RAFT LLC — Department of Defense STTR Phase I: AF21A-TCSO1

RAFT LLC — STTR Phase I award from Department of Defense.

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Amount
$49,999
Agency
Department of Defense · Air Force
Program / Phase
STTR · Phase I
Topic
AF21A-TCSO1
Solicitation
X21.A
NAICS
Place of performance
VA
Period
2021-04-12 → 2021-07-19

Description

Raft will develop an automated infrastructure to evaluate computer vision algorithm performance with low sample sizes of electro-optical (EO) imagery. Raft will select the dataset from DigitalGlobe available to the Air Force as well as OpenMapTiles. We will build data sets with varying characteristics and e.g. geographic diversity and object size. We will make conduct our analysis using the tools available on GeoInt.