Project Grant 20203361031975

This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop a technological solution called "Ember Intelligence" to detect, track, and forecast ember movement during wildfires using drone-mounted infrared sensors, edge computing, and artificial intelligence. The $250,000 award to the University of Illinois will fund the creation of a distributed system for real-time data collection and spatiotemporal modeling of...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service under the State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance program (CFDA 10.698) provides $244,020.00 to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to support wildfire fighting and prevention efforts. The funding will be used to purchase two trailers to support aerial ignition unmanned aerial systems, along with supporting equipment and generators. It will also fund the hiring of a term-limited employee to...

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 $499,512 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Joint Fire Science Program (CFDA 15.232) will support a research project at Utah State University (USU) to assess the efficacy of prescribed burning in mitigating carbon loss from poorly drained soils in response to severe wildfires. The project aims to: Compare vegetation characteristics and fuel loads between sites with and without prescribed burning using remote sensing and laser scanning; Quantify how...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The award will support development of a closed-loop sensing, modeling, and communications system to aid in wildfire detection, mapping, and prediction from July 2022 through June 2025. The system aims to leverage detailed 3D environmental models incorporating fuel, terrain, weather and other...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources received a $450,000 project grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service under the State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance federal grant program (CFDA 10.698). The grant will support the "WILDFIRE RISK REDUCTION: ENHANCING THE NORTHEAST WILDFIRE RISK ASSESSMENT - INCORPORATING SMALL-SCALES FIRES" project from June 2022 through December 2023. The project aims to enhance wildfire risk assessment in the...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region, under the Joint Fire Science Program (CFDA 15.232), provides $629,326 to study the water quality impacts of prescribed fire in western US conifer forests. The project aims to address uncertainties around how prescribed fire usage for forest restoration, in response to increasing wildfire size and severity due to climate change, may affect water quality. The study will examine...

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources received a $300,000 Project Grant award from the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service on August 13, 2021 to undertake wildfire risk reduction efforts through June 30, 2024. The grant was awarded under the State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance program (CFDA 10.698), which aims to assist states in controlling and preventing rural and non-federal forest fires. With this funding, the Maryland DNR will work to reduce hazardous...

This $429,216 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management under the Joint Fire Science Program (CFDA 15.232) aims to investigate how previous managed wildfires influenced the extent, severity, and management tactics used on recent uncontrolled wildfires in the southern Sierra Nevada. The project has six key objectives: (1) identify the environmental factors that led to recent wildfires either burning over or stopping at the boundaries of...

This $624,309 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management under the Joint Fire Science Program (CFDA 15.232) will support Oklahoma State University in evaluating the long-term effectiveness of prescribed fires in reducing hazardous fuel accumulation and wildfire risks across Oklahoma's grasslands. The key products and services to be delivered include: Determining post-prescribed fire vegetation growth and fuel accumulation rates at five long-term...