##General
1. Hackathon will run in two rounds. In the first round, top 5 best performing candidates (evaluation criteria in Kaggle) meeting all other requirements will be selected and invited to submit their computational notebooks. In the second round, the best (winner) and 2nd best participants will be selected by the review committee based on their computational notebook. Participants that do not reveal their modeling steps or are not able to reproduce results will not be considered for the best price.
2. Hackathons / results need to be submitted via Kaggle.com in a timely manner. Deadlines will be followed strictly in second. Submission outside the deadline will not be considered.
3. Participants will be given a number of covariate layers that they can use to model the target feature (SOC / occurrence of gully erosion), but can also add new layers of choice. Basically participants have complete freedom to choose a modeling framework and add additional covariates, however, results produced need to be reproducible i.e. ALL steps need to be documented in code. The reviewing committee might request to access some additional input data to check that the procedure is correct.
4. Winners of the hackathons will be invited to present their steps during the event at ESRIN (either online or in person).
5. Maximum number of participants in the participating team allowed is: 2.

##Submission Limits
Participants may submit a maximum of 5 entries per day.
Participants may select up to 2 final submissions for judging.

##Competition Timeline
* Start Date: February 2, 2024
* End Date: February 16, 2024