C-CORE and Statoil are offering a $50,000 US prize to whoever can come up with the best way to identify icebergs on satellite images that contain thousands of different objects, or targets. For the Kaggle competition, participants are asked to look at different types of satellite images that include icebergs, ships and other targets, and determine which is which. - Desmond PowerTo spot icebergs, offshore oil companies use satellite images to visually try to differentiate icebergs from other objects in the ocean such as ships. Overwhelming responsePower said when they first decided to go ahead with the Kaggle competition, they didn't expect to get so much interest. Icebergs are cool, satellite images are cool."

Source: CBC News November 19, 2017 16:30 UTC