NASA and the SETI Institute kicked off the FDL 2021 Bootcamp on 6/16/21 to initiate an intensive, 8 week research sprint starting on June 21st and running until August 13th. During this time, FDL participants will be grouped into challenge teams which will tackle scientific problems that could be solved or advanced by artificial intelligence (AI) tools and techniques. NASA will sponsor an Earth science-focused challenge to automate the reporting of natural events using NASA’s satellite imagery and metadata. The team is composed of FDL mentors, subject matter experts from the public and private sector and computer scientists aiming to pull together remote sensing imagery, natural event metadata, and other ancillary descriptive material to construct a brief narrative describing the natural events shown in the imagery. The final showcase will be held on 8/13/21.
