Technical resources and tools

• To use the power of cloud technology in your project, create a free Azure account
• Join us on Microsoft Teams channel to find a teammate, ask a coach or get useful and updated information-> request access by sending an email to ce@macsimum.no

Microsoft Teams channels:

• General - important information will be posted
• Ask our coaches - feel free to ask coaches your questions
• Discuss challenges - this is your place to discuss challenges
• Participants and teammates - introduce yourself and find new team members
• Selfies - share photos of your team

Datasets, API, other resources

• European Union's Earth observation programme Copernicus
• The World Bank's Climate Change data
• United Nations's International Greenhouse Gas Emissions dataset
• The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Daily Sea Ice Extent Data
• Hardward's Climate Change Tweet IDs
• WorldClim's Historical Weather Data

Data for Society - a central location from which to navigate to open datasets, tools, and frameworks from Microsoft

Includes (but not limited to) datasets/models on:

• Solar farms mapping
• HKH glacier mapping
• Geospatial benchmark datasets such as CDL, Landsat7, and Landsat8
• Chesapeake Land Cover

Technology helpers

We created a customized learning path for those who want to use cloud technologies in their solutions. Join this Skills Challenge to learn about:

• How to deploy your application on Azure
• How to use AI for language processing and computer vision
• How to build sustainable software

Do you also plan to leverage deep learning or computer vision in your solution? In partnership with NVIDIA, we’ve made powerful GPU resources available on Azure for these compute intense scenarios. Learn more by following the two learning paths below co-created with NVIDIA:

• Train compute-intensive models with Azure Machine Learning
• Develop Custom Object Detection Models with NVIDIA and Azure Machine Learning

Got Questions?

• We have a number of coaches who are technical experts in Cloud, Data, AI, Application Development for you to engage at the Microsoft Teams channel.
  Post a question in the Microsoft Teams channel if you need help! To request access, please send an email to ce@macsimum.no 

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