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EY Urban Heat Island Challenge

$3 500 USD
Completed (2 months ago)
Earth Observation
Geospatial Analysis
850 joined
181 active
Starti
Dec 12, 25
Closei
Jan 16, 26
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Feb 16, 26
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AJoel
Zindi
Announcing the Winners šŸŽ‰
16 Feb 2026, 13:26 Ā· 2

Hi everyone 👋

We’re pleased to confirm that the full code review for the EY Urban Heat Island Challenge has now been completed. All top teams were:

  • Checked for rule compliance and eligibility
  • Reviewed for data leakage and external data usage
  • Verified for reproducibility

The leaderboard is now officially sealed and your challenge certificates are live - you can download them, share them on LinkedIn, and add them to your CV or portfolio. Well done to everyone who participated - this was a highly competitive and technically strong challenge. Key Takeaways from the Winning Solutions

  • Domain adaptation mattered most - handling cross-city distribution shift was critical.
  • Semi-supervised learning gave strong gains through careful pseudo-label refinement.
  • Feature engineering was decisive, especially spectral indices and multi-scale building features.

Our winners are:

Please do not hesitate to share and discuss your solutions in the chat.

Congratulations again to our winners 🥇🥈 🥉and all participants!

Discussion 2 answers
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Koleshjr
Multimedia university of kenya

Congratulations to all the winners! Can't wait to learn from the winners

16 Feb 2026, 13:42
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Congratulations to all the winners. Thank you to the organizers for hosting a well-run and impactful challenge. I am looking forward to learning from the winning solutions.

17 Feb 2026, 08:12
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