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Space based and In-situ measurement of pre-season soil moisture and land surface temperature to estimate wildfire extent and risk
Award Year: 2024
UEI: VMASRMVXA3J3
HUBZone Owned: Yes
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: Yes
Congressional District: 11
Tagged as:
SBIR
Phase I
Awarding Agency
DOC
Branch: NOAA
Total Award Amount: $174,790
Contract Number: NA24OARX021G0005
Agency Tracking Number: 3217188
Solicitation Topic Code: 9.1
Solicitation Number: NOAA-OAR-TPO-2024-2008184
Abstract
Understanding the coupling among drought, water content of the soil, and forest fires is essential in the fire risk study framework. In this context, improved wildfires prediction tools, such as risk, severity, burnt area, are urgently needed and in this work, the use of remotely sensed and in-situ sensed Soil Moisture (SM) data, as well as Land Surface Temperature (LST) as key variables in the climate-wildfires relationship is explored. Therefore a vital need is to increase the quantity and quality of available information at relevant spatiotemporal scales, which will be accomplished through an integrated Space and Ground Sensing grid for estimating SM, LST, and other climate variables. Space data will consist of commercial data spanning Superspectral, Thermal IR, hyperspectral, SAR (microwave radar) as well as data provided by NASA Use of Funding: 1.Understand the relationship between soil moisture and land surface temperature on wildfire risk and burnt area through statistical and AI / Deep learning methods 2. Determine stakeholder information requirements 3. Develop a real-time simulation window to disseminate ensembled model results to the users. Deliverables: Analytical Software, Report & Training to Fire Agencies Target Markets : Power and Utilities, Insurance and Banking, Wildfire Agencies, Space Agencies, Government & Land Management. There are adjacent markets such as Agriculture, Meteorology, Military Mobility that will gain from the development of this subject.
Award Schedule
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2024
Solicitation Year -
2024
Award Year -
August 1, 2024
Award Start Date -
January 31, 2025
Award End Date
Principal Investigator
Name: Vivek Mital
Phone: 3477021659
Email: vivekmital180@gmail.com
Business Contact
Name: Vivek Mital
Phone: 3477021659
Email: vivekmital180@gmail.com
Research Institution
Name: N/A