GRAVITY 01 WINNERS

Awardees for the individual Challenge categories

IAG

Challenge: Change detection as a service
Winning Innovator: Mapizy
Solution: Mapizy developed an innovative, cost-effective solution that can detect(changes in) building footprints in an automated way, using deep learning technology.The solution’s applications include independent insurance cover assessments, damage assessment of buildings during natural disasters and risk detection.

NT Government

Challenge: How can satellites improve the health of Territorians in the dry and wet seasons?
Winning Innovator: Innovator: Frazer - Nash Consultancy (The end is Insight) Solution: Frazer - Nash Consultancy provided a cloud-based solution to help NT Health identify those areas where significant parts of the population could be adversely affected either by mould or by bushfire smoke inhalation.

OZ Minerals

Challenge: Alternative methods for non - invasive subsurface mineral composition data Winning Innovator: Lux Aerobot
Solution: Lux proposed a non - invasive solution that combined the delivery of a fleet of stratospheric balloons that capture near real - time high - resolution images of the ground with machine learning capabilities to derive the information required on geophysics and where to drill next.

RAA

Challenge: Value my property
Winning Innovator: Mapizy
Solution: Mapizy developed an innovative, cost - effective solution that can detect(changes in) building footprints in an automated way, using deep learning technology.The solution’s applications include independent insurance cover assessments, damage assessment of buildings during natural disasters and risk detection.

SA Power Networks

Challenge: An eye from the sky and powerlines Winning Innovator: Ozius
Solution: Ozius proposes an AI-enabled analytics solution, enabling a full vegetation growth risk analysis, which dramatically reducing inspection costs and environmental risks.

SA Power Networks

Challenge: An eye from the sky and powerlines Winning Innovator: Spiral Blue
Solution: Developing Line of Insight, a solution that provides daily forecasts on fire risk along network infrastructure by integrating near real - time high - resolution data from Internet of Things devices, Earth observation satellites, and weather bureaus. This improves network reliability and enables the development of more affordable, effective, and safe vegetation management plans.

SA Power Networks

Challenge: An eye from the sky and powerlines Winning Innovator: Enter Space
Solution: Offered a 4 - pronged approach to address the issues that affect South Australia’s power networks.From Machine Learning that detects high risk vegetation from satellite imagery, through using drone technology for visual and thermal imaging of difficult to access locations to IoT devices used for finding fault location in real - time.

The University of Adelaide

Challenge: Manufacturing of Tablets in Space Winning Innovator: ResearchSat
Solution: As a space - med start - up, ResearchSat strategized a five - year plan to develop an encapsulation manufacturing unit for use in Space – identifying a multi - phased approach to achieve this, also identifying potential applications in Precision Medicine, Agriculture and the Food industry.

Westpac

Challenge: We’re here to Help our farmers Winning Innovator: Agtuary

Solution: Data Dingoes proposed an analytics platform that uses emerging technologies, satellite images and environmental data to provide environmental intelligence to agri - businesses and financial institutions.The platform empowers agri - business decision makers to tackle immediate issues, inform long - term strategy and accelerate industry growth.

Airservices

Challenge: Understanding the impact of weather patterns to better predict the impact in locations with high density air transport operations

Winning Innovator: Lux Aerobot

All of these solutions showcase what is possible when industry leaders and entrepreneurs come together to collaborate to solve real world problems. catalyse change within the global community. Their innovative utilisation of space capabilities and data will help accelerate Australia’s space economy and we would like to acknowledge each team for their incredible accomplishments again!

Awardees in the three main award categories

Meteor Award 

Most innovative use of space capability Winner: Spiral Blue
Solution:

• Line of Insight provides daily forecasts on fire risks along network infrastructure by integrating near real-time high resolution data from:

  • Satellite-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) devices providing local meteorological and visible data on the ground;

  • Geospatial data from Synthetic Aperture Radar and Multispectral satellites;

  • Bureau of Meteorology data.

• These data sources will be processed by the cloud-based data fusion engine. This engine will use machine learning methods to augment existing fire suppression models and bushfire mitigation cost benefit analyses. This will help SA Power determine when and where vegetation needs to be inspected and when and where fire protection measures need to be activated.

Galaxy Award 

Most innovative use of space data
Winner: Frazer-Nash Consultancy
Solution:

• This proposal provides a cloud-based solution to help NT Health identify areas where significant parts of the population could be adversely affected either by mould or by bushfire smoke inhalation.

• This information would then allow NT Health to take steps to mitigate the impact of the adverse conditions and direct resources and provide support to those areas likely to be affected.

• Such support should assist the reduction of costly hospital admissions around periods of significant mould growth or bushfire smoke.

• Ideally, the cloud-based solution would be supported by a network of satellite-connected ground stations in remote communities that would be able to provide the latest information on risks and mitigations in extreme weather or bushfire situations. The solution will also assist in evidence and knowledge-based management of health facilities to counter an otherwise undiagnosed increase in demand/burden for asthma support.

• This team also created an algorithm to predict mould before it can be seen by the naked eye.

Supernova Award 

Greatest social impact award
Winner: Aerospace Systems (Data Dingoes) Solution:

• This solution aims to unite both the financial and producing sides of agribusiness.

• Using new and emerging technologies, hyperspectral satellite imagery and environmental data, we can empower agribusiness decision makers to tackle immediate issues, inform long-term strategy and accelerate industry growth.

• The Information-as-a-Service platform measures changes imperceptible to the human eye using the cutting-edge analytics of satellite imagery.

• It provides both farmers and financial institutions information about growth cycles, yield estimates and the potential of the land to enable rapid and early responses to crop stress and enable efficient use of resources. The analytics platform enables regular insights into farm growth and change patterns, yield forecasting, climatic conditions, crop stress and health and much more to identify problems and generate predictive estimates on the paddock, state or continental scales.