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ShrubWISE Data Challenge

  • by Oscar Garcia Companys

The Wildfire Science & Technology Commons is hosting the ShrubWISE Data Challenge, an open competition focused on improving high-resolution mapping of shrub ecosystems using geospatial data and machine learning. The challenge invites researchers, students, and data scientists to develop workflows that can map shrub cover and height at ~1-meter resolution—information that is critical for understanding fuels, wildfire behavior, and ecosystem dynamics.

The competition runs from February 19 to April 19, 2026, with results announced on May 1, 2026.

Participants will work through a series of collaborative modeling “sprints” using shared datasets and tools, contributing to open science efforts aimed at improving vegetation mapping and wildfire research.

Learn more and register:
https://www.wildfirecommons.org/shrubwise-data-challenge