Planet API Shines at Georgia Tech Hackathon
By the Lubna Zubair, a student organizer of the AeroHacks Hackathon
Georgia Tech held our inaugural aerospace engineering themed hackathon- AeroHacks on Nov 5–6. We had 103 Georgia Tech students participate, work through the night on projects from drones which followed people, to parametric wing design and modelling, to a barn door star tracker. At the end of the event on Sunday, 20 teams presented to a group of sponsor judges in an interactive expo.
The judges awarded the 1st place prize to a Super Solar — a group who used the Planet API to obtain satellite data to calculate the amount of solar energy over an area of land and compare it to another location. This team which consisted of an aerospace engineering major, computer science major, and chemical engineering major built and demoed an interactive GUI using Python, Gtk, and Matlab to demonstrate their analysis.
The second place team PlaNET — used the Planet API to access satellite images and geospatial data to compare anomalies to an area surveyed by a camera attached to a drone. This team demonstrated their hack by surveying an area of Georgia Tech’s campus.
Portfolios for all the team submissions as well as a list of the winners can be found on our website at www.aerohacks.ae.gatech.edu.
We had a great time seeing what the teams created at our first event and would like to thank all our sponsors.
