Project Grant NA21OAR0210498
- Coastaloceanvision Inc. received a $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration through the Small Business Innovation Research Program to develop benthic mapping technologies. The two-year award, issued on February 1, 2021, will support Coastaloceanvision's efforts to advance an autonomous underwater vehicle and deep learning software workflow to map geological, biogeochemical, and biodiversity parameters of benthic environments. The Small Business...
- This $150,000 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will support the development of a new smartphone-enabled water quality monitoring data platform by Syntro TEK Corporation. Funded through the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR), the platform aims to advance NOAA's goal of increasing public engagement in environmental research and monitoring. Under the award, Syntro TEK will develop quantitative water test strips fortified with standards, a...
- Geometric Data Analytics Inc. received a $299,804 project grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Small Business Innovation Research Program to develop artificial intelligence capabilities that improve modeling of complex ocean dynamics and assist in logistical management and planning of uncrewed deployment campaigns. Specifically, the awardee will enhance their Float Field Geometric Health software to better predict future positions of floating sensor...
- The Tcarta Marine LLC federal Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program will support $399,126 in optimization of high resolution multispectral satellite imagery collection and multi-sensor integration for through-the-water space-based seafloor imaging. Funded from February 1, 2021 to October 31, 2023, this SBIR Program award under the NOAA aims to advance coastal hydrographic surveying through custom sensor...
- Hydronalix Inc. received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021) to develop NOAA AERIELLE SONAR UAS from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. The SBIR Program seeks to stimulate technological innovation in the private sector to meet federal research and development needs and increase commercialization of innovations. Under this award, Hydronalix Inc. will provide products...
- This $149,800 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will support Maritime Applied Physics Corporation, doing business as Blacksea Technologies, in developing technologies to help protect endangered marine mammals from ship strikes and fishing gear entanglements. Through its Small Business Innovation Research Program, NOAA aims to stimulate technological solutions to federal research needs. Under this award beginning September 2021 and set to conclude in...
- This $299,987 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) will fund the development of "BobbeRone," a low-cost, portable float that uses acoustic sensing to detect regionally important zooplankton, fish, and marine mammals in near real-time. The project aims to provide high-resolution data and coverage needed for biological observation in coastal waters by deploying many BobbeRone floats. The award will support the mentoring of a...
- This $420,000 cooperative agreement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will support the development of modeling capabilities to better understand coastal and ocean systems. Awarded under NOAA's Mission-Related Education Awards program (CFDA 11.008), the funding will be used by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science to explore modeling engines and 3D capabilities to provide infrastructure for coastal and ocean models extending from deep ocean waters through the coastal...
- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $499,955 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Project Grant to develop an Aircraft Detection 360 Camera and Microphone Array. The grant period runs from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. Under the NOAA SBIR Program (CFDA 11.021), which seeks to stimulate technological innovation to meet federal research needs and increase private sector commercialization, the awardee will deliver an aircraft detection system utilizing...
- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $149,882 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Project Grant to the International Association of Virtual Organizations, Incorporated doing business as Iavo Research and Scientific. Under this award, Iavo Research and Scientific will develop and test a custom optical character recognition and text extraction application using OpenCV, Tesseract, and PyTorch. The application aims to improve NOAA's ability to...
This $149,872 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021), aims to develop a community-driven marine coastal data ecosystem. Cell Matrix Corporation will create a participatory sensor network and scalable cloud service to support geospatial object and database queries. A mobile app will motivate mariners to interact and provide timely geospatial feature updates. The viability of an ultra-low-cost marine image sensor unit for identifying and classifying objects will also be investigated. Virginia Tech will study the viability of creating such marine image sensors under a $24,872 sub-award. This award leverages volunteered geographic information to enhance maritime safety and navigation databases through automated analytics on expanded, higher quality datasets.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $149.9k | 8/19/21 |
GrantNumber | Description | Subgrantee | Prime Award | Dollars Obligated | Updated At |
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AYWDG7SIS | Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University | Project Grant NA21OAR0210498 | $30.2k | 2/4/22 |