Project Grant 20213361034691

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 federal Project Grant award of $650,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program supports the development of the GeoFire Real-Time Wildfire Alert System (WAS) by Micro-Precision Technologies, Inc. This technology uses a high-density sensor network to track the location and growth of individual wildfire cells in real-time, providing early detection and accurate tracking of wildfires. The...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems provides $284,564 to develop an advanced optical sensor using background-oriented schlieren tomography to characterize wildfire dynamics. Funded under the NSF Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), the research aims to perform time-resolved, volumetric measurements of wildfire combustion processes through a physics-informed closure for tomographic reconstruction. The...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation supports research into wildland fire observation, management, and evacuation systems. With $144,967 in funding, the award will develop intelligent collaborative flying and ground systems to aid in monitoring, responding to, and evacuating areas threatened by wildfires. The awardee is the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, operating through its National Center for Atmospheric Research facility in Boulder, Colorado....

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 SBIR Phase II Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) provides $955,736 to Helios Pompano Inc., a minority-owned and Hispanic American-owned small business, to develop an innovative system for the rapid detection and verification of high-risk lightning strikes that can initiate wildfires. The project aims to create a ground-based system using extremely low frequency (ELF) lightning...

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) awarded a $305,260 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program to Access Sensor Technologies LLC, a small business located in Fort Collins, Colorado. The grant funds the development and commercialization of the AIRPEN, a wearable device that can rapidly and accurately characterize exposures to particulate matter (PM) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the wake of...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award to George Washington University is focused on developing and demonstrating applications for a standoff, laser-based, fire radiometer instrument. The $430,169 grant, awarded on June 1, 2024, aims to address data deficiencies for two challenging problems associated with climate change: wildfire monitoring and industrial flare characterization. The project plan involves constructing two laser heterodyne...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award, totaling $126,709, is focused on assessing air quality during wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires in Southern California. The project aims to sample and analyze air pollutants emitted from structure fires at the WUI, quantifying the contribution of these fires to hazardous air pollutant concentrations in the Los Angeles region. The results will inform disaster response policies, ecosystem health risk...

This National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 Engineering) Project Grant award totaling $400,000 aims to develop a network of chemical sensors that can continuously monitor outdoor air for carcinogenic volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as benzene, toluene, and xylene. The University of California, Davis will lead this 3-year effort to assemble a sensor network that can detect and quantify targeted VOC levels, with data relayed to a cloud platform for analysis. The team will first test...