Gurgaon based Blue Sky Analytics won the Copernicus Masters Award
The Gurgaon based tech startup ‘Blue Sky Analytics’ won the Copernicus Masters Award, also dubbed as ‘Space Oscars award’ for its AI (Artificial Intelligence) based application to monitor and measure stubble burning and farm fires in India.
The AI-enabled application that uses satellite-based data for monitoring is named Zuri. The Copernicus Masters Award started in 2011, is given by the Earth Observatory program under the European Commission in partnership with the European Space Agency(ESA).
Seven groups got the prize under different categories, Gurgaon based Blue Sky Analytic’s Zuri was selected under the social entrepreneurship category.