Two affiliates of Bahrain’s National Space Science Agency (NSSA) shined in the Microsoft Energy Core AI Academy Hackathon, Hydrocarbon Release and Its Environmental Impact.
During the hackathon, in which world companies, research centres, space agencies and higher education institutions from various countries took part, NSSA’s affiliates, Aysha Al Haram and Ahmed Bushlaibi, along with their team members from the Khalifa University, clinched the third position during the global competition for finding new ways to harness machine learning techniques to identify methane emissions and leaks from satellite remote sensing data .