David and Lucile Packard Foundation [to 6 February 2016]
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January 12, 2016
Indonesia Peat Prize Announcement
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, in partnership with the Government of Indonesia, is pleased to announce a new prize competition…

…The “Indonesian Peat Prize” seeks to engage the world’s best scientists and engineers to apply existing and novel technologies to the task of developing more accurate and efficient approaches to mapping peat soils. There is every reason to believe that the application of recent advances in remote sensing technologies and the experience of scientists in related fields such as oil exploration could significantly advance the science of peat mapping. The competition protocol requires that entrants register by May 2016 and develop their approaches by June 2017 using test sites in Indonesia where the extent and depth of peat soils have already been mapped. The approaches will then be demonstrated in August 2017 on a second set of test sites where the entrants don’t have access to the ground-truthed data. Prizes totaling $1 million will be awarded to the wining approaches.

Indonesia’s Geospatial Information Agency and the Packard Foundation are co-hosting the Peat Prize. The competition is being administered by World Resources Institute – Indonesia and Context Partners under the guidance of a Science Advisory Board chaired by Dr. Supiandi Sabiham (Faculty of Agriculture, Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), Indonesia, and Dr. David Schimel (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States). More information about the prize is available here…