ABOUT
The Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation (AGO) Analytics Lab Program (AGO Labs), coordinated through FrontierSI, is investigating a number of ways to better engage and work with industry. Specifically, the AGO is keen to attract a wider pool of companies and technologies to draw on for automated geospatial intelligence. The primary focus of this program is to address AGO capability challenges through a small number of short-term industry projects, with a focus on machine learning and analytics for producing automated imagery analysis, including automated object classification.
AGO LABS NEW CHALLENGE CALL: JUNE 2024
What is AGO Analytics Labs?
AGO Labs is a way for AGO to rapidly assess new technology capability through a challenge-based innovation program. From this process, learnings can be gathered about the barriers and opportunities for AGO to work with an increased breadth of companies. In turn, this could lead to a long-term mechanism for AGO to access, and provide, a pipeline of activities to industry for testing new innovations and thinking in analytics.
Initial successful projects will be funded up to $100,000 for Proof-of-Concept projects for projects up to four months in length. An additional $50,000 and 3 months may be provided to some projects to undertake limited operational testing, though this process will be considered as a stage gate at the end of the Proof of Concept, and the focus on the Call for Proposals should focus on the Proof-of-Concept stage, rather than the operational testing stage.
The Challenge Topic is briefly described below. It is recommended that organisations read the full description of the challenge topic to understand the background, use cases and evaluation criteria for each of the challenge topics. Further information is given in Appendix A of this document. All details on the AGO Analytics Labs June 2024 Challenge Call are available here.
AGO Analytics Labs June 2024 Challenge Call
The following two challenge topics are available for consideration in this challenge call. A full outline of each question is available in Appendix I of this document.
Hidden Waves
This challenge aims to find the location of internal waves in the ocean – where they occur over time and in near-real time. The aim is to create a process that automatically identifies internal waves.
Depths of the Deep Blue Sea
This challenge aims to modernise the process and enrich the data used to understand the water column.
Proof-of-Concept projects will be funded with a budget of up to $100,000, and are to be completed within four months.
Please see here for full details of challenge calls, relevant data, project deliverables and budget, proposal evaluation criteria, Intellectual Property conditions, and constraints and requirements.
Submitting proposals for the AGO Analytics Labs June 2024 Challenge Call
Interested parties may submit an AGO Labs project proposal by completing a short proposal, completing the template provided below and emailing to the FrontierSI AGO Labs Project Manager, Roshni Sharma, at agolabs@frontiersi.com.au by 10:00 am (AEST), Monday 8 July 2024.
No extensions of time will be granted.
It is encouraged for interested parties to review the full description of the challenge topic to understand background, use cases and evaluation criteria for each of the challenge topics, as well as recommended open data sources that can be used to help prepare scope and project approach for submissions. For full details, please review the AGO Analytics Labs June 2024 Challenge Call Briefing Document pdf below (see ‘Supporting Documents’).
Additional questions can be directed to FrontierSI at agolabs@frontiersi.com.au.
Information Webinar for the AGO Analytics Labs June 2024 Challenge Call
A public information session webinar was held on Wednesday 26 June 2024 at 10:00 am (AEST), including a presentation of the aims of the AGO Labs program, as well as interactive Q&A with AGO and FrontierSI representatives. You can view the slide deck presented at this webinar here and view the recording below.
Supporting Documents
AGO Analytics Labs June 2024 Media Release
AGO Analytics Labs June 2024 Challenge Call Briefing Document
