Project Grant FA95502410191

This $600,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund collaborative research that investigates cognitive and cooperative sensing and imaging systems for rapid near real-time subsurface infrastructure monitoring and mapping. The key products and services to be delivered include: Development of autonomous mobile ground penetrating radar (GPR) agents with slant scanning and edge-enhanced communication and computing capabilities,...

This three-year, $193,160 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities, under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), supports the development of enhanced processing capabilities for the GMTSAR InSAR software. The University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography will streamline GMTSAR to enable efficient processing of very large Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) data sets in cloud computing environments. Specifically, the...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) Project Grant award to the University of Southern California (USC) in the amount of $599,999 will support the development of novel physics-informed causal deep learning models (PINCER) to capture and predict subsurface flow and transport dynamics. The objective is to advance artificial intelligence (AI) techniques for modeling complex interactions among rocks, fractures, and fluids in subsurface systems, which impact...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $599,989 to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) to develop advanced subsurface sensing systems for real-time infrastructure monitoring and mapping. The 3-year award, effective September 1, 2024, will fund the creation of teams of autonomous ground penetrating radar (GPR) agents equipped with cognitive slant sensing capabilities. The research aims to enable faster and more...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $100,000 Project Grant under the Cooperative Landslide Hazard Mapping and Assessment Program (CFDA 15.821) to the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) to utilize Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) to improve landslide hazard mapping and characterization within two landslide-prone highway corridors in Washington State. The project will be conducted in two phases. In Phase 1, WSDOT will contract with a consultant to acquire...

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the USGS Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808), supports the development of a multiphysics model to simulate flow and thermal processes of a novel 3D heat pulse groundwater flowmeter. The $110,800 award to the Desert Research Institute (DRI) of the Nevada System of Higher Education will fund activities to: 1) provide modeling support for the design of a flow tank to evaluate and validate the 3D...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture, through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) / Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (CFDA 10.212), awarded a $650,000 Project Grant to S4 Mobile Laboratories LLC. The purpose of the award is to extend the generalizability and improve the accuracy and precision of the company's "SubTerra Green" system, a mobile soil laboratory that uses visible/near-infrared spectroscopic probes to...

This two-year, $255,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) will support the development of a new remote sensing technique for measuring seismic waves at Michigan Technological University. The researchers will enhance the Moiré technique, which images patterns from differential motion between grids, by placing one grid on a remote location using an unmanned aerial vehicle and the other within a base telescope. This will enable measurement of...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences provides $611,799 to Oregon State University for acquisition of a seagoing computed tomography scanning system for the Marine Sediment Sampling Facility. The system, a GEOTEK Vertical X-ray CT-scanner, can collect high-resolution 3D images of sediment cores up to 150 cm in length while preserving the sediment-water interface. It has a small footprint allowing deployment aboard vessels in the United States...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $254,707 will fund the development of machine learning and artificial intelligence methods to automate and accelerate the processing of interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) time series data. The grant was awarded to Geolabe LLC on March 1, 2023 under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084). Specifically, the company will work to further automate key sections of the InSAR processing pipeline that...