Developing Copernicus startups in Chile

One of the main goals for FMI activities in Chile was to find new partners and spread awareness about Copernicus-based solutions. A key element was to reach new user groups for two-way knowledge and capacity sharing. In September 2021 the Impacto Chile Hackathon was organized in collaboration between many organizations in Chile and Finland, with an open call for innovative solutions to help Chile in key challenges of Air Quality, Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry.

During and after the hackathon, co-creation of sustainable solutions with the participants and promotion of utilizing Copernicus data for their innovations were achieved.  

FMI set up a SmartMet server system with up-to-date Copernicus data from CAMS and C3S for the hackathon. SmartMet server is a data and product server with OGC compliant WMS and powerful timeseries API. SmartMet server for Chile provides access to gridded observation and forecast data, for daily air quality forecasts and monthly bias-adjusted seasonal forecasts, to offer data directly to user groups.  

The three winning teams of the hackathon were invited to Finland where we had workshops dedicated to further co-developing their new service ideas and building partnerships.  The data offered by the SmartMet server was complemented according to the teams requests, including Sentinel-3 NDVI and new CAMS parameters. The collaboration will be continued in 2023 when FMI travel to Chile to meet with the teams and search for new partners.

By clicking here, you can watch the pitches from all teams that participated at the Impacto Chile Hackathon 2021.