The winners were selected for exceptional concepts that could ultimately become the next methods and data sources for the Census Bureau.





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Address Geolocation Challenge Phase 1 Winners Announced! [ [link removed] ]





Meet the Phase 1 Winners of the StatVentures Address Geolocation Challenge!

We?re thrilled to announce nine Phase 1 winners of the StatVentures Address Geolocation Challenge [ [link removed] ], a challenge designed to improve the way residential addresses are geolocated in remote and rural areas.

The competition challenged organizations to propose new ways to produce more complete, accurate, timely and granular data on residential addresses in the United States, especially in rural and remote locations.

The winners of the first phase of the competition are:


* Aretec, Inc. [ [link removed] ]
* CloudRaven Labs [ [link removed] ]
* Engineering Dynamics [ [link removed] ]
* iCasaPR [ [link removed] ]
* InfraMappa, Inc. [ [link removed] ]
* Near Space Labs, Inc [ [link removed] ].
* SAIC [ [link removed] ]
* Segina & Associates, LLC [ [link removed] ]
* Team Deloitte: Deloitte Consulting LLP & Google [ [link removed] ]

Nine winners will each receive $11,111 ($100,000 in prizes split evenly across winners) and an invitation to join the StatVentures Phase 2 cohort. Phase 1 winners were selected for their unique approaches that include satellite imagery, Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drones/unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), Light Detection and Ranging (Lidar), artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), computer vision, high-resolution stratospheric imagery, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Global Positioning System (GPS), mobile phone and broadband data, crowdsourcing, and new approaches to human settlement detection.

We couldn't be more excited to see these proposals move toward action.

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