# adapt

**Repository Path**: mirrors_Kitware/adapt

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: adapt
- **Description**: An open source platform for deploying state of the art deep-neural-network computer vision in real time on small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS)
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Apache-2.0
- **Default Branch**: main
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2021-08-08
- **Last Updated**: 2026-03-21

## Categories & Tags

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## README

# ADAPT Multi-Mission Payload

### An open source platform for deploying state of the art deep-neural-network computer vision in real time on small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS).

![Payload CAD Rendering](docs/img/adapt_payload_assembly.png)
![sUAS](docs/img/snow_img.png)

* Optimized drone-based collection of imagery and geospatial metadata with live feedback to maintain quality control.

* Integration with the open source do-it-yourself AI toolkit [VIAME](https://www.viametoolkit.org/) to annotate data and train mission-specific image-processing models.

* Upload your models for aerial deployment with real-time, georegistered analytics wirelessly transmitted to a ground station computer and beyond for rapid dissemination.

* Commodity [hardware components](https://kitware.github.io/adapt/parts), [CAD models](https://github.com/Kitware/adapt/tree/main/cad), and [open-source software](https://gitlab.kitware.com/adapt/adapt_ros_ws) allows organizations to cheaply and easily build their own payloads

## Supports a variety of unique missions

* [Sea and River Ice Monitoring](https://kitware.github.io/adapt/ice_monitor)
* [Monitoring Arctic Mammal Populations](https://kitware.github.io/adapt/ice_seal)
* [Person Search and Rescue](https://kitware.github.io/adapt/search_and_rescue)
* [Wild Fire Monitoring](https://kitware.github.io/adapt/fire_monitoring)
* [Coastline Erosion Monitoring](https://kitware.github.io/adapt/coastline_monitoring)

Ongoing work on the ADAPT project is funded by [NOAA](https://www.noaa.gov/) to support [key missions](https://uas.noaa.gov/Portals/5/Docs/NOAA%20UAS%20Program%20Overview%2019Apr2019.pdf?ver=2019-04-22-144716-137).

## Source Code
The ADAPT payload source code is hosted here: [https://gitlab.kitware.com/adapt/adapt_ros_ws](https://gitlab.kitware.com/adapt/adapt_ros_ws) or
[Try the simulator with docker](https://gitlab.kitware.com/adapt/adapt/-/tree/master/AirSim). Please use the Issue Tracker on Gitlab or contact us [here](https://kitware.github.io/adapt/contact/).

## License
This repository is under the Apache 2.0 license, see NOTICE and LICENSE file.

## Documentation
Documentation: [https://kitware.github.io/adapt/](https://kitware.github.io/adapt/)

## Events
* [Kitware and ACUASI September 2021 data collection in Fairbanks Alaska](https://kitware.github.io/adapt/sept_2021_collects).
* [The 3rd NOAA Workshop on Leveraging AI in Environmental Sciences](https://2021noaaaiworkshop.sched.com/info)

## Papers / Presentations
* (2022) National Innovation Center Seminar: [Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Z0FEdAjt3vTNZYKwsOXEP_GBd8f6RWV7H0KD1kT_Cfg/edit?usp=sharing)

* (2022) Ocean Sciences Meeting: [Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15Ib9vKES6aAzlCuejUdRuDkyPnBcADa_OHr9GyepWBY/edit?usp=sharing)

* (2022) 1st International Workshop on Practical Deep Learning in the Wild at AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence: [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.10366)

* (2021) NOAA Innovators Series: [Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Bp65DTJMgateIyRNzrCvjfHrLshqS3AUaba3lLGbTts/edit?usp=sharing), [Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD95Di6B5wo&t=1735s)
* (2021) The 3rd NOAA Workshop on Leveraging AI in Environmental Sciences: [Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PMgJrYxrqMtuJYR-xiAdFsjSSQt90_XOcYZ5pRXP4sk/edit#slide=id.p), [Recording](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BI0qeIOw7TK262lNJzK_m3XIJd-RSvQn/view?usp=sharing)

## Site
For more information go to [https://kitware.github.io/adapt/](https://kitware.github.io/adapt/)