Rocket City (Huntsville, AL)

WINNERS

CHALLENGE

We’ve seen first-hand the deadly results of floods. The challenge is knowing where and when exactly the floods will take place and staying in front of the impending natural disaster. With no controlling mother nature, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and City of Huntsville are sponsoring the opportunity for anyone to come make a real difference. Once the flooding does take place, it is imperative that all departments, from public safety, transportation & FEMA, have enough resources on hand and the right information to act in real-time.

We are looking for multifunctional solutions – that is, solutions that solve more than one problem at a time. The solutions will bring together multiple stakeholders and will most likely be a mix of technology, business, behavioral change and design thinking.

Here are some ideas for the challenge:

1. Identify at risk populations; i.e. number of homes, schools, emergency response centers and industrial hazards dynamically as reporting indicates risk or threat.
2. Develop an application that has the capability to automate location information and the status of the user/family/Emergency Responder during the flood event with a hyper-local focus, potentially to include:
3. an option of picture capability
4. backend export capability to a standard format, shapefile or KML.
5. Push Community Collaboration. Develop a capability that could push an alert/application download announcement based on proximity and identified risk.
6. Push Leadership Involvement. Develop a capability that autonomously pushes the number of potential people in need of evacuation and can represent those numbers geospatially in near-real-time.
7. Georectify social media, UAV or satellite imagery on a standard map interface (google maps, carto, open street etc).

PRIZES

JUDGES

SPONSORS

RULES & INFORMATION

GENERAL RULES

• A max of 5 people per team will be enforced.
• All participants must be in the building for kick-off and demos.
• All code must be fresh.
• Participants must provide their own laptops, and mobile/tablet devices for use during the event.
• Seats are limited to 100 workstations.
• Come on your own or create a team. We also want to encourage collaboration among attendees so if you find a team or person with a valuable asset to support your idea/concept, feel free to team up when you arrive.
• External hard drives are permitted for the hacking event itself. If you want a power strip bring it!
• As much as we appreciate people’s interest, no one will be allowed inside the event other than participants, sponsor representatives, subject matter experts and invited media. No spectators please!

JUDGING CRITERIA

Projects will be judged based on the following criteria:

• Impact: How impactful will this solution be for it’s target audience? Is it scalable?
• Creativity: How original is this solution?
• Design: How well designed is this solution, from front end through to UI/UX?
• Execution: How well executed is this solution from start to finish?

TOOLS, DATA, AND IP RIGHTS

Participants are allowed to use the open source tools provided by NGA’s GitHub site in addition to other commercially known open source tools. Participants are also encouraged to use their own proprietary solutions to develop creative and efficient products. If you are representing a company, your company’s proprietary software assets are also allowed to be used with the appropriate permission within your organization. Please reference the Terms and Conditions data to confirm that all IP rights remain with the participant and/or the organization they are representing.

All participants must agree to the terms and conditions.

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