GIS and Earth Observation University

Are you a Remote Sensing Expert or GIS Engineer? Have you recently conducted a research and you would like to share your results worldwide?

If this is the case, we welcome you to participate in the 1st Geospatial Blog Article Contest!

Thematic Areas

The topics that are addressed are:
- Remote Sensing in Environment (atmosphere, agriculture, water, land)
- Geoinformation for Blue Economy & Blue Growth
- Urban Remote Sensing
- Land Use / Land Cover
- Remote Sensing for Natural Hazards
- Radar Remote Sensing, Lidar
- Thermal Remote Sensing
- UAV Applications, Integrated UAV systems
- Applications in GIS using Python, R or other programming language
- GIS and Cloud Computing
- Space Engineering

Prizes

Up to 3 (three) articles will be selected by the review committee.

1st Position – 150 € + GEO premium (1 year) + Publicity in our social media accounts + 1st Award Certificate
2nd Position – 50 € + GEO premium (1 year) + Publicity in our social media accounts + 2nd Award Certificate
3rd Position – GEO premium (1 year) + Publicity in our social media accounts + 3rd Award Certificate

Submission

Submissions will be accepted through a GEO University interface (link) and must be received through the online submission site by December 31, 2021.
The final submission upload (Application Document) must contain the following:

- Topic (selection of one or more thematic areas)
- Title (up to 100 characters)
- Keywords (Up to 5 keywords)
- Author (including full name, affiliation details, short bio)
- Blog Article Content (at least 2000 characters , including up to 3 figures)
- References
- Acknowledgements (if applicable)

Application should be submitted in PDF format.

Review Process

All blog articles will be reviewed by a selection committee, scored, and accepted for online publication in our Blog Page. Special consideration will be given to courses that include methods and themes that innovate within the Geospatial domain.

Disclaimers

1. Prize(s). The prize(s) that may be awarded to the eligible winner(s) are not transferable, GEO Premium prize is not redeemable for cash or exchangeable for any other prize. All prizes must be redeemed within 30 days of the contest end date. If a winner cannot be contacted or is disqualified for any reason, GEO University reserves the right to determine an alternate winner or not to award that winner’s prize, in its sole discretion. 

2. Articles. GEO University reserves the right to select and publish in the GEO University Blog page articles that have been successfully submitted, but not awarded.

3. PR, Publicity, Promotion; Use of Personal Information. By participating in a contest, where allowed by law, all participants and winner(s) grant the Company exclusive permission to use their names, characters, photographs, voices, and likenesses in connection with promotion of this and other contests and waive any claims to royalty, right, or remuneration for such use. By participating in the Contest, where allowed by law, participants agree that the Company may disclose personal information obtained from participants in the Contest to third parties and use such information for marketing and other purposes.