the first place in the competition, consists of 4 contestants, and their main idea is to create a tool to reduce the impact of locusts in the Middle East and Africa using satellite data. Industrial and machine learning systems by predicting the evolution and movement of locust swarms and ways to optimally manage the response.
He added, "The idea of the Emirati team's project came after a careful study that monitored the spread of large numbers of locust swarms in the Middle East, Africa and West Asia regions due to climatic fluctuations and changes in the regularity of weather conditions, which resulted in locust breeding after fluctuations in drought and humidity rates, and thus the impact negative impact on agricultural crops and the future of food security.
He pointed out that "the qualification of a team from the Emirates comes by participating in the second edition of the NASA Space Applications Challenge, which is in line with the UAE's vision to support the knowledge economy and enhance the participation of young cadres in various fields of technological development."
It should be noted that the challenge aims to contribute to the realization of the national space strategy in the UAE through various programs to spread awareness about the importance of space sciences, find radical solutions to the challenges facing the process of Earth and space exploration, and create a system of development programs to build human capabilities in the field of space technologies and exploration and participate in creating Creative solutions to current challenges.
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