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...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $349,980 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program grant to Upstream PBC, a for-profit small business, to expand their HydroForecast seasonal prototype. The project aims to improve the methodology and data used for generating weather forecast inputs, integrate a new weather forecasting source to enhance accuracy at longer lead times, and benchmark performance in critical basins to benefit customers and society. This...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $149,913 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Project Grant to Arete Associates of Northridge, California. The grant period runs from September 1, 2021 through February 28, 2022 to support infrared polarimetric wave imaging (I-PWI) for passive remote sensing of sea state. The NOAA SBIR Program seeks to stimulate technological innovation in the private sector to meet federal research needs and increase...
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...
Acme Atronomatic, LLC will develop an orbital data platform to improve wildfire resilience through a $300,000 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Small Business Innovation Research Program Project Grant awarded September 1, 2022 for completion by February 28, 2023. Leveraging hyperspectral measurements from its CubeSats, Acme will generate dynamic wildfire risk maps at relevant spatial and temporal scales to clarify resilience tradeoffs for stakeholders. The AI-enhanced data from...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $1,950,000 Project Grant under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021) to Ensemble Government Services, LLC. The grant funding will support the development of an analytics service to make NOAA's Whole Atmosphere Model-Ionosphere Plasmasphere Electrodynamics (WAM-IPE) model more accessible and useful for satellite operators and space situational awareness providers. The project aims to enhance...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded Airmettle Inc. a $300,000 Project Grant under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021) to explore integrating in-situ analysis capabilities for multi-dimensional data stored in Network Common Data Form (NetCDF) into its real-time smart data lake solution. The SBIR Program seeks to stimulate technological innovation and commercialization of federally funded research by small businesses. Under this...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $3,249,675 Project Grant under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021) to Salient Predictions Inc. The purpose of this 2-year grant is to develop technology for accurate subseasonal to seasonal (S2S) water availability forecasts. Salient Predictions plans to improve S2S weather forecasts and integrate them with the Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC) hydrological model to provide more...
This National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Project Grant award, with a total funding of $649,991, was made to Transcend Engineering And Technology, LLC (doing business as Transcend Engineering) to greatly reduce the cost of monitoring soil water content in highly resolved vertical profiles. The goal is to promote increased adoption of more efficient water management tools in permanent agriculture. The new multi-level soil...
The Aerodyne Research Inc. was awarded a $299,842 Project Grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research Program. The grant will fund the development of an in situ system to quantify dissolved greenhouse gases including nitrous oxide and methane in coastal ocean ecosystems from September 1, 2022 through February 28, 2023. Specifically, Aerodyne Research will design field deployable instrumentation for real-time measurements of...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded Hydrosat Inc. a $1,943,820 Phase II grant under the NOAA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (CFDA 11.021) to develop high spatiotemporal resolution global satellite thermal infrared data products. Through this project, Hydrosat aims to mature the commercial onramp of its cutting-edge thermal infrared data, which has demonstrated significant potential to improve uncertainty reduction and anomaly detection for applications in drought, agriculture, aquaculture, wildfire, and urban heat monitoring. The key objectives are to map user requirements, create data product delivery mechanisms, and quantitatively assess the utility of Hydrosat's thermal data across major institutional and commercial customers, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture and companies like 4EI and Suzano. This Phase II award builds on the success of Hydrosat's prior Phase I project, which helped scope the technical impacts and commercial opportunities of their high-resolution thermal satellite data.