NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS) will be participating in the 2014 International Space Apps Challenge, a global hack-a-thon to build open source solutions to space- and Earth-related needs over the weekend of April 11-13. NASA is organizing the event in collaboration with other government agencies and local organizations. Over the course of 48 hours, teams collaborating in cities and virtually will compete to build the best solutions to one of 40 challenges. Winners from each location will be judged locally; those winners will then be evaluated against each other globally in five categories: Best Use of Hardware, Best Use of Data, Most Inspiring, Galactic Impact, Best Mission Concept.
GIBS is providing three of the challenges for participants to address:
- A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: build a mashup which integrates NASA imagery with data sets of your choice to tell a compelling story and allow others to interactively explore it.
- Animate Your World: build a cloud-free animation, share a satellite story, or knock our socks off! Using the GIBS API, build a web or mobile app which uses NASA imagery to show our planet in motion.
- Image-ine Earth Yesterday and Today: dream big! Considering the imagery that's available now and in the future, sketch out a prototype which uses GIBS to do something new.
We'll be online to answer questions to the above challenges along with participating in person at the Washington, DC / Baltimore location. We hope to see you there or online!