SEPTEMBER 6, 2024 — The U.S. Census Bureau’s Census Open Innovation Labs (COIL) today announced the Phase 1 winners of the Address Geolocation Challenge, a StatVentures challenge designed to improve the way residential addresses are geolocated in remote and rural areas.

StatVentures is a COIL program that aims to identify and integrate new technologies through collaborations with innovators outside government to improve the efficiency, creativity, and effectiveness of data collection.

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.
• CloudRaven Labs
• Engineering Dynamics
• ICasaPR
• InfraMappa, Inc.
• Near Space Labs, Inc.
• SAIC
• Segina & Associates, LLC
• Team Deloitte: Deloitte Consulting LLP & Google

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.

StatVentures is using the first phase of this challenge to encourage participants to propose new concepts that may be used to inform the Census Bureau's methodology and data sources for residential address geolocation.

More information about StatVentures is available at http://coil.census.gov/statventures.

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