Project Grant 1738448

The Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $650,000 Project Grant to Agrofocal Technologies, Inc. under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (CFDA 10.212). The funding supports the development of Agrofocal's real-time crop monitoring system that can be mounted on any vehicle to provide high-resolution, under-the-canopy images of crops. This system enables farmers to monitor crop health,...

This $124,791 federal Project Grant awarded on July 1, 2024 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.212 - Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program) to Near Space Labs Inc. is funding the design, prototyping and testing of a lightweight, high-resolution optical telescope system capable of providing 2-4 inch aerial imagery of rural properties from stratospheric balloons at 60,000 ft....

Application Insight, LLC was awarded a $649,693 Project Grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (CFDA 10.212) to develop a high pressure chemical delivery system for aerial application platforms from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2024. The SBIR/STTR programs are intended to support technological innovation through the investment of...

Skyward LTD received a $174,998 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop an edge-computing device and machine learning algorithms to process aerial imagery of wildfires in real time. The SBIR program aims to support technological innovation through the investment of federal research funds. Under this award, Skyward will benchmark hardware, software, and machine learning...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Institute of Food Production and Sustainability (CFDA 10.212 - Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program) will develop a plant-by-plant, precision fertilization capability for cool season vegetable crops. The $600,000 award to Geovisual Technologies Inc. aims to increase harvest yields while reducing overall fertilizer application through innovative precision targeting...

Agriculture Intelligence Inc., a spinoff company of the University of Florida, has received a $650,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program grant from the Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.212) to integrate its Agroview and Agrosense technologies into a "Smart Nutrient" precision nutrient management system for tree crops. Agroview provides accurate zone-based fertility and...

This Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.310 - Agriculture and Food Research Initiative) provides $728,000 to leverage generative AI to develop and deploy customizable aerial robots for multi-scale and multi-type field data collection in agricultural settings. The project aims to enable real-time data processing and analytics to offer on-demand crop information to stakeholders, focusing on applications such as...

Field Data Services LLC was awarded a $165,685 Project Grant from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (CFDA 10.212). The funding will support a Phase I SBIR project to determine the technical feasibility of using newly available light detection and ranging (LiDAR) on a chip technology to detect insect pollinators and characterize...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 10.212) supports the development of an autonomous, mobile crop monitoring system for vertical farms. The $174,980 award to Acreage Farms LLC will fund the build and integration of two 3D monitoring systems to collect environmental data, provide analytics, and enable farm control capabilities. This technology aims to...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program provides $649,954 to Intelligent Fiber Optic Systems Corporation (Ifos) to develop a scalable, multi-functional, distributed fiber-optic sensor network for precision greenhouse monitoring applications. The goal is to create a sensor system capable of quasi-distributed...